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HELP 50 POINTS Imagine that you are an owner of an orchard. Could you use the genetics of the fruit flies to get rid of fruit flies that were damaging your crops in an orchard?

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yes , it is possible through genetic engineering, but as orchard is in open, it will not work 100%, because from surrounding still it will get new fruit flies.

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in theory yes but at the same time you would have to reverse enginere it and have it reject the fruit flys dna strands

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