Most biofuels schemes entail some plant or algae using photosynthesis to create a sugar that is transformed into fuel either by the organism or after the plant is harvested.

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The degree of regulation should be proportionate to the perceived risk of the new organism, which is a function of certain characteristics of the host plant, such as weediness, toxicity, ability to outcross, etc.

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An organism's genes--the entire recipe book that explains whether a cell is part of a plant, a moth, a mouse or a person--are written in code on strands of DNA inside the cell called chromosomes.

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