What is a transgenic?

Image 4.1. gold rice 

transgenic plant.

Is an individual whose genome has been modified through genetic engineering, to introduce new genes or to modify the function of an own gene. Due to this modification the transgenic plant shows a new characteristic. Once carried out the insertion or modification of the gene, this expresses, and transmites itself to the offspring as one more gene of the individual. In concrete, in transgenic plants this genetic modification is performed in a coontrolled way that only affects a reduced number of well known genes. As a result of this fact, the transgenic variety don't differ much from none transgenic ones.

Image 4.2. Photo taken by me of a crop of transgenic plants resistant to a virus which has been tested by putting the virus in the atmosphere, hence, showing wich plants has acquired the gene (red) and which not, and are dying (yellow).