Usage
- Some conservation biologists and conservationists have used genetic pollution for a number of years as a term to describe gene flow (which they disapprove of) from a domestic, feral, non-native or invasive species to a wild indigenous population.
- The term is of late being associated with the gene flow from a genetically engineered (GE) organism to a non GE organism, frequently by those disapproving of such gene flow.
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