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anu when visited a super market was surprised to c yellow,green and red capsicum available in the stalls. it was the drastic change in quality and quantity of capsicum.

  1. what was this change?
  2. how r such crops produced?

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1. This type of drastic change is a genetic change. This involves change in the genetic makeup of an organism.
2. These types of crops are produced by genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is the process in which the gene for a particular character is introduced inside the chromosome of a plant cell (or individual). The introduction of this gene in the individual leads to the production of a transgenic plant.Such a transgenic plant exhibits the character of the newly introduced gene.

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