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Jumping Genes Are Fundamental Because They're Agents Of Change. Everybody Knows That Organisms Evolve. What Makes Them Evolve Is That Their Genes Are Dynamic And In Motion. A Familiar Example Is The Stripe-y Corn - Called Indian Corn - That You Buy In The Fall.

We've Gotten So Good At Growing Food That We've Gone, In A Few Generations, From Nearly Half Of Americans Living On Farms To 2 Percent. We No Longer Think About How The Wonderful Things In The Grocery Store Got There, And We'd Like To Go Back To What We Think Is A More Natural Way.

The More We Can Grow On Already Cultivated Land, The Better.

We Have Domesticated Crops Over A Very Long Period Of Time, Like Tens Of Thousands Of Years. And Crops Get - Seeds Get Carried. Sometimes, If They're Very Small Seeds, They Get Scattered Off Trucks. Pollen Travels.

In Agriculture, People Have Taken Wild Plants That Can't Be Eaten By People - And Turned Them Into Wonderful Food Sources. And That's Because Genomes Can Change, And People Working With Plants Have Picked Mutations. Mutations Are Nothing More Than Genetic Changes.