Scientists have been able to inject the firefly's lighting gene into a tobacco plant, allowing it to glow. Which type of organism is this tobacco plant?

A transgenic organism has genetic material from another organism inserted into its DNA. Here, the tobacco plant received the firefly’s lighting gene, so it is a transgenic organism. A recombinant organism is a broader term for an organism with DNA combined from different sources, but “transgenic” is the specific choice for this example.

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