"I'm from Wisconsin. I haven't had proper beer in a really long time."
He glanced up for a moment, trying to work out how to explain the concept. Eventually he said, "I don't know how much science you know, necessarily. I assume you're familiar with breeding animals or plants for desired traits, though. Genetic engineering is a scientific way of planting the part of an animal or plant's makeup that causes it to have a certain trait into a different animal or plant, so that the next generation carries that trait. Or to simply alter the thing's genetic material directly so that the result is new traits, or the eradication of old ones. Upping milk yield on cattle, adding disease resistance to wheat, that kind of thing- that's the mild end of the scale. They'd have to do a hell of a lot more than that to get a tree with beer in its sap or fruit or whatever the can pods would be."
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He glanced up for a moment, trying to work out how to explain the concept. Eventually he said, "I don't know how much science you know, necessarily. I assume you're familiar with breeding animals or plants for desired traits, though. Genetic engineering is a scientific way of planting the part of an animal or plant's makeup that causes it to have a certain trait into a different animal or plant, so that the next generation carries that trait. Or to simply alter the thing's genetic material directly so that the result is new traits, or the eradication of old ones. Upping milk yield on cattle, adding disease resistance to wheat, that kind of thing- that's the mild end of the scale. They'd have to do a hell of a lot more than that to get a tree with beer in its sap or fruit or whatever the can pods would be."