they didnt take genes from anything tho Dan, they fed the plants small amounts of the herbicide until it no longer responded to it, and could tolerate all of the bad in it, to inevitably "help" it...

kinda like us and DPT and Flu shots and whatnot...

then, they took those plants, and bred them with regular plants, to produce huge crops, but also be resistant to herbicides...

just like they took Cannabis Ruderalis, and cross pollinated it with Cannabis Indica, and Cannabis Sativa, to produce a plant that didnt need the 12/12 light cycle, but automatically flowers during its plant cycle, even tho the lights are on 24 hours a day....

its breeding... the pollen has to come from a specific species in order to pollinate, meaning you cant take a Apple trees pollen, and cross it with wheat, and get Apple flavored Wheaties, it doesnt work that way... it has to come from the same species in order to work, and that all boils down to breeding... but yes, there were "engineers" that started the process... if you want to call them engineers... i call them people that dont give a fvck about the Earth, and only about money in their pockets...