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Food Facts - CRISPR

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Published: October 22, 2019

| Taken from the Institute of Food Technologists

CRISPR is a defining feature of the bacterial genetic code and its immune system, functioning as a defense system that bacteria use to protect themselves against attacks from viruses. The acronym “CRISPR” stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.