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For some people it is a popular herb added in food for flavour, but for others it tastes like soap due to a mutation in OR6A2 receptor. The herb is:
Explanation
Mechanistically, metabolic engineering and inheritance involves exogenous gene introduction and pathway extension enable trait improvement. This validates Cilantro because it demonstrates metabolic extension and combinatorial biosynthesis, a pattern repeatedly demonstrated in genetics and biotechnology research.
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