The "franken" is a reference to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," which is about the creation of something new and unnatural that consumes the life of its creator.
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frankenfoods are a colloquial term for foods that are transgenic. Meaning that some genes from two different organisms have been combined into an organism which did not have both to being with. An example would be a soybean modified with the HaHB4 transcription factor from a sunflower in order to increase tolerance to drought
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