John B. wrote:

(...)

I'm still puzzled. A carrot isn't a carrot any more?

Most of the several hundred varieties of carrots are
products of natural selection or 'traditional' hybridization.
There are genetically modified carrots proposed which
are 'carrots' in the same way that a GMO supermarket tomato
is a 'tomato'.

--Winston --Tasteless, thick - skinned (and crunchy).