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Step 3Build the wood desk frame
I am not going to describe in depth this part, partly because I did not take enough pictures and partly because my dad mostly did this part. My desk is constructed of lyptus, which i found out is a genetically modified combination of Eucalyptus and Mahogany. It has two shelf/drawer cabinets ant the ends supporting a center frame with a pencil drawer. The main structural parts of the desk are double thicknesses of solid wood. The cabinets are made of panels holding a piece of plywood to cut down on the amount of solid wood necessary for this project.
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No it is not, not by a long shot. First sentence from wikipedia:
"Lyptus is the trade name of a wood made from a hybrid of two species of Eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus urophylla." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyptus
There is no mahogany in there at all. Making hybrids is indeed modifying/mixing two genomes, but it is not genetic modification. Somehow, if you add one or a few genes it is very dangerous, but if you add whole or half genomes (== thousands of genes) it is not. Silly eco-religionists