The movement of the lips, tongue, jaw, and other organs to produce speech sounds is known as articulation. A subfield of phonetics known as articulatory phonetics studies articulation and the manner in which humans generate speech. The field illustrates how speech sounds are produced by humans with the help of the association of various physiological structures.
Doesn’t matter if it takes hundreds of years or a couple weeks, if there is an intent to alter the genes of an organism to select for desired traits, it is genetic engineering.
