Ch. 12.4 GMO's, Organics, Food Security

What is food biotechnology?

• Adding chemicals to foods to preserve them.
• Making synthetic foods using artificial, man-made proteins.
• Inserting a gene with a beneficial trait into a plant cell.
• Taking immature plants and adding steroids to make them grow bigger and stronger.

What carries the code that tells a plant what color it will be or how it will taste?

• Corm
• Stem
• Flower
• Gene

What is a GMO?

• An organism with foreign DNA
• An organism missing genes
• Epigenetics
• A genetically identical organism

Current U.S. law requires labeling on all GMO products.

• True
• False

GMO stands for 

• Genetically modified organism
• Genetically made organism
• Generally made organ
• Generically moderated organism

GMOs can be 

• plants only
• animals only
• plant and animal
• none of these

Which are 2 of the top 4 GMO crops?

• Tomatoes and peppers
• Wheat and barley
• Kale and spinach
• Soy and corn

What percent of corn grown in the US is GMO?

• 70
• 80
• 90
• 85

Insecticide producing seeds

• produce toxins that kill insects
• are resistant to insecticides
• Are coated with insecticides