Genetic Engineering

Companies that create GMOs can patent genes and DNA sequences.

• True
• False

Biotech foods look and taste the same as traditional foods and crops. The only difference is that biotech food has

• fewer calories.
• the addition of specific minerals.
• genes with traits that improve something about the plant.
• a better chance of surviving a frost during the growing season.

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What is plant biotechnology?

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

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An argument in favor of food biotechnology is that it

• provides foods that cure disease.
• provides more food to feed a growing population.
• provides a cash crop for low income nations.
• biotech foods are not controversial

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What is a GMO?

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

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What are genetically modified (GM) organisms and GM foods?

• Foods or organisms with better taste
• Foods or organisms grown in the USA, only
• Foods or organisms with DNA modified in a way that doesn't occur naturally
• Food and organisms that have been injected with hormones

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85% of the corn grown in the U.S. is a GMO.

• True

• False

GMO's are more beneficial to large-scale industrial farmers in "developed" nations.

• True

• False

Advantages of genetically modified crops include(s)

• insect resistance
• drought/freeze resistance
• higher yield
• all of these are reasons for using GMOs

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Concerns about genetically modified organisms include(s)

• risk to human health
• may be harmful to ecosystems
• seed/pollen drift to organic farms
• all of these are valid concerns

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