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3) How can agricultural biotechnology have a positive impact on the environment?

• By developing crops that are pest resistant requiring fewer pesticides to be used.

• planting crops in shaded areas.

• Harvesting crops that have thick stems and leaves.

• water crops with a recycled irrigation system.

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4) How can using genetically engineered crops impact North Carolina’s economy?

• Improve quality of farm equipment.

• Decreased availability of productive land.

• Decreased food production and more debt for farmers.

• Increased food production and income for the farmers.

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6) What type of job would a person who studied biotechnology in college be likely to have?

• A job making medicines

• A job studying stars.

• A job studying the physical features on Earth.

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9) What are some examples of biotechnology being used in agriculture?

• Crop irrigation

• DNA fingerprinting

• Gentically modified crops

• Crop rotation

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10) How does the biotechnology industry benefit North Carolina?

• Many new, high paying jobs are created

• The average salary of the worker in NC decreased.

• New technologies being developed are too expensive for people here to afford.

• State budget increases from the construction of new facilities.

12) What would be a negative side of genetically modified foods?

• Lower cost of production.

• Long-term health effects, such as possible allergies to proteins not found in foods before GMO’s.

• Ability to produce more food in less time.

• Ability to grow more nutritious food in less time.

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13) What would increase the money made by farmers in North Carolina through biotechnology?

• Tomatoes that are different in color.

• Tomatoes that are smaller.

• Tomatoes that taste the same.

• Tomatoes that are resistant to disease.

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All of the following are benefits of GMOs except

• pest resistant crops

• unknown long term health effects

• more nutritional foods

• creating more human insulin

Which area of biotechnology would most likely create ethical issues with human society?

• Insulin producing bacteria

• Organ cloning for transplants

• Genetic engineering to improve agricultural yields.

• DNA and forensic testing of crime scene evidence

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Which careers are most closely related to biotechnology?

• Construction and engineering

• Water treatment and electricity generation

• Medicine and agriculture

• Communication and information technology

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