GMOs/Farming Practices

Which term refers to a farmer choosing the best corn from this year to plant next year?

• natural selection
• selective breeding
• genetic engineering
• genetic transformation

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

• Foods with higher quantities
• Organisms with more fur
• Foods or organiisms with DNA modified in a way that doesn't occur naturally
• Food and organisms that have been injected with hormones

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Large countries like China need GMO's to keep up with its rapid growing population.

• True 
• False

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Which country does not have GMO's banned?

• Japan
• United States
• Australia
• Europe

A negative of GMOs is that

• They are creating herbicide tolerant crops.

• There is insufficient research to know the long term impacts they may have.

• There is higher crop production.

• They require fewer materials to grow crops.

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What does monoculture mean?

• A game to acquire as much money and property as possible

• The growing of multiple crops in one particular area

• The growing of multiple types of animals in one particular area

• The growing of a single crop in one particular area

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Traditional farmers grow several crops on the same plot of land in a practice referred to as

• monoculture
• polyculture
• aquaculture
• slash and burn

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Repeated application of irrigated water in dry climates leads to...

• a drop in productivity of the land by more than 10%, leading to desertification
• a build up of nutrients, leading to increased levels of erosion
• a build up of salts in the soil, leading to salinization
• decreased phosphorus and nitrogen, leading to eutrophication

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The use of synthetic fertilizers can increase crop yield, but also

• destroy nitrifying bacteria in the soil
• increase nutrient runoff into nearby surface waters
• slow the release of organic nutrients from compost
• increase fish populations in nearby streams

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One of the advantages of Polyculture is that it

• reduces pests and weeds

• is more labor intensive

• maximizes efficiency

• simplifies production

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