READING AND COMPREHENSION

1.-WHAT THE SCIENTIST USE TO MODIFICATE FOOD CROPS?

• genetic

  modification

• genes

• characteristics

  grows

• food crops

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2.-WHAT ARE GENES?

• are living things

• are seed's genetic codes

• are instruction codes that all living things have inside or their cells

• are instruction codes

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3.-WHAT THE FARMERS DO TO MAKE CROPS?

• by advances in gene

• By crossbreeding plants

• they add pollen from the sweetest melon plants to the flower.

• by science

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4.-WHAT A SEED'S GENETIC DO?

• sets what characteristics it will inherit when it grows into a plant

• made crops better

• crossbreeding plants

• produced melons

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5.-THE SCIENTIST PUT A GENE FROM ONE LIVING THING TO ANOTHER

(VIRUS, BACTERIA) THESE FOOD ARE CALLED.....

• GM

• foods

• genetically

  modified

• crops

6.-WHAT IS THE GOAL OF GM?

• create food

  that can survive insects.

• create food that can grow fast.

• create food.

• create virus, bacteria.

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7.-WHY THE FARMERS USE BT CORN?

• FOR THE CROPS CAN GROW

• FOR THE RESISTANCE

• FOR INSECTS

• FOR VIRUS

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8.-ONE EXAMPLE OF A SUPER FOOD IS A GOLDEN RICE WHO HAS BEEN MODIFIED WITH.......

• bacterium

  daffodils

• one gene

• three different genes

• blindness

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9.-THE SALMON IS ONE OF SUPER FOOD. WHAT THE SCIENTIEST DO TO CREATE A SUPERSIZED ?

• change the gene to controls growth

• add fish

• add genes

• add phytic acid

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10.- WHY PEOPLE DISAGREED WITH G.M?

• they worry about food growing

• they worry about the genes

• they worry will hurt the environment and humans

• they worry about the humans and the world

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