Aest Biotechnology

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.

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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Which suspect was most likely present at the crime scene?

• Suspect 1

• Suspect 2

• Suspect 3

• None of them match

Which are most closely related to biotechnology?

• medicine and agriculture

• construction and engineering

• water treatment and electricity generation

• communication and information technology

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Which is most important when investigating ethical issues in biotechnology?

• cost of the technology

• advantage of the technology

• public opinion of the technology

• benefits of the technology outweighing the harm

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Tomatoes are genetically modified to have a longer shelf-life. Which best describes a concern people have with eating GM tomatoes?

• GM tomatoes do not taste as good as organic

• GM tomatoes are more expensive

• the DNA used to modify the tomatoes could change the DNA of the person eating the tomato

• GM tomatoes ripen and rot more quickly

Which of the following is the process of using technology to create or modify living things?

• Biotechnology

• GMO

• Pest resistant crops

• Transpiration

Which of the following is a product made by biotechnology

• Bread

• Cheese

• Penicillin

• All of these

Who is dolly the sheep?

• A cloned sheep

• A ordinary sheep

• I don't know

Plants that have been genetically modified so that certain insects are toxic to it.

• GMO

• Pest resistant crops

• Biotechnology

• I don't know

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