WorksheetsExam 2
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
Seed banks are important for ________.
agricultral investments in develping countries
protecting monoculture productivity
protecting genetic diversity
providing loans
During the past half-century, global food production has ________ world population growth.
grown at a faster rate than
fallen
stayed even with
surpassed
________ composes/compose just over half of all of the world's GM crops.
Corn
Cotton
Soybeans
Tomatoes
Transport of airborne toxicants, a specific problem in agricultural environments, is called pesticide transposition.
True
False
What do researchers hope to accomplish by performing genetic analyses on confiscated ivory?
They hope to learn more about the extent of inbreeding of elephants in different areas of Africa.
They hope to determine whether the ivory came from elephants or from seals.
.They hope to determine where the elephants were poached.
They hope to determine how long ago each animal was killed for its ivory.
Biodiversity enhances human food security because it ________.
creates genetic uniformity
reduces the number of pollinators available to any one plant species
decreases the number of predators
is a potential source of new foods or new varieties of existing foods
A person is more likely to die of ________ than any other cause.
old age
cardiovascular disease
starvation
infectious disease
