Silent Spring/DDT
Author of Silent Spring that started the process of questioning DDT.
Who is Rachel Carson?
These are the ways a person can become exposed to DDT.
What is breathing, eating, or touching contaminated areas?
This component is what you typically think of for care of a home garden.
What are cultural practices?
This is what GMOs stand for.
What is Genetically Modified Organisms?
Pruning, watering, soil care, fertilizing.
What is cultural practice?
This is when DDT was devoloped.
What is WWII?
The purpose of DDT.
This is the purpose of IPM.
What is preventative measures against pests, using multiple methods of control?
This is the farming practice GMOs are based on with the added step of years of natural growth.
What is selective breeding? (artificial selection will be accepted)
This component involves the use of other organisms to contain or kill your pests.
What are biological controls?
This is where DDT stores itself in the body.
What is Fatty Tissue?
DDT converts to this when in the body.
What is DDE?
This component utilizes pesticides as a last resort.
What are chemical controls?
An organism that has received DNA from within its species.
What is Cisgenic?
This is an example discussed in class of a transgenic GMO that has pharmaceutical benefits.
What are bioluminescent pigs?
This is the length of time that DDT stays in an environment.
What is 2-15 year half-life in soil and 150 year half-life in aquatic environments?
This is the half life of DDT in aquatic environments.
What is 150 years?
This component will involve non-living methods of prevention of pests.
What is mechanical control?
An organism that has received DNA from an organism outside its species.
What is transgenic?
Conventional farming utilizes pesticides for pest control. This would fall under this component of IPM.
What is chemical control?
This prompted the author of "Silent Spring" to write her book.
What is Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane?
You demonstrate this component when you put up a small fence around your apple tree.
What is mechanical control?
The amount of products in the United states that are GMO.
What is 90% of soy, corn, cotton, sugar, canola?
An example of this GMO would be an apple has been given DNA from humans to develop legs.
What is transgenic?