More than $750 million a year is spend on pesticides in Canada
How many million dollars a year are spent on pesticides?
100
Monoculture is the cultivation of a single crop variety in a large area
What is Monoculture
200
Legumes are a group of specialized fruit producing plants and a major source of food.
What are legumes?
200
A clone is a genetically identical copy of an organism
What is clone?
200
Biological control is the use of a natural parasite, or predator to eliminate or control a pest
What is a biological control?
200
DDT is a very effective pesticide, and it was discovered that this chemical did not break down, instead it stayed in the environment
What is DDT?
300
Cutting is a section of a plant tissue capable of growing into a new plant
What is cutting?
300
Alfalfa was an important crop grown widely in the U.S. and Canada
What was an Alfalfa, and where was it mostly grown?
300
By using Agrobacterium tumefaciens, new DNS is introduced into a plant cell, which causes a tumour known as crown gall disease in some plants
What happens by using Agrobacterium tumefaciens?
300
Test tubes have a growth medium which contains hormones, and nutrients to help the cell grow and differentiate into seedlings
Give some information about test tubes.
400
A bud from a plant with a specific desired characteristics is grafted, or attached, to the rooted stem or root of another plant
What happens to a bud from a plant ?
400
By using Agrobacterium tumefaciens, new DNS is introduced into a plant cell, which causes a tumour known as crown gall disease in some plants
What happens by using Agrobacterium tumefaciens?
400
These three categories are parts that grow underground, parts that grow above, seeds and fruits of plants
List the three categories that edible parts of plants are categorized in.
400
Planting a single variety of crop may be disastrous, as the genetically identical plants may be able to resist a certain fungal or bacterial disease
Why is planting a single variety of crop disastrous?
500
Yields can be increased by removing insects and other organisms that feed on the plants, and removing weeds that compete with plant crops
What can yields be increased by?
500
Selective breeding is when human selection of certain individual organisms with desirable traits to breed and produce offspring with those traits, creating a new variety of a species.
What is selective breeding?
500
o Insecticides kill insects
o Fungicides kill fungi
o Herbicides kill specific plants
What do insecticides, fungicides and herbicides do?
500
GM plants are tested to ensure they will not have any adverse effects on humans before they are allowed on the marketplace?
What are GM plants tested for? (Find it in the Test book)