Monsanto
Growing Populations/The Green Revolution
Cross Pollination/Patents
Consequences
Misc
100
The year the original Monsanto was founded
What is 1901
100
Two reasons for population growth
What is advances in technology/medicine, sanitation improvements, water improvements
100
Number of employees dedicated to the investigation and persecution of farmers who violate infringement rules
What is 75+
100
Two out of the three related Monsanto agricultural products
What is Pest/weed control, biotechnology, GMO seeds
100
How Monsanto contributed to Prop 37
What is lobbying against the bill by contributing $7.1 million
200
Why 700 farmers have settled out of court against Monsanto
What is Not enough money/Monsanto has too much power
200
The year populations are expected to peak
What is 2050
200
Two natural ways plants can be pollinated.
What is bees and wind
200
The branch of the government a former Monsanto employee is currently serving in
What is Judiciary (Supreme Court) Justice Clarence Thomas
200
How Bowman infringed upon Monsanto's patent
What is Bowman was using second and third generation Monsanto seeds from a grain elevator to farm
300
The difference between biotechnology and genetic engineering
What is the manipulation of a natural biological process and the manipulation of genes
300
The first two crops of the green revolution
What is wheat and rice
300
Why Monsanto sues farmers
What is a business needs to be paid for its products, loss of profit would decrease ability to do research and development, unfair to other farmers
300
Tomato farmers are being forced out of business because of what company's 3000th opening in New Delhi?
What is Dominos
300
How Schmeiser infringed upon Monsanto's patent
What is Percy Schmeiser was accused of growing second generation seeds that contained Monsanto’s round-up ready gene.
400
Four of Monsanto's core crops
What is sugarbeets, corn, wheat, canola, cotton, sorghum, alfalfa, soybeans
400
Why the USA promoted the green revolutions package to developing nations
What is to solidify their alliances during the cold war and promote capitalism
400
Two reasons organic farmers suffer from cross-pollination
What is not able to sell their crops due to traces of non-organic crops, developed seed varities ruined, getting sued for cross pollination
400
Problems with Round up?
What is excess nitrogen in watersheds, super pest and weeds, possible health hazards
400
Monsanto's first herbicide
What is 2,4D
500
How Monsanto 'conserves land'
What is biotechnology allows for more crops on a smaller piece of land therefore saving land.
500
The three cycles of growing populations
What is high birth/high death rates, high birth/low death rates, low birth/low death rates
500
The first patented seed
What is the soybean
500
Death rates of male and female rats
What is 50% and 70%
500
The power structure in feudalistic agriculture
What is peasants grew food and supplied it to the lord who may need to supply to those higher in the hierarchy
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