Food Borne Illnesses
Federal agency that investigates outbreaks of food borne illnesses and other diseases
What is the CDC?
Occurs when diet lacks appropriate nutrients
What is malnutrition?
The amount of food produced per unit area
What is yield?
Banned substance in the US, used in the 1940's against malaria-carrying mosquitoes
What is DDT?
Genetically Modified Organism
When companies tell the public to either throw away or return food to the store due to deaths or possible contamination
This condition can lead to stunted growth and learning disabilities
What is plowing?
Chemicals that kill pests
What are pesticides?
Plant that was selectively breed to make kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts
What is the Wild Mustard Plant?
Examples are young children, elderly, pregnant women, and the immune repair
Who is most at risk for contracting a food borne illness ?
or
Who are people with weak immune systems?
External forces that can lead to starvation and malnutrition in a country
What is war and poor transportation systems?
Thing that farmers used to begin the Green Revolution
What is new varieties of grain?
percentage of crops destroyed by pests in North America
What is 13 percent?
When farmers cross two plants with desirable traits
What is selective breeding?
This bacterium helps breakdown food during digestion
What is E. coli/
Number of food insecure people in the world
What is 2 billion?
Layer of soil that is made of rock articles, water, air, and organic matter
What is top soil?
When pests evolve the ability to tolerate a particular pesticide
Method that relies on the physical traits and the genetic variation already in the genome of an organism
What is selective breeding?
Cows who eat corn have a more_________ gut
What is acidic?
State that grows the most food in the US
What is California?
Living things in soil that decompose organic matter
What is fungi and bacteria?
Term that describes how toxin concentration increases at the higher levels of the food chain
What is biomagnification?
When organism's DNA has been changed so that it has genes not normally found there
What is genetic engineering?