Who is the creator of Nutritionally enhanced crops
100
TRUE/FALSE
GMOs have a negative affect on poultry and livestock production.
FALSE
100
What are being experimented by major food companies?
Humans
100
TRUE/FALSE: the FDA says that genetically engineered crops are recognized as unsafe
FALSE
100
Messenger molecule
What is mRNA?
200
Maize, Wheat, Apples and Rice.
Which does not belong in the list?
APPLES.
maize, wheat and rice are modified foods.
200
Manipulation of levels of proteins and amino acids, fats and oils, vitamins and minerals, carbohydrates and fiber quality as well as decreasing the levels of undesirable compounds in major feed crops
What is the target of nutrition enhancement?
200
TRUE/FALSE GMOs cause create new allergies in humans
TRUE
200
What does FDA stand for?
Food and Drug Administration
200
The study and manipulation of living things or their component molecules, cells, tissues, or organs
What is Biotechnology?
300
What year did nutritionally enhanced foods appear?
1960
300
Foods have been modified to make them more resistant to insect pesticides.
What increases revenue for farmers?
300
Genetically modified ingredients can cause _________.
cancer
300
Genetically engineered foods are equivalent to conventionally produced foods using the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology.
What is the FDA stance on nutritionally enhanced foods?
300
It makes proteins that allow the bacteria to enter a plant cell.
What a Ti plasmid?
400
Defined in the legislation as an organism, with the exception of human beings, in which "the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.
What is a GMO?
400
TRUE/FALSE corn is the most important and widely grown grain in the United States.
TRUE
400
TRUE/FALSE
GMOs benefit the health of livestock and .
FALSE
400
What does EPA and USDA stand for?
Environmental Protection Agency and United States Department of Agriculture.
400
What does Hepatitis B target?
the liver
500
Plasmid DNA containing new genes can be inserted into the bacterial cell and the bacteria will then express those genes.
How is the gene inserted into the organism?
500
TRUE/FALSE
GMO's have harmful affects on the environment
FALSE
Foods can be engineered to be pest-resistant, decreasing the amounts of toxic chemical pesticides that need to be applied to plants and crops
500
FREE 500 POINTS
FREE 500 POINTS
500
MINUS 500 POINTS
MINUS 500 POINTS
500
-DNA is unwound
-RNA polymerase attaches to promoter at the beginning of a gene
- builds nucleic acid chain (mRNA)