Norman Borlaug
What prestigious prize did Borlaug win in 1970?
Nobel Peace Prize
How many lives has the Green Revolution been estimated to save?
1 billion or more
What effect has the Green Revolution had on the amount of food that is wasted?
In genetics, what is the opposite of dominant?
recessive
Where did Flossie Wong-Staal grow up?
Hong Kong
In what country did Borlaug do his main research on wheat?
Mexico
What effect has Green Revolution technology had on food prices?
Food prices have decreased.
Besides fertilizer, what other sort of chemicals are needed to produce high yields using Green Revolution technology?
Pesticides
If a plant has yellow flowers, what do we know about the genes it inherited from its parents?
It inherited a yellow flower gene from each of its parents.
What college did George Washington Carver teach at?
Tuskegee Institute
wrestling
How has Green Revolution technology affected where food can be grown?
Green Revolution technology depends on abundant irrigation. What is the word for an underground reservoir of water that is often tapped for irrigation?
Aquifer
Can a plant with red flowers and a plant with yellow flowers produce a plant with yellow flowers? Explain your answer.
Yes, if one parent has one red and one yellow gene and the other parent has two yellow genes, half of their offspring will have yellow flowers.
What type of virus is HIV?
retrovirus
When he was a teenager, what invention transformed life for farming families like Borlaug's, and who invented it?
Tractor, Henry Ford
How has Green Revolution technology helped to save wild places?
Because it takes less land to grow food, wild land does not have to be converted into farmland.
The crops that are grown do not produce seeds that can be planted for another harvest. It means that farmers have to buy new seeds each year.
What does GMO stand for?
Genetically modified organism
What is the small space between two nerve cells called?
synapse
Borlaug said that his achievements were only providing a brief window of time during which the world had to solve what problem?
Out-of-control population growth
Green Revolution technology has reduced the need for fallowing. What does this mean?
Not cultivating fields every season, but letting a field rest once every few years so it recovers nutrients.
Name two ways that Green Revolution technology has disrupted local cultures and traditions.
The Green Revolution has
- replaced traditional food crops with new crops
- eliminated small family farms as huge industrial farms have taken over
- resulted in millions of families moving from rural areas to cities
Two plants that each have one red flower gene and one yellow flower gene are crossed. The seeds from their offspring are then planted. Out of 100 new plants, how many would you expect to have yellow flowers?
25
Carver suggested that Alabama farmers plant peanuts because he knew that peanuts would put what nutrient back into the soil?
nitrogen