GMO Crops
The science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce certain desirable characteristics.
What is plant breeding?
The number of parts in a flower.
What is four?
Any one of the three plant fibers we covered in class.
What is cotton, industrial hemp, or flax?
The combination of geographic information systems and global positioning systems.
What is precision agriculture?
The crop Dr. Beasley worked with before coming to Auburn University.
What are peanuts?
The number of commercially available GMO crops.
What is ten?
The male reproductive organ of a plant.
What is a stamen?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The GPS used to implement precision agriculture decisions on physical machinery.
What is cotton?
The largest-acreage GMO crop in the United States.
What is Corn?
The plant stem that grows horizontally along the surface of the ground.
What is a stolon?
The plant fiber that can be used to make cigarette paper and currency.
What is flax?
The company that produced the first multi-hybrid planter.
What is Kinze?
The plant discussed during the greenhouse tour that is the only food source for monarch butterflies.
What is milkweed?
The year the first genetically modified food was sold.
What is 1994?
A flower that contains both male and female reproductive organs in the same flower.
What is a perfect flower?
The top cotton-producing state in the United States.
What is Texas?
The most accurate form of auto-guidance for tractors.
What is RTK?
The most important nutrient to plant life.
What is nitrogen?
The genetically modified papaya variety that saved Hawaii's papaya industry.
What is Rainbow Papaya?
The green, leafy structures that serve as a means of protection for a flower.
What are sepals?
The common time for starting to plant cotton.
What is mid-April?
The ability of equipment to automatically turn off/on to prevent overlap.
What is section/row control?
The crop produced in the largest quantity in Alabama in 2018.
What is cotton?