Background
What does GMO stand for?
What is Genetically Modified Organism
This environmental benefit associated with GMOs saves farmers money and reduces their need to till soil to control the weeds.
What is a reduced need for pesticide
What technology or techniques are used for GMOs?
What is recombinant DNA
What country produces the most genetically modified crops annually?
What is the United States
Which three agencies control the regulation of GMOs?
What are the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA - APHIS), The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
What is the most widely cultivated GMO crop?
What is wheat
Name an environmental cost associated with genetically modified crops?
What is decreases genetic diversity
What is one medical use for GMOs that grows transplant tissues or human transplant organs?
What is xenotransplantation
How many countries have banned GMOs?
What is Twenty-Six
What type of food requires regulation by all three regulatory agencies?
What is transgenic foods
Which decade did the first genetically modified crop, the Flavr Savr tomato, hit the market?
What is the 1990's
How common are GMOs?
What is 80% of packaged products at a US supermarket
Which GMO plant created a controversy after its side effects, which produced a protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, were harmful to monarch caterpillar populations?
What is Bt corn
Which UN Global Goal could GMOs potentially help to solve?
What is "Zero Hunger"
What percentage of corn, soybeans, and sugar beets on the market are GMOs?
What is 90
What government agency in the United States regulates genetically modified organisms?
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
What are the main issues of concern for human health?
What are allergenicity, toxicity, gene transfer
What is one possible danger of GMOs due to them using genes from other organisms?
What is unexpected allergic reactions in people who consume them
What are the three basic traits of GM crops currently on the international market?
What is:
1. Resistance to insect damage.
2. Tolerance to herbicides.
3. Resistance to plant viruses.
What aspect of GMO regulation is the FDA responsible for?
what is regulating the safety of GM crops that are eaten by animals or humans
Which international organization provides guidelines and regulations for the trade of genetically modified organisms?
What is the World Trade Organization
Which effect is associated with GMOs' affect on insecticide use and subsequent farmer pesticide use?
What is the "Halo Effect"
What is one tool used by scientists to create GMOs?
What is CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)
What possibly carcinogenic chemical do GMOs account for 50% global use of?
What is glyphosate
Under what law must all GMOs be labeled in the United States?
What is the USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS)