Biotech Review

Which improvement to agriculture is most likely a result of biotechnology?

• increased land

• increased fertilizer

• increased productivity

• increased demand for crops

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How does biotechnology most likely affect North Carolina's population?

• jobs are created and attract more people to the area

• research advancement causes people in need of medicines to move to the area

• People are not concerned with biotechnology so the overall population is not impacted

• The issue causes controversy and people hesitate to live in a state where a large amount of research takes place.

How does biotechnology most benefit the economy of North Carolina?

• creation of jobs

• creation of plants

• creation of medicines

• creation of transgenic species

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Which person would benefit most from biotechnology?

• a cook

• a farmer

• an architect

• an automobile engineer

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Which would most likely result in the largest economic benefit to NC?

• NC partnering with farers for use of agricultural biotechnology

• NC being a lead consumer state in pharmaceutical manufacturing

• NC making the world's best-trained work force from biomanufacturing

• NC making a long-standing commitment to biotechnology development

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Biotechnology is the manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful, usually commercial products.

• True

• False

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GMO stands for

• Genetically Made Organism
• Growing More Organisms
• Genetically Modified Organism
• Growing Many Organisms

All of the following are advantages of GMO's except

• pest resistant crops
• more nutritional foods
• unknown long term health effects
• creating more human insulin

The Aztecs and Mayans of Mexico were some of the first humans to slowly change wild "corn" to the corn we know today. What process did these tribes use?

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection- selective breeding

• Mitosis

• Cell Membrane

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Stem cells ______________.

• May become any type of cell
• Are immune to cancer
• Divide rapidly
• Can cure disease

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