Biotechnology

How can agricultural biotechnology have a positive impact on the environment?

• By developing crops that are pest resistant requiring fewer pesticides to be used.

• planting crops in shaded areas.

• Harvesting crops that have thick stems and leaves.

• water crops with a recycled irrigation system.

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What type of job could a person who studies biotechnology in college have?

• Create new medicines and vaccines

• Create disease/pest resistant crop varieties

• Work in a forensic lab testing crime scene evidence

• Create environmentally friendly ways to clean up pollution

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What are some examples of biotechnology being used in agriculture?

• Crop irrigation

• DNA fingerprinting

• Gentically modified crops

• Crop rotation

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What would be a negative side of genetically modified foods?

• Lower cost of production.

• Long-term health effects, such as possible allergies to proteins not found in foods before GMO’s.

• Ability to produce more food in less time.

• Ability to grow more nutritious food in less time.

What would increase the money made by farmers in North Carolina through biotechnology?

• Tomatoes that are different in color.

• Tomatoes that are smaller.

• Tomatoes that taste the same.

• Tomatoes that are resistant to disease.

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Which suspect was most likely present at the crime scene?

• Suspect 1

• Suspect 2

• Suspect 3

• None of them match

Which are most closely related to biotechnology?

• medicine and agriculture

• construction and engineering

• water treatment and electricity generation

• communication and information technology

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Which is most important when investigating ethical issues in biotechnology?

• cost of the technology

• advantage of the technology

• public opinion of the technology

• benefits of the technology outweighing the harm

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Supercow was created using which field of biotechnology?

• DNA Fingerprinting

• Cloning

• Artificial Selection

• Selective Breeding

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Tomatoes are genetically modified to have a longer shelf-life. Which best describes a concern people have with eating GM tomatoes?

• GM tomatoes do not taste as good as organic

• GM tomatoes are more expensive

• the DNA used to modify the tomatoes could change the DNA of the person eating the tomato

• GM tomatoes ripen and rot more quickly