10SCIE Biology 1.2 Assessment
Biological Idea 1
Genetically modified foods are altered so that there are genes within them which are not normally found in their organic counterpart. These crops have benefits such as reducing the need to use pesticides which differ from normal organic crops which highly depend on them. For example, a GMO's called BT-Corn has built in bacteria called Bacillus Thuringeinsis (BT) which produces a crystal protein that acts as a pesticide within the crop's cells. The protein is selective and is toxic to harmful pests but to many beneficial species such as bees and butterflies, are harmless. When the protein is produced, as soon as a pest ingests a sector of the plant containing it, the pest will die within hours.
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We can modified certain genes by using a genetic engineering method 'exon skipping'. This is where a desired gene is inserted into the organism's DNA to skip over specific sectors which are ignored during protein production. A special strand of DNA 'antisense oligonucleotide' is the mechanism which allows some sectors of the protein producing DNA to be ignored by binding to messenger RNA which alter the way some proteins are produced. The production of different proteins in a particular GMO can solve many allergy problems. An allergic reaction is when lymphocytes overreact when recognising an allergen, such as the proteins in egg, where it rapidly produces antibodies. When too many antibodies are produced, enzymes are created to fight the infection. This begins to cause many symptoms such as minor itchiness and runny noses to more serious cases of vomiting or the worst case, anaphylactic shock. When genetic engineering can alter the genes that produce a certain allergen, people who are allergic to egg could eat it if that particular allergen is replaced, meaning they can eat egg without a problem. Genetic engineering allows people with allergies to eat foods that they are normally allergic to because the newly produced proteins do not trigger the lymphocytes to
“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man,” George Washington. Agriculture has been around for 12,000, this changed the lifestyle of people from hunting and gathering to permanent settlements with a steady food source (“Development of Agriculture”). From this, civilizations and cities grew, food could now be grown to meet the demands of the ever growing global populations. Since the development of agriculture advancement has been made to feed the population. One of the many modern advancements has been genetically modified organisms. Genetically Modified Organism, is the results of a laboratory process, where genes from the DNA of one of the species are extracted, and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal. Some of the unanswered questions about GMO’s have been what they are, companies that are involved,
Advancements in technology have boosted our abilities to travel. It is now normal to travel large distances when before most people would have never left their home state or town. Now because of globalization we have billions of people traveling every year to different parts of the world twentyfour seven. This huge and drastic change in lifestyle is what gives globalization its edge, it has allowed boundaries to be crossed when before they were no physical ways to travel large distances. This has helped create the very integrated societies of today. One downfall is that where people roam so do their illnesses, stager in behind them.
GMOs have a positive impact on humans and keep us very healthy. GMOs can help you by giving different types of nutritions. GMOs can also help food sustain more longer than non GMOs while growing crops. With this being said, GMOs can possibly change our lives around. People have been consuming food containing GMOs for a good 100 years now. It wouldn't make sense if people stopped eat the foods that were genetically modified instead of being natural. Though in reality, GMOs are more positive than being negative.
The pros into having a genetically modified system of foods to plant around the world is mainly said that it’s the best and safest way to improving agriculture and food production. Very tempting to the scientists and some farmers because of the hunger around the world that’s happening, which makes the pressure even greater for them. It sounds nice being able to hold the power of this technology which can solve America’s problem of world hunger and poverty, that’s what scientists wants us to accept. Another bonus to this GMO is that it states there is absolutely no studies showing that it has caused harm, so it’s safe and healthy to eat. There’s also no proof showing there has been such harm to this genetically modified organism. It is also
A GMO is an organism whose genome has been altered by techniques of genetic engineering so that its DNA contains one or more genes not normally found there. GMO’s are believed to be beneficially in delivering higher crop yields, drought, bug and pesticide resistant crops, enhanced nutritional content of particular food products and improved flavor. These are some of the most notable features of genetic modification. Herbicides are substances that are toxic to plants and are used to destroy unwanted vegetation along with pesticides that are substances used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals that were also developed when finding ways to use technology and chemicals in genetic modification. Genetically modified organisms are created through genetic engineering.
The GMO’s have many differences from insects. Insects are actually very healthy for humans to eat. The GMO’s are not really healthy for humans to eat. It is a bad way for the animals to grow up because it is not natural. Many businesses like chipotle are now not using the GMO’s because it is better for people.
Nearly ninety three percent of all crops grown in America are genetically modified. GMO stands for genetically modified organisms and many parts of the world are finding new ways to genetically modify different organisms from corn to octopus. However, GMOs have both a good and bad side to them. If Americans know what GMOs do to your body, how crops are genetically modified, and what chemicals are used in GMOs; Americans won’t eat- or will think twice before eating genetically modified foods.
Food is genetically modified to taste better, to have a better texture, and even look better to buyers. Think about when you are in your local grocery store. Walking through the food, you are going to pick the best looking food to buy; that is just one of our natural instincts. For example, corn is a food I look at and pick the better piece. If the end is all brown and kernels are missing, I go on to the next piece of corn. Scientists have started to make corn more yellow, they are now able to fill the whole corn with kernels so none are missing, and the corn is lasting longer than ever before. The first GMO crop to be put on the market was BT-corn. The corn was made to produce pesticides, which helps it last a lot longer. The genetically modified foods are the ones that are made to look better to the buyer, which increases sales. Plants have been created that need
Genetically modified organisms (GMO) is the newest way of dealing with plants. It’s a way of speeding up the process we have done for so many years called conventional plant breeding. The problem is the consumers are basically eating foods that are made up of different DNA’s. For example, if a popular fish at the market cannot always be in season. These scientists will pull out DNA of other fishes that can survive through the toughest weathers, then they’ll add some salmon DNA to make it taste better. After this whole process is done it’s shipped back to markets for consumers to buy and eat. Yet, they don’t know what they are actually eating which is why GMO labeling is important. Some fruits or vegetables contain DNA of fishes
Genetically modified foods are engineered foods that allow different types of foods to possess different traits. This is when technology allow scientists to transfer different genes to the plant. Genes are what make up a type of plant and some plants are resistant to certain pests which would be transferred to another plant and make that plant resistant. However this could result in different tasting plants or different plants being made. This could have negative effects on the world and even to farmers, who would run out of jobs. Genetically modified foods can have a negative effect by exposing toxins, diseases, and can effect unemployment rates.
Genetically Modified Foods can be a benefit to society in general, it can help kids with many allergic situations. For example, 90% of the crops grown in the United States is now genetically modified, according to Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) - Myths and Truths. But what does that exactly mean most children with allergic
Genetically modified organisms, sometimes known as GMO’s, are plants or animals that are created through the process of genetic engineering. Modified foods are often viewed as a valuable solution to ending world hunger, because they take less time to produce into larger crops. The use of gmos have increased in recent years,because they can grow bigger and faster than regular fruits and vegetables in much harsher environments.Also have seem to sustain and fight off many of the pests that have troubled crop growers for years.
Genetically modified organisms are crops that have a gene from one organism inserted into the DNA sequence of another organism in order to gain beneficial traits (McWilliams 351). Beneficial traits that may result from the genetic modification of crops include herbicide resistance, insect resistance, or drought tolerance (McWilliams 351). The concept of genetically modifying food is a concept that makes many people skeptical about what is being done to the food that they eat. After careful research, it is evident that there are many potentially harmful aspects of genetically modified organisms. The negative aspects of genetically modified organisms include adverse health effects, their inability to solve world hunger, heavier use of pesticides and herbicides, loss of biodiversity, damage to the small farming business, the fact that the companies that control them have become too powerful, and inadequate labeling practices.
Genetically Engineered crops (oftenly called GMOs) are used to help improve plants. (Food.gov.uk says) GM, which stands for 'genetic modification ' or 'genetically modified ', is the process of altering the genes of a plant, animal or micro-organism, or inserting a gene from another organism (living thing). This is done in labs and was created to help benefit plant life by replacing or modifying genes in plant life.Genes carry instructions from DNA on what characteristics an organism inherits(Food.gov.uk). “Genetic modification allows us to produce plants, animals and microorganisms with specific qualities more accurately and efficiently than through traditional methods…(Food.uk.gov).” Original methods for producing GMOs were not accurate and farmers would have to guess by cross pollinating plants to try and achieve certain traits. As time went on methods became advanced and accurate allowing certain traits to be identified sooner than if farmers were only cross pollinating. As beneficial as GMOs are there is still speculation on whether they are safe or not and if the benefits are worth the risks.
GMOs are organisms with a modified genetic material (Du 2014). This process is done by genetically engineering (GE) the organisms through the use of recombinant DNA which allows transfer of genetic material from one species to another (Du 2014). This technique allows for the production of crops with cost-effective and favourable qualities such as pesticide and herbicide resistance. One of the original intents for this technology was to aid farmers by creating herbicides-resistant seeds in order to increase their yield, decrease costs and the amount of pesticides sprayed while still effectively destroying unnecessary weeds (Dimayuga 2014). This should have been beneficial to the environment, however the introduction of these GM plants has led to increased pesticide resistance which ultimately requires additional use of pesticides. Another, unintentional