BNDL: NUTRITION+DIET & WELLNESS ACCESS
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Author: Sizer
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Chapter 12, Problem 20SC
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Whether the statement ‘A genetically engineered rice variety in existence today supplies sufficient beta-carotene to fight vitamin A deficiency and childhood blindness worldwide’ is true or false.
Introduction:
Golden rice is a variety of rice produced by genetically modified rice to include beta-carotene gene so that the rice can produce beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is the precursor of vitamin A whose deficiency causes childhood blindness.
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