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GMO Quiz
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Explain how GMO crops are made in your own words.
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Explain whether you think GMOs are good or bad. Make sure you explain why you think this.
GMO stands for
Genetically Modified Organism
Government Modified Organization
Generalized Modified Observation
Guarenteed Mobile Operation
How are genes put into new organisms
Plasmids from the
Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria
Pistal Method
Gold insertion
Shutgun Method
Which one of these is least likely to be a GMO crop food when you eat it
Corn
Papaya
Soy
Squash
No one has ever shown allergies were caused by GMOs
True
False
How does improved insect resistance help people?
Increased Yields
Decreased insecticide resistance
Decreased viral resistance
Fewer different types of crops planted
Which of these is NOT a product from a GMO?
Spider silk
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Insuilt
Cancer-causing drugs
What best describes Bill Nye's position on GMOs?
He always thought they were safe
He changed his mind after learning more
He has never thought they were safe
Has no opinion
Put the steps of making a GMO crop into order
3rd Step
Determine which trait to improve
1st Step
Indentify the gene to put into the organism
4th Step
Put the new gene into an organism using bacterial plasmids or a particle gun
2nd Step
Grow and test the GMO in a green house
Which of these is an actual negative of GMO crops that has been demonstrated to occur
Use fewer chemicals
More food with less land
Allergies
Unitended consequences like decreased monarch butterfly populations
Why is Potato Blight is important in US history
It shows that a variety of crops is best
More than 1 million people died in Ireland in the 1840s leading so many to come to the US
So many people came from Russia in the early 1900s
The Irish brought potatoes and invented French fries
Potatoe late rot is caused by what kind of organism
Bacteria
Insect
Fungus
Virus
The GMO Papayas were helpful because
They don't get a virus that was destroying Papaya plants
They code for a gene that makes Vitamin E
They let Papaya grow well in Southern California
They make insect-resisting proteins
This organization has said that GMOs are dangerous
Non GMO Project
National Academies of Science, Medicine and Engineering
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Medical Association
Insect Resistant Eggplants
Hurt the environment
Let kids work on farms more safely
Need farmers to use more chemicals
Cost lots more money
Golden Rice
Help people, espeically kids, get more vitamin A and minerals in their diets
Are called golden because they were developed by the Golden Gene Company
Have been shown to cause injury to people and animals
Help people, especially kids, get more gold in their diets
Why do scientists think people first grew teosinte?
So that they could eat corn on the cob
Because it is a type of grass
Because they heat it up and it popped just like pop corn
Because it was golden and had vitamin A
The Ranger Russet Potato
Was made by cross-breeding
Is a GMO food that results in fewer cancer-causing chemicals made during cooking
Is used only for animals
Which GMO crop main difference is better nutrition compared with non-GMO crops
Blue potatoes
GMO corn
Golden Rice
Insect resistant eggplant