Should we Grow GM Crops?
Instructions: Read the page and click YES or NO, reach the next...click YES or NO...etc until you’ve read all the arguments -- You will need to do this 12 times in order for your votes to be tallied. Navigate the site, each of the bold headings below are links within the site
1. What is a GM Crop.
A GM crop is a crop that has been genetically modified to make it "better" or "perfect".
2. List 2 arguments FOR the growing of GM cropsv
high nutrition
healthier
hope to add vitamins to foods
3. List 2 arguments AGAINST the growing of GM crops.
could hurt small farms
goes against nature
*Read some of the reader’s responses.
Engineer a Crop
4. Practice this simulation until you get the largest ears of corn. How many times did it take you?
It took two times.
What’s for Dinner?
*Click on the foods on the table to see what research is being done to bioenginner the foods.
5. List two foods and desribe how they are being modified.
potatoes(fries)- have been genetically modified to soak up less of the oil that they are being fries in, this is still pending.
corn-GM corn has been placed in test crops, they genetically modified corn to be more resistant to drought, they have changed the seed color, amino-acid composition, oil profiles, and starch content
Viewpoints
*Read the article titled “Are GM Food Sufficiently Regulated in the US?”
Do you think food should be labeled if it has been genetically modified? Why or Why not?
I think that GM food should be labeled because some people may not want to eat GM food or there may be something used to genetically modify it that could harm them. I think that it would be important to lable the GM food.
Instructions: Read the page and click YES or NO, reach the next...click YES or NO...etc until you’ve read all the arguments -- You will need to do this 12 times in order for your votes to be tallied. Navigate the site, each of the bold headings below are links within the site
1. What is a GM Crop.
A GM crop is a crop that has been genetically modified to make it "better" or "perfect".
2. List 2 arguments FOR the growing of GM cropsv
high nutrition
healthier
hope to add vitamins to foods
3. List 2 arguments AGAINST the growing of GM crops.
could hurt small farms
goes against nature
*Read some of the reader’s responses.
Engineer a Crop
4. Practice this simulation until you get the largest ears of corn. How many times did it take you?
It took two times.
What’s for Dinner?
*Click on the foods on the table to see what research is being done to bioenginner the foods.
5. List two foods and desribe how they are being modified.
potatoes(fries)- have been genetically modified to soak up less of the oil that they are being fries in, this is still pending.
corn-GM corn has been placed in test crops, they genetically modified corn to be more resistant to drought, they have changed the seed color, amino-acid composition, oil profiles, and starch content
Viewpoints
*Read the article titled “Are GM Food Sufficiently Regulated in the US?”
Do you think food should be labeled if it has been genetically modified? Why or Why not?
I think that GM food should be labeled because some people may not want to eat GM food or there may be something used to genetically modify it that could harm them. I think that it would be important to lable the GM food.
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