APES Chapter 10

Question 1

undernutrition

Answer 1

receiving fewer calories than the minimum dietary energy requirement

Question 2

food security

Answer 2

the guarantee os an adequate, safe, nutritious and reliable food supply available to all people at all times

Question 3

overnutrition

Answer 3

receiving too many calories each day

Question 4

malnutrition

Answer 4

a shortage of nutrients a body needs

Question 5

monocultures

Answer 5

planting large expanses of a single crop type

Question 6

biofuels

Answer 6

fuels derived from organic materials and used in internal combustion engines

Question 7

ethanol

Answer 7

biofuel made from corn, mostly used in the U.S.

Question 8

seed banks

Answer 8

institutions that preserve seed types as a kind of museum of genetic biodiversity

Question 9

pesticides

Answer 9

chemicals designed to kill, insects, plants, and fungi

Question 10

biocontrol/biological control

Answer 10

control of pests or weeds with other organisms that prey or parasitize them

Question 11

Integrated pest management

Answer 11

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Question 12

pollination

Answer 12

botanical version of sexual intercourse

Question 13

genetic engineering

Answer 13

any process where scientists directly manipulate an organism’s genetic material in the lab by adding, deleting, or changing segments of DNA

Question 14

genetically modified organisms

Answer 14

any organism that have been genetically engineered

Question 15

recombinant DNA

Answer 15

DNA that has been patched together from DNA of multiple organisms

Question 16

transgenic

Answer 16

an organism that contains DNA from another species

Question 17

transgenes

Answer 17

the genes moved from one organism to another

Question 18

biotechnology

Answer 18

the material application of biological science to create products derived from organisms

Question 19

precautionary principle

Answer 19

the idea that we shouldn’t take up a new action until the effects of it are full understood