Chapter 10: Agriculture, Biotechnology, and the Future of Food

Question 1

Transgenes

Answer 1

Genes engineered and moved into transgenic plants

Question 2

Green revolution

Answer 2

Desire for greater quantity and quality of food for growing population in mid-late 20th century

Question 3

Monocultures

Answer 3

Large expanse of single crop type

Question 4

Aquaculture

Answer 4

Cultivation of aquatic organisms in controlled environments

Question 5

Seed Banks

Answer 5

Institutions that preserve seed types as a kind of living museum in genetic diversity

Question 6

Pollination

Answer 6

Process by which male sex cells of plan fertilize female sex cells of a plant

Question 7

Pest

Answer 7

Organisms that damage crops valuable to us

Question 8

Weed

Answer 8

Plant that competes with the crop

Question 9

Biotechnology

Answer 9

Application of biological science to create products derived from organisms

Question 10

Benefits of GM foods

Answer 10

Raise yields and lower cost, reduce environmental pressure

Question 11

Negatives of GM

Answer 11

Can be detrimental to environment w carying of genes, issue of not knowing the future