ENVS 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Herbicide, Organism, Precautionary Principle
3 Mar 2016
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Biotechnology is impacting our lives derived from organisms: biotechnology = the application of biological science to, transgenic organism = an organism that contains dna from another species, biotechnology has created medicines, cleaned up pollution, and produced food. Transgenes = genes that have moved between organisms create products products. Genetically modified organisms (gmos: genetic engineering = laboratory manipulation of genetic material, genetically modified organisms (gmos) = organisms that have been genetically engineered by uses of , recombinant dna = dna created from multiple organisms. Case study: gm maize and roundup ready canola. Biotechnology is changing our world: gm foods are now big business, most gm crops are herbicide resistant farmers apply herbicides to kill weeds, and crops survive. Most u. s. soybeans, corn, cotton, canola are genetically modified: globally, more than 10 million farmers grow gm foods on 102 million ha of farmland, producing . 15 billion worth of crops.
