BIOL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Glyphosate, Fusarium, Keystone Species
19 Apr 2017
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Field of canola: monoculture makes it susceptible to pathogens, genetically modified canola monsanto, bananas, the seeds are not noticible but these bananas are modified, cavendish bananas isolated from a mutated triploid, sterile plant. Pink lady apples: must be human made or cultivated from mutant trees. Sells these seeds to farmers who can no longer cultivate a normal crop: roundup 2 glyphocate blocks a pathway to again make a plant resistant to insecticide, health concerns of glyphocate. Scandal involving the rumor that monsanto paid scientists to ghost write papers for other scientists that are not affiliated with the company saying that nothing they do is harmful. Food chains: trophic structure defines the feeding relationships between organisms in a community. Food chains describe the passage of energy from primary producers to consumers and then back to decomposers. Food chains are limited in length because: energetic inefficiency of transfer through links.
