If you’ve ever eaten fruits or vegetables (and let’s hope you have), you have benefited from plants as food. Of course, the plants we eat have been highly modified by growers to produce larger and sweeter fruit, or heartier vegetables.
There are three basic ways to create plants with new, more desirable traits:
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where is the worksheet? thanks
Nearly all our lessons have videos, you found one of the very few that we didn’t have one for!
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It is very unlikely that we could make an “everything tree”. There are way too many kinds of trees on the planet.
Can you make an everything tree?
What if a date tree is connected to a birch tree? Won’t they get together because birch trees don’t produce the things needed to grow a date?
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Yes and no. Here’s a website that can provide more in-depth detail on history of GM as well as the future impacts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1280366/
What if some of the harmful genes in a bacteria accidentally get transferred into the tomato by the process of transgenics? Wouldn’t it cause a serious health risk?
This is one of the few experiments that doesn’t have a video (yet).
Is there more to this lesson? All I see is the paragraphs… I just don’t want to miss anything like a quiz or experiment! It’s okay if this is just an informative lesson.