What are genetically modified organisms?
I don't know if I'm answering the question. I hope this helps. GMOs are plants and animals that have been genetically altered by scientists to express traits they normally wouldn't express or to speed up the process of cross breeding. To make them, scientists use enzymes to cut a gene from another bacterium/ plant/ animal and glue it into the DNA of the organism they are engineering. If released into the wild, GMOs could mate with the "natural" populations and introduce their genes into the natural population's gene pool. They exist in order to help humans. Some advantages of using GMOs are environmental (using less pesticide, cleaning up pollution, etc.), health-related (consuming food with fewer added chemicals, eating more nutritious food, etc.), and societal (helping farmers in developing countries, combating malnutrition, etc.)
Are genetically modified organisms necessary?
That depends on the context. In food, GMOs help improve crop yield and resistance to certain environmental issues that adversely affect crop production; grapefruit, for example, presently faces huge global industrial challenges with greening. In the U.S., the USDA mandates growers to destroy certain crops affected by greening, and some of these trees can take 7-10 years to grow to fruit-producing maturity. This can obviously have a huge impact on supply and how much grapefruit they are able to grow. They have developed genetic hybrids with other citrus to help find a faster growing, more greening-resistant variety of grapefruit. In other situations, such as GMO chickens, it is for effiency. Treating chickens with certain genetic testing and manipulation can improve meat yield from one bird, make it easier to slaughter or raise them, or make it quicker for them to reproduce, for example. Farmers and growers use genetic manipulation for good as much as evil these days, as sometimes it's a need and sometimes it's all about money. In humans, the argument is certain babies can even be considered genetically modified as in cases of IVF wherein they can choose eggs/sperm/embryos based on certain genetic markers and then manipulate them and pair them with other eggs/sperm/embryos for fertilization or implant strategically to improve the odds of a fetus developing with (or without) certain genetic traits or characteristics. Is it necessary to have a 75% odd of having a kid with blue eyes? Maybe not. Is it important to know your child may only have a 5% chance of being born with a deadly genetic trait like Tay-Sachs as opposed to an 80% chance? Yea, maybe.
How did GMO (genetically Modified Organisms) help solve India’s hunger crisis?
As traditional methods of pest control were failing there was a severe problem of loss of sufficient food to feed the huge population. Genetically modified plants that are resistant to the plague of insects that are destroying crops have the potential to save the Indian population from food shortages. There is still the irrational opposition to GMO products that has to be subdued for this to work as well as it can.
Genetically modified organisms (GMO), essay title?
Transgenic organisms-the benefits and detriments.
GMO (genetically modified organisms) Essay title?
Transgenic organisms-the benefits and detriments.
4 questions on Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO help please!?
Guys, please give me a 1)definition on what GMO is. 2) advantage of doing it. 3) disadvantage of doing it. and 4) the process how it's done. I want an outlined answer. Please science wizards there, help me! Thank ya so much! :)
Your thoughts on Genetically Modified Organisms [GMOs]...?
You are going to get two really strong opinions on this question. Those for GM crops and those against them. I'm one who thinks that GM crops are a great scientific breakthrough. I've seen what they can do for our farmers and increased food production. Just driving and seeing field after field of weed free soybeans is a beautiful thing. Also I don't approve of institutions like Greenpeace spreading misinformation and using fear tactics to block the use of GM crops. But my views on GM crops aside. If you are writing a paper on GM crops for developing countries, research both sides of the GM question. Write your paper on what the facts reveal to you, Don't let other peoples opinions (including mine) decide the paper for you. A good place to start is with reading about the Golden Rice controversy. Best of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
How can genetically modified foods help world hunger?
Genetically modified foods can help combat world hunger by making food able to be planted and prosper where it usually isn’t able to due to nutrient lacking soil or droughts, as well as building up nutrients in foods to help people who don’t have access to these nutrients normally.A great example of how genetically modified foods are helping world hunger is the biofortified sweet potato, the most successful development of biofortified food, which recently won the World Food Prize. This orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) is packed with increased levels of Vitamin A and can be easily grown in areas that lack the resources to get these nutrients.The vast majority of people suffering from World Hunger live in developing countries where it is hard to grow crops due to varying climatic conditions and harsh soil so this sweet potato is an awesome solution to combat these issues. The potato counters the devastating effects of Vitamin A deficiency which contributes to high rates of blindness, diarrhea, immune system disorders and premature death in children and pregnant women.The OFSP is both drought and disease resistant, and nutrition studies and programs have convinced almost two million households in ten African countries to plant, purchase and consume the sweet potato. They are quickly becoming the food staple of Uganda with 44% of farmers growing it and it is also being grown in ten other african countries.Over 10 million people have been positively impacted by these biofortified crops with the potential of several hundred million more having their health and nutrition enhanced in the coming decades.
How can a specific genetically modified organism provide a benefit for humans?
by god i just finished a lab report about this. Yes like the previous two answers those seedless fruits, i.e. grapes, oranges, watermelons, etc. are genetically modified, and they do prove to be helpful, Golden rice is one of the most famous for helping malnourished children who grow up eating white rice lacking of proper nutrients that children need in order to grow healthy and prevent disease. even though brown rice is a cheaper alternative. Agrobactrium is the only known species that has a trans-kingdom genetic transfer of DNA allowing eukaryotic cells to express certain genes that scientist place into Agrobacterium. Initially Agrobacterium causes rapid tumor growths in plants, but when the oncogene (cancer DNA) is replaced with another piece of DNA that expresses a certain trait the Agrobacterium is safe. However like all scientific researched products their may be a chance that the modified organism is harmful to humans however there has been no cases of such happening with Agrobacterium.