Engineered Plant Worksheet What are some fundamental differences between plant and animal cells?
What difficulty might there be to place an animal gene into a plant cell?
What advantages are there to place an animal gene coded to produce a specific protein into a plant instead of another animal?
How do plants that are different species hybridize?
If the grain contained a gene to resist an herbicide and this gene is now in a noxious weed, what could you do to contain the hybrid weeds in the future?
If you suggested using another herbicide to control the noxious weed, why make herbicide resistant plants in the first place?
Can you think of a way to prevent hybridization so that human kind can benefit from the advantages of using genetically altered plants?
Is the potential for hybridization of transgenic animals with other wild or domestic animals the same as it is for plants? Defend your answer.
Do you agree that the effect of lectin on the ladybug will not be a serious problem in nature? Defend your answer. What are the typical allergic responses of a person to nuts?
Why is it important to protect butterflies?
Why is it important to protect the Monarch butterfly?
What would happen if the the antibiotic marker was donated to a soil bacterium that in turn donated it to an infectious human bacterium?
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