Genetically Modified

Organisms
(GMO)
 WHAT ARE GMOS?

Organism one that has been altered through recombinant DNA

Technology

Involves either the combining of DNA from different genomes or

the insertion of foreign DNA into a genome

The most common genetically modified (GM) Organisms are

crop plants.

Microbes are the first organisms to be genetically modified.

 WHAT ARE NOT GMOS?

Mutants

Fusion of animal cells unless the product can form an animal ]

Plants formed by protoplast fusion

Plants formed by embryo rescue or in vitro fertilization or

zygote implantation

Organisms formed by natural DNA transfer

 OTHER TERMS FOR GMOs:

Genetically Engineered 01

02 Transgenic

Recombination DNA (rDNA) 03

Technology
 Genetic Selective
Modification VS
Breeding

✔ Very fast
✔ Slow
✔ Precise
✔ Imprecise
✔ Can introduce genes into an
✔ Modification of genes that
organism that would not occur
naturally naturally occur in the organism
✔ It can occur between two types of ✔ Occur between plants/animals of
species: Human and Bacteria same species
 Mercury Mars
Mercury is the closest Despite being red, Mars
planet to the Sun is actually a cold place

Jupiter Saturn
It’s the biggest planet in Saturn is composed of
the Solar System hydrogen and helium
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TWO MOST COMMON TYPES OF GMOs

FOOD ❖ Crops are modified to develop

resistance to herbicides and
increase their nutrient content
and to make them ripen later.

MEDICINES ❖ GM Bacteria have been

particularly important in
producing large amounts of
pure human proteins for use
in medicine like clothing
factors for hemophilia and
human growth hormones to
treat dwarfism.
MAMMALS

Saturn
Saturn is composed of
hydrogen and helium

Mars
02 Despite being red, Mars is
actually a cold place

Mercury
03 Mercury is the closest
planet to the Sun
 Saturn
01 Saturn is composed of
hydrogen and helium

Mars
02 Despite being red, Mars is
actually a cold place

Mercury
03 Mercury is the closest
planet to the Sun
 GOATS THAT PRODUCTS SPIDER SILK

01 Proteins are then

03
harvested through the Proteins must be
goat’s milk. extracted and combined.

Two key genes that Goats are separated into

allow a spider to weave two groups, each
their silk inserted into contains one of the two
their genetic code. 02 proteins.
04
 Mercury
02 Mercury is the
closest planet to
the Sun

01
Jupiter
It’s the biggest
03 planet in the Solar
System
 WAYS GMO TOXICITY AFFECTS ANIMALS, PLANTS AND SOIL

CANCER DAMAGE NATIVE POLLUTE THE

SPECIES ENVIRONMENT

DEPLETE SOIL ‘SUPER WEEDS,’ CAUSE INFERTILITY,

MINERALS, DESTROY ‘SUPERBUGS’ STILLBIRTHS,
BENEFICIAL MISCARRIAGES
BACTERIA
 ✔ Stunted Growth
✔ Impaired immune ✔ Higher Blood Sugar
system ✔ Enlarged livers,
✔ Bleeding stomachs pancreas
✔ Impaired blood cell ✔ Inflamed kidneys
Lab Animals development ✔ Less developed brains
✔ Misshapen cell and testicles
Tested
with structures in the liver,✔ Intestines reduced
digestive enzymes
pancreas, and testicles
GM Foods ✔ The animal’s life spans
✔ Altered gene are shortened
expression and cell ✔ Inflamed lung tissue
metabolism
✔ Their offspring have a
lower chance of
survival
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