Objective: Understand the Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering

New Words: Transgenic Organisms, GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)

Do Genetically Modified Foods Need Stricter Controls?
1. When were GM first introduced? In 1994
2. How are most GM plants modified?
By genetic engineering techniques to produce pest killing chemicals or
to resist weed-killing chemicals
3. Give one example of GMO in US.
Bt Corn, corn that contains a gene for an insecticide
4. How do farmers benefit from that GM plants?
GM enables farmers to produce more food on fewer acres.

Objective: Understand the Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering

New Words: Transgenic Organisms, GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
List the risks of GM food
1.

Having unexpected effects on

people, like allergic reactions

2.

Hazard to the environment:

spread of antibiotic resistant
genes
pesticide resistant genes
can kill beneficial insects

3. GM crops can get mixed in with

other crops not genetically
modified

List the benefits of GM food

1. GM contains essential vitamins
that are lacking in diets of many
people. Example, vitamin A in
Golden rice.
2. GM increases food productivity
3. GMO prevents farmer from
using pesticides, or insecticides