ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION
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They are safer
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They are more productive
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They are less expensive
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They are less controversial
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Detailed explanation-1: -Farmers can use less spray pesticides when they plant GMO crops. This saves farmers money and reduces the amount of pesticides that end up on crops. When farmers use herbicide-tolerant crops, they reduce the need to till the soil to control weeds.
Detailed explanation-2: -GM crops are plants that have been modified, using genetic engineering, to alter their DNA sequences to provide some beneficial trait. For example, genetic engineering can improve crop yield, resulting in greater production of the target crop.
Detailed explanation-3: -Less use of pesticides. Increased supply of food with reduced cost and longer shelf life. Faster growing plants and animals. Food with more desirable traits, such as potatoes that produce less of a cancer-causing substance when fried.
Detailed explanation-4: -GMOs (genetically modified foods) are foods that have been genetically engineered in some way, usually in a laboratory. Non-GMOs are foods that haven’t gone through any sort of genetic modification.
Detailed explanation-5: -GMO corn varieties increased crop yields 5.6 to 24.5 percent relative to their non-GMO equivalents. GMO corn crops had lower percentages of mycotoxins (-28.8 percent), fumonisins (-30.6 percent) and thricotecens (−36.5 percent), all of which can lead to economic losses and harm human and animal health.