HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Question
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By producing crops that are frost resistant
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By making robots to replace large farm machines
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The population of fir trees would increase and grow healthier.
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By increasing the use of wind farms that produce electricity
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Detailed explanation-1: -1) What would be a positive reason to genetically alter Fraser Fir trees in North Carolina to make them more resistant to rot? The population of fir trees would increase and grow healthier. Q. 2) In what way is biotechnology useful to law enforcement agencies such as the police or FBI?
Detailed explanation-2: -How can using genetically engineered crops impact North Carolina’s economy? Improve quality of farm equipment. Decreased availability of productive land. Decreased food production and more debt for farmers.
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: -Which is a benefit of storing the genetic information of people who have previously committed a serious crime? Offenders can be more easily identified by their genetic information if they commit a crime in the future.
Detailed explanation-5: -Agricultural biotechnology has been used to protect crops from devastating diseases. The papaya ringspot virus threatened to derail the Hawaiian papaya industry until papayas resistant to the disease were developed through genetic engineering. This saved the U.S. papaya industry.