BRIEF REVIEW OF BIOTECH SO FAR...
How do you get a foreign gene into a plant's DNA?
What is a gene gun? Microprojectiles?
What role does plant regeneration
play in biotechnology?
Other ways to introduce genes into plants
What is Agrobacterium tumefasciens?
What does it do to plants naturally?
What is a plasmid?
How do scientists manipulate Agrobacterium to get
genes into plant cells
What does 'screening' mean in biotech speak, and why is it important in
biotech?
How do you make sure your pet gene got into
the plant?
What role do antibiotics play in
screening?
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What are the pluses and minuses of biotech?
BT corn kills monarch flutterbyes?
Use your baloney filter....what are the FACTS?
What are the relative risks of transgenic corn to
monarchs compared to habitat destruction,
other human intervention, conventional pesticides, global warming?
What about spread of transgenes from crop plants to weedy, related
species?
What kind of transgenes would pose the greatest problems to the
environment, human health, etc?
In other words, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE PLUSES AND MINUSES OF
BIOTECH????!!