Opponents of GMOs have been unceasing in their campaign to vilify genetically modified foods by describing them as “Frankenfoods,” thus implying they are not natural and are potentially harmful.
“The practice of introducing new DNA and chemicals to seeds or animals (Aqua Advantage has developed a GMO fish) is similar to how Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein created his monster–—through piecing together lots of different organisms,” wrote the Organic Authority on its website—a common allusion in the anti-GMO world. “We all know what happened when the monster turned on Frankenstein, and many critics of genetic engineering have likened the inevitable backlash of GMO technology to the destruction and murderous rampage of Frankenstein’s monster.”
Many anti-GMO articles that warn of the dangers GM crops are often accompanied by an image of a tomato fruit or vegetable with syringes sticking out of them. Very often it is a fruit or vegetable for which there is no current GM equivalent such as a tomato. This depiction is used to reinforce the notion that GM foods are created in laboratories and not by nature and therefore are dangerous to consume.
With the constant barrage of scare-based imagery, it is not surprising that there is widespread public suspicion that GMOs are dangerous to human health. But there is little controversy surrounding GMOs within the scientific community with 88 percent of the members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science believing GMOs are “generally safe.” The safety of GMOs were once again reinforced by the May 2016 report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which concluded, there was “reasonable evidence that animals were not harmed by eating food derived from genetically engineered crops”, and epidemiological data indicated there was no increase in cancer or other health related problems associated with these crops entering our food supply.
David Zilberman, a professor of agriculture and resource economics at the University of California, Berkley, has noted that Frankenfood was “a terrible word, a stigmatization word, one that’s used to scare people… People are afraid of GMOs for little or no reason. GM is simply a tool. Because it allows us to modify plants with far greater precision and control then before, it will be very valuable.”
The reality is that the vast bulk of the foods we consume whether organic or conventionally grown have had their genetics altered in the field or in a laboratory via a process of selective breeding or advanced biotechnology techniques, and all such foods are safe to eat. The altering of genes in plants is even known to occur naturally as highlighted by the sweet potato.
Answer:
C) the three-base sequence of mRNA
Explanation:
Three-base sequence of mRNA is called codon. One codon specifies a single amino acid. There are 64 codons in eukaryotic cells and three of them are stop codons (non-coding).
tRNA have three-base sequence called anticodon which is complementary to specific codon. During the process of translation codon and anticodon are paired which leads to addition of amino acid to growing polypeptide chain. Newly added amino acid is carried by tRNA.
Well if both are dominate colors the phenotype of the offsprings would be pink or spotted. if the red flowering plant was dominate and the white flowering plant is recessive then the phenotype would be 100% red, they would just be the carrier of the white color. if the white flower is dominate and the red is recessive the flowers phenotype would be 100% white, but be carriers of the red color.
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Answer:
A) has increased with increasing human population
Explanation:
As you can see in the graph below, the line that indicates the number of endangered species increases as the line that represents the increase in the human population increases. This means that the number of extinct species has increased with the increase in the human population.
This is because with the increase in the human population, there is a growing need for natural resources, in addition to increasing the need for cities to expand. All of this results in greater deforestation and extraction of natural resources, which ends up causing an increase in the factors responsible for the extinction of animals.
