As the farmable land is disappearing agriculitural specialists are looking for an alternative to produce enough food to feed the growing populations. Also concerned about the use of pestocides and herocides on the population and the longterm effects could do to human health. The GM "genetically modified" plants can solve these problems but have been under great controversy of what it can and will do in the future of human health as well.
Genetic plants arent new but farmers have gradually started to used the GM plants for these specific traits. These preffered genes are being put into the plants and also having the pesticides put into the plants so the use of sprays are cut by a huge amount. This resistance gene is being taken from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis being put into the plant's genome.
People are not liking the GM plants because of the potentcial to create super-weeds through the cross polination with herbocide-resisant crops or also super-bugs will evolve over time to resist the pesticides. But the trade off is that the arguement of possibly better for the environment because of less chemicals being put into the atmosphere.
The GMO debate need to be proven by testing the foods found in grocery stores for the presence of GMO-derived products. This can be done by using an antibody-based test another is polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to look at the sequence common in GM foods. DNA is more resistant than proteins in processing and can be extracted form even highly processed foods.
A - don't forget to talk about the procedure, and mention some predictions, too!
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