1.) What is the greastest disadvantage to articles discussing GMOs?
2.) What field should genectic modification research be focused on (bioproducts,food, etc)? Why?
3.) Should pregnant women eliminate GM food from their diet? If yes, is it feasible? If no, why not?
4.) GMOs offer a greater food supply and this is benefial to the problem of world hunger. Are GMOs worth the potential health risk? Is it better to get larger quantities of food to people, even if their health is in jeopardy?
5.) Is it personally important to you know whether or not your food contains transgenic genes? Why or why not? What about cisgenic?
6.) Sometimes GM plants cross breed with non-GM weeds and create "super-weeds", these weeds are resistant to herbicides. How might the creation of these "super-weeds" negatively impact the environment?
7.) Should the production of GM foods be regulated by the government more closely than non-GM foods?
8.) What is the significance of geneticists being able to use artificial means to cut and order nucleotide sequences? What could this lead to?
9.) In your own words, why might it be important for researchers to compile 'libraries' of genetic material?
10.) In Europe, GMOs are not widely accepted like they are in the US, could this be because of a social/cultural difference? Why or why not?