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What is Genetically Engineered Food?

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GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD

Ayşe AKÇAY ---TR084 /043 Özge AYDIN ---TR084/072

İHSAN DOĞRAMACI FOUNDATION BILKENT ERZURUM LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL

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What is GM food?

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What is GM food?

DNA has been changed

Not natural Modern

Biotechnology, Gene Technology, Recombinant DNA Technology, Genetic Engineering

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What is GM food?

Methods: Transference of

selected individual genes

Transference of non-related species

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What is GM food?

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Why GE foods grown and produced?

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Why GE foods grown and produced?

Greater benefit(duration, nutritional value)

Crop protection(against insect, viruses, herbicides)

To prevent food shortage

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Foods which are Genetically Modified

99% soybeans, corn, cotton(cottonseed oil), rapeseed

Potatoes, tomatoes, rice, wheat, pumpkin, sunflower, some kind of fishes, papaya, sugar cane, sugar beet, carrot sweet corn.

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Foods which are Genetically Modified

Banana, strawberry, watermelon, melon, cherry, raspberry, pepper, and pineapple

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What About Food Security?

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What About Food Security?PRODUCERS OF GM FOODS GİVE DUE CONSİDERATİON TO THE POTENTİAL RİSKS TO HEALTH AND ENVİRONMENT

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Some people have no idea about GM foods...

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Some People Say it’s Helpful...

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Some People Say it’s Helpful...

Durable foods Pest resistance Herbicide tolerance Disease, cold, drought resistance Enhanced taste and quality

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Some People Say it’s Helpful...

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Some People Say it’s Harmful...

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Some People Say it’s Harmful...

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Some People Say it’s Harmful - Health risks

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Some People Say it’s Harmful - Health risks

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Some People Say it’s Harmful...

Environmental hazards

Cultivation becomes depended on companies producing seeds

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Some People Say it’s Harmful...

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Common Criticisms

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Because of religious problems; Labelling?

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Economic problems

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Patents for DNA...

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Global Area of GM Crops

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Food Poisoning

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GM Food is Everywhere.

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GM Food is Everywhere.

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References

http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gmfood/overview.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fs084 http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publicati

ons/biotech/20questions/en/ www.stratejikboyut.com/.../gdolu-

urunler-nicin-uretiliyor--26422.html http://www.forumdas.net/saglikli-yasam

/gdolu-urunler-36257/ http://www.bionetonline.org/English/Co

ntent/ff_cont3.htm http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.co

m/2009/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html

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