Genetic modification changes the genes and thereby the characteristics of the subject. ... When a scientist genetically modifies a plant, they insert a foreign gene in the plant's own genes. ... The result is that the plant receives the characteristics held within the genetic code. Consequently, the genetically modified plant also becomes able to withstand pesticides. ... Improved growth characteristics will produce better crops without the need for large quantities of fertilizer. ...

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Consequently, animals which would never have survived in the wild managed to survive reproduce and subsequently create an entirely new breed of animal with characteristics that donot appear in the wild. ... In selecting plants for food, they might have first consciously selected plant varieties that had desirable taste and unconsciously selected varieties with high nutritional value. At different times in different centers of domestication, people began to encourage the growth of desirable plants by removing competing plants and/or cultivating the soil. ... Over time, humans learned to sel...

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For centuries humans have been using hybridization to create better plants. ... Through biotechnology scientists are able to insert a specific gene or genes into a plant and give it new advantageous characteristics. ... "All of the proteins that have been placed into foods through the tools of biotechnology that are on the market are non-toxic, rapidly digestible, and do not have the characteristics of proteins known to cause allergies."" says Commissioner Jane E. ... USDA's animal and plant health inspection service oversees the agricultural environmental safety of planting and field te...

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It has been used in increasing the production plant and animal food, developing disease-resistant plants, diagnosing disease, improving medical treatments, and producing vaccines and other useful drugs. ... This method is most commonly for increased food production; only the plants and animals that have desirable characteristics are chosen for reproduction. ... This is done by changing the protein makeup of an organism; which results in an alteration of its characteristics. ... The introduction of Bt cotton, a now widely grown crop kills several pests that would have previously harmed cotton ...

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I hope to accomplish a proof that a flowering plant evolved from an oscillatria. ... This organism possesses the same attributes as the euglena except for one major evolutionary characteristic. ... Starch is a major component of a plant and the presence of starch in an early organism like the chlamydoma can only lead to the idea that this was the first organism in the evolution of the plant. ... The concrete evidence that the land plant evolved from the microscopic organisms like the paramecium. ... These "plants" are the first to display rhizoids or roots in order to live on land. ...

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The remains of plants and animals found in sedimentary rock deposits give scientists an indisputable record of past changes through time. ... Specific characteristics from their parents by inheriting particular combinations of genes are received by all plants and animals. ... Consequently, their characteristics will be more frequent in the following generation. ... Due to selective breeding, people have urbanized many new varieties of plants and animals. Organisms will more commonly have the preferred characteristics because the individuals in the generation before lacking the sought-after...

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Stilt/prop roots grow downwards from the trunk and branches, providing gas exchange in the exposed sections and water uptake in the sections below the sediment and are characteristic in Rhizophora stylosa and Ceriops tagal. ... Most plants have a very low tolerance for salt, but in mangroves, twice a day, the high tide rushes in and covers the majority of plants in saltwater. ... Some salt, however, still enters the root system, and is stored within the plant in its leaves, stems and roots. Consequently, there are often very high concentrations of salt in mangrove plant leaves. ... Conserving ...

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There are many different characteristics in the ocean that physical oceanographers investigate to gain further details. Some of those characteristics include; salinity, density, temperature of air, wind speed, tides, underwater construction, and thermal energy. ... A chemical oceanographer could help in situations such as spilled oil and thus will result in saving many plants and animals living within the ocean. ... Oil is very toxic to most plants and animals except the bacteria that is capable of biodegrading the oil. Plants are a big factor in the oxygen cycle and help convert carbon dioxid...

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Rainforests are identified by their climate, controlling factors, geographic distribution, distinguishing characteristics and related features. ... Both the Amazon Rainforest and Congo Rainforest are identified as tropical rainforests because they share the characteristics previously mentioned. ... "The Amazon consists of 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and more than 370 types of reptiles" (worldwildlife.org); while the Congo rainforest consists of its own assortment of living things. ... Yes, they may be categorized as tropical rainforests, have similar climate...

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Biomes (bioclimatic zones) are appropriate divisions by which to organize the natural world, because the organisms that live in each of them possess common constellations of adaptations to them, in particular to the climate of each of the zones and to the characteristic vegetation types that develop in them. ... Soils are very important because they influence the types of plants (and thus plant communities) that will grow within a particular bioclimatic zone, and as substrates to animals as well. ... Its importance is greater than the sum of its individual plant parts, as many species of anima...

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There are four criteria common to identified invasive plants. ... The third criteria is that there is a nuisance or pest value attached to the species in question and the last characteristic of an invasive species is that humans are normally responsible for the first introduction in the location in question (Tickner, Angold, et.al.). ... Many plants that are now considered weeds were sold as exotic plants by 19th century nurserymen (Mack 1991). ... If a plant passes the initial testing for allelopathy in a laboratory then it is recommended to test the plant in a more realistic outside en...

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Among the eighteen manufacturing plants, Tony Saliture's Janesville plant was unique and the most efficient one. ... He developed a strong organizational culture within the plant. ... When Eitel proposed the rolling out of the program in all the plants, there was a big resistance from the executive team and plant managers. ... Plant culture was poor at Charlotte. ... The plant received the Plant of the Year Award because of its progress in just one year. ...

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Natural pesticides originate from venom of animals [for example snakes], and plants [for example nicotine]. ... Chemicals taken from plants and animals create a much lower risk for humans and ecosystems because they are natural and are not harmful to the environment. ... For many years, pesticides have been used to aid plant resistance, cultural, mechanical and biological tactics in an incorporated pest management system to fight off against destructive pests. Pesticides can be toxic to man, animals and plants of improperly used. ... Many characteristics that had not been considered necessary ...

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An example of this would be tomatoes implanted with a gene from a vibrantly colored plant to give it that color trait. More useful applications include genes that increase disease resistance of plants as well as increased nutritional potential. ... Its intended target is children, with vitamin A deficiency in mind.1 Besides the consumers being the benefactors of the GM Food, farmers also have incentive to plant GMC's. ... If a crop does not respond positively to an inserted gene it may display unwanted characteristics included with the original trait. Some of these unwanted characteris...

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The product being used was a potato which had been engineered to express an insecticidal compound (lectin) from the snow drop plant. ... In agriculture, genetic engineering allows simple genetic traits to be transferred to crop plants from wild relatives, other distantly related plants, or virtually any other organism. Genetic Modification cab be used in many ways to control a variety of traits of plants, and the consequences of one manipulation may be completely different from another based on the traits modified." ... He discovered, while working with pea pants that some of the characteri...

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In addition, Indonesia would gain technology for operating the plants. ... Dow asserted in its proposal that the project offered only marginal returns to the company due to some peculiar characteristics: (1) it was heavily capital intensive, (2) the manufacturing cost had a high fixed-cost element, and (3) satisfactory returns would be obtained only when the levels of sales enabled its plants to operate near capacity. ... In Southeast Asia a group of Japanese companies were considering the construction of a petrochemical plant in Singapore, which would post great competitive pressure on the In...

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The most widely used genetically engineered plants are herbicide resistant. These plants are created so that farmers can overuse herbicides on their farms to kill weeds. ... Growing these pest resistant plants have also caused much concern. ... When the wind blows it will carry the pollen from the engineered plants and pollute the gene pool of natural plants in the vicinity (Long 3). ... This of course is a violation of human rights which can easily be avoided by simply informing consumers of the product's characteristics. ...

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It would involve creating plants with unintended gene combinations. One great potential danger was GM wild plants gaining resistance to insect pests by cross-pollination. ... In most case, the benefit of the GM food does not belong to the farmers who plant the GM food on their own land. ... And they have their own choice to the crop what they will plant. here i mean GM crops or non-GM crops. ... Genetically modified foods (GM foods or GMF) offer a way to quickly improve crop characteristics such as yield, pest resistance, or herbicide tolerance, often to a degree not possible with tradi...

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1.Did your supervisor meet any of the characteristics of a charismatic leader as defined and discussed in the background readings? ... Yes my supervisor under whom I have worked for 1 year got all the characteristics of a charismatic leader. ... Did your supervisor meet any of the characteristics of a transformational leader? Yes, my supervisor possessed the characteristics of a transformation leader. ... One more supervisor with whom I worked was the Project Manager in an automobile company, who was working at the plant set SMART goal for his team members. ...

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Darwin's On the Origin of Species clearly contains the characteristics of a scientific paper in the sense that he presents a thesis, and rigorously supports it though abundant documentation of natural observations as well as experimental data. ... Darwin applies this concept in animals (pigeons and livestock) as well as plants. ... Examples of this are when seed-raisers remove the plants that do not meet standard or how breeders will almost instinctively prevent their worst animals from breeding. ... With plants, by only planting the best known variety, and by selecting a slightly bett...

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This includes the different species of plants, animals and microorganisms that make up an ecosystem. ... DNA determines organism's physical characteristics (for example in humans DNA would determine a persons eye/hair/skin colour) and their abilities or inabilities. ... For example, many agricultural farmers cultivate monocultures- large populations of genetically identical plants- therefore having the same abilities and inabilities. Although all the plants may flourish in the same conditions at the same time, this also makes them all susceptible to the same parasite or changing environ...

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It is an organism (plant, animal, etc.) is transgenic if some of its genes come from a different species, they could have been inserted into its germplasm, through genetic engineering, or the organism could be the clone, or offspring, of a genetically engineered organism. ... The idea that there were factors controlling an organism's characteristics, and that these factors were inherited in a predictable way, was first discovered by Gregor Mendel, in 1900, his factors were given the name "genes" which carried on chromosomes. ... Frost damage is huge on crops, the damage is caused by the f...

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Fungi have a vital position in the plants ecosystems, especially in the association to plants and soils as they exist on earth. ... In addition, most vascular plants could not grow with the symbiotic, fungi, or mycorrhizae, that inhabit their roots and supply essential nutrients. ... There was a standardized way of planting each of the five substrates and each substrate was placed in the exact same location, exposed to the same variants in temperature, lighting and humidity. ... Any contamination would have eliminated them from use prior to the planting. ... The milk substrate was the first...

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Cell breath eventually makes carbon dioxide, which is acknowledged by plants and experiences photosynthesis. ... However not just living life forms experience cell breath, plants likewise experience cell breath. ... Another would be that all plants develop towards the sun. But then another would be the staying characteristics of vines, which help little plants without solid stems to get closer to the sun than they could all alone. ... However not just living life forms experience cell breath, plants likewise experience cell breath. ...

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The last theory states that Neanderthals were not in fact a separate species, but interbred to a greater or lesser extent with the incoming Homo sapiens, whose genes eventually became dominant at the eventual expense of the genes delivering Neanderthal characteristics. ... It began with the end of the last glacial period over 10,000 years ago and evolved into the Neolithic period; this change involved the gradual domestication of plants and animals and the formation of settled communities at various times and places. ... This is a clear indication that human populations developed new and ing...

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