Bacillus

Bacteria and Fungi are important contributors of the living life. They however differ in their colony/ color/ size/shape/appearance. Bacteria are generally small in size but large in colonial structure, they are usually in the form of coccus, bacillus and spirillum, many times bacteria are of vivid colors because they have chlorophyll which also absorbs the light of different wavelengths which create natural colors of brown, pink, blue, orange and purple. Fungi on the other hand do not have…

The United States have nine genetically modified plants: corn, cotton, soy, sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, canola, zucchini, yellow squash, and alfalfa for animal’s feedings. The plants are modified for new desirable traits and the recombinant DNA is forced into the DNA of other species to make new organisms. During the process to accelerate the rapid growth, the gene (s) can become unknown and the host plant mutation causes collateral damage that induces toxins, allergy reactions or new…

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: Direct Environmental Impacts GMOs environmental record demonstrates that they are highly likely to have a deleterious effect on long-term food supplies because they are already damaging the environment. U.N. scientist Olivier De Schutter has discovered that the production of genetically modified grain seeds—for corn, soybeans, rice and other staple crops—has eliminated 75% or more of the wild species of these grains (Schutter “Seed Policies”). A disease that destroys the…

There have been many scientific advancements in the recent past, but one of the most impactful and controversial to the agriculture industry is genetic modification. Genetic modification is a time honored tradition that has been a method of breeding for thousands of years. In recent years there have been measurable increases in crop yield, and decrease in pesticide use, solely because of the evolved method of genetic engineering. The products of this technology is known as genetically modified…

crops and Bt crops. Roundup Ready crops are resistant to Roundup (a common herbicide produced by Monsanto). This allows a producer to spray his or her crops with the substance while not having to worry about it killing the crops. Bt crops, short for bacillus…

Aedes aegypti is holometabolous, this type of development stages includes the egg, lava, pupa, and the adult stage. The distinct traits to key out this mosquito are, small palps with white scales. The female mosquito can lay as many as a hundred eggs at one batch, after the eggs are laid down, the eggs develop within two days, and once wet the larvae emerge from the egg shortly after (Christopher, 1960). The larvae then mature over the course of the week or longer, depending on temperature,…

all cause increases in contemporary cases of plague (Oyston & Williamson, 2012). History of Emergence of Disease The plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which was identified in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin. Y. pestis is a Gram-negative bacillus that is found…

cause of Plague—its pathogen—rather, just like human hosts, they are victims of the disease.” Originally, some may think that this plague comes from an animal and is then transmitted to people, but this is not the case. “The actual pathogen is a bacillus (a form of bacteria; pl. bacilli) called Yersinia pestis, which was first isolated and identified in 1894 by the French bacteriologist, Alexandre Yersin, after whom it is named.” The plague comes from a form of bacteria which lives in…

organisms may be added to others, causing a person allergic to one specific organism to be inoculated with their allergen unknowingly. Pesticide resistant crops such as BT cotton can be modified to be toxic to certain insects. The crops are mad using Bacillus Thuringiensis, allowing the plant to produce “cry toxins” (Gene Watch). The idea behind this being a bad practice is that insects will naturally be selected and reproduced based on their genes that will allow them to survive the toxin and…

The world has a surplus of food, but still people are starving. Supposedly, this surplus is not enough to fed 795 million people in the world who are undernourished. This is the issue of Malnutrition and World Hunger, which creates social disturbance, and economic instability in the developing countries, resulting poverty inclines. World hunger is a chronic problem in most of the developing countries. Hunger is not only a physical circumstance; it is an exhaust on the economic growth, and a…