Puffed rice

Cryopreserved stallion semen used for Artificial Insemination (AI) is on the rise due to the amount of breed registries allowing this method to be incorporated into their breeding programs. The pregnancy rates using cryopreserved semen are currently still low due to the lack of proficiency in the post-thaw motility. When comparing the use of frozen semen to fresh semen for AI in mares the success rate is <75% of what is achieved by using fresh semen (6). The cryopreservation success rate is…

Another progressive outcome of GMOS, may be the end to world hunger. With the advanced growth and extreme output rate of the GMOS, many question whether these advanced crops may be able to feed the world’s starving. With the combined trait of herbicide-tolerance and sustainable large food production, pest consumption of crops could be cut down, and therefore more people fed. Some studies suggest that with the use of GMOS, 20,000 more people a year could be fed than otherwise wouldn’t have had…

GMO is an organism in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally. Scientist have been taking a piece of genetic material from one organism (plants or animals) and putting it in a chromosome of a animal. Genetically modifying animals have been around since the 1970’s. “Genetic engineering is able to create whole organisms that are not natural to the planet, and whose specific genetic make-up is as much a result of human manipulation as it is natural…

By making food more tasty and nutritious, it will cause people to be healthier because people will likely eat the tasty foods. For example, white rice is low in vitamin A so a team of scientists worked to get more vitamin A in the rice. They added two daffodil and one bacterial gene to the rice plants and were able to get what they wanted. This breakthrough saved the lives of many who were previously dying of vitamin A deficiency and is one of the many examples of why…

The reason people want to get patents is to protect the inventor by allowing them the exclusive ability to make, sell and use their invention (Morgan) Under the Patent Act of 1970 a patent must satisfy two basic requirements: the creation must be novel or original and it can not have been previously patented US or any country, it also cannot appear in prior art, all public information that might germane to the applicants novelty (Morgan). Based on these requirements I do think that business can…

Discussion The purpose of this experiment was to examine the relationship between salt stress and peroxidase activities in corn (Zea mays). To do this, we watered germinating corn seeds with various salt solutions. For our first part of out experiment, we wanted to see what effect NaCl would have on peroxidase activities in corn. We watered week old corn with either 25mM or 75mM NaCl solutions. We found the band intensities for 75mM treatment all either went up or stayed the same as the 25mM…

malnutrition. For example, many children in Southeast Asia suffer from Vitamin A deficiency. The lack of vitamin A from one's diet may lead to blindness or death. In order to combat this growing problem, scientists introduced “Golden Rice”- a new strand of Genetically modified rice that provides vital doses of Vitamin A. Such implication “could…

She cites the problem behind that to be mainly the fault of the EU and other non-governmental organizations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. John Robbins in his article explains the arguments’ falsifiability being that Golden Rice did in fact not produce enough beta-carotene. He although, fails to indicate that neither do Non-GMO alternatives as does Saletan. Alternately, Baggott explains that it has been altered so it now produces it…

During the use of DDT, after World War II, crop yields increased greatly in the United States and overseas. This is because the pesticide killed many of the insects that consumed the essential crops. Author Lillian Forman states, “After the war, DDT helped ensure that starving Europeans, not bugs, ate the crops that farmers were once more able to plant. When the chemical was made available to the American public, it was welcomed as a means of boosting agricultural production, suppressing pests,…

GMOs Destructive Footprint in the U.S Over the years the American diet has adopted genetically modified ingredients for good and for bad. Although genetically modified ingredients give producers a faster turn out rate for the product, the cost to American consumers could cause far more complications in the future. Not only do genetically modified ingredients provoke allergic reactions, gene transfer, and outcrossing, but it also causes various other damages to the environment. Genetically…