Genetic Engineering (Student Edition)

by: Elizabeth Rice, Marianne Krasny, and Margaret E. Smith

Genetically engineered crops cross boundaries that traditional crops do not and pose new and challenging regulatory issues. In the United States, a number of government agencies regulate food, plants, pesticides, and agriculture. Who regulates a plant that makes its own pesticide? Is it a plant? Is it a pesticide? Who decides if the food from it is safe? The activity in this chapter provides answers to these questions.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB199XT_S6

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