About 10,000 years ago, humans found out that they didn’t need to chase and gather our food around all day. We could just grow them. This is now known as farming. Ever since, we have been trying to control plants and animals. Since then, we as humans have evolved and so has our technology. For many generations, people have been controlling food using a process called “cross breeding” which involves mixing male and female genes with beneficial characteristics (e.g. Disease resistant) to make a hybrid plant. This also increase the rate of production per year which would be beneficial for farmers. But this is made from natural occurring forms in plants.
Today’s method of genetic modification have been made possible through science. Genetic
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About 1-2 million people die from Vitamin A deficiency every year and around 500,000 kids turn blind because of the lack of Vitamin A. Now though, molecular biologists have added a new gene into this rice which makes it produce ‘beta carotene’ which makes the rice change colour to golden-ish. Human beings need Bata Carotene to produce Vitamin A. So by this, there would be a decrease in the rate of death due to the lack of Vitamin A right? Wrong! Most of the people who die due to Vitamin A die mainly because of poverty. The way we could really help is by ending poverty. Also, golden rice is more expensive than the normal rice so those people wouldn’t be able to afford it …show more content…
They chose to go with 2 tomatoes for their experiment. The genetically modified one had a nice red colour, it was big and had a nice, round shape. The original though was very bruised, dark red. Basically very unappealing to the eye. They conducted the experiment, the results were amazing! It turns out that the genetically modified tomato had 40 times less nutrients/vitamins than the original. So, instead of making a tomato with more nutrients, they did the opposite, but more attractive. All of this just to make more