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Biotechnology: An Agricultural Dilemma

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Students investigate the types of genetically modified crop plants there are and the benefits and risks of such plants. The agricultural needs in developing nations for this biological knowledge to resolve societal issues is also examined in this lesson.

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biodiversity, biotechnology, botany, ecology, pathogens, developing nations

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Agriculture, agrochemicals, biodiversity, biotechnology, botany, bt, cultivar, developing nations, ecology, exudates, gene transfer, genetically modified organisms (gmos, herbicide resistant, monoculture, pathogen, soil biota, transgene, transgenic, science
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Year
2003

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