Misamis Oriental General Comprehensive High School
Cagayan de Oro City
Introduction
Have you eaten a GM (Genetically Modified) Crops? Can you name some GM crops? And can you make one?In this treasure hunt, you will know what a GM crop is and how it is made.Here is how the treasure hunt works: look for the answers to the questions below in the websites listed. Simply click on the website URL or address to be able to open and read it. Read each website carefully. Write your answers to the questions neatly on a separate answer sheet (or you may write it using Microsoft word and send it to my email add
mailto: abetgrans@yahoo.com) with your name in it.After answering all of the small questions, proceed to the Big Question. This time you will do it by team (with five members). Let your teacher approved your GMC (genetically modified crop) before it will be finally presented to the whole class.
Questions
1. What is a Genetically Modified Crop/Plant? How a Genetically Modified Crop does differ from a normal or ordinary crop?
2. List down at least 3 foreign GM crops and 3 local (Philippine) GM crops
3. How plant is genetically modified?
4. How Bt Corn is introduced in the Philippines?
5. Enumerate the steps in making Bt Corn.
6. In what ways GM crops benefited the people?
7. Is GM crops safe for human consumption?
Web Resources:
Title: Asia's First: The Bt Corn Story in the Philippines Title (Video)URL: http://www.isaaa.org/kc/inforesources/videos/btcorn/default.html·
Title:How a plant is genetically modified
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/sci_nat_how_a_plant_is_genetically_modified/html/1.stm/http://cls.casa.colostate.edu/TransgenicCrops/animation.html· Title: Global Status of Approved Genetically Modified PlantsURL: http://www.agbios.com/dbase.php?action=Synopsis·
Title: How are GM crops madeURL: http://www.bcp.org.ph/faq/faq03.html
· Title: Documented Benefits of GM CropsURL: http://www.isaaa.org/kc/inforesources/pocketk/default.html
· Title: Scientific Facts on Genetically Modified CropsURL: http://www.greenfacts.org/gmo/index.htm#4
· Title: Genetically Modified CropsURL: http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1860943535&id=sFIYtf6d-gkC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&ots=JFs-FIRdz3&dq=GM+crops+in+the+philippines&sig=ZJpT9CK9XN59UVmk_B0s-_TZzFM#PPA86,M1
· Title: Video on GMOURL: http://www.ualg.pt/anuncios/Divulgacao/JRC/txt_v/contents/videos.htm
The Big Question:
The group will make a (hypothetical) Genetically Modified Plant of their choice. Then the group will do the following (based on their own work):
1. Illustration/drawing showing how they make their GM crop (Manila Paper)
2. Enumerate the steps involved in making their own GM crop
3. Identify the desired gene
4. Identify the undesired gene
5. Name the GM plant made
6. Cite the contribution of the GM plant made
The group will report and submit their work tomorrow. Please indicate the specific task done by each member. Assign one to facilitate the reporting but everybody should be involved in the question and answer portion.
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