Arbeitsblatt: GM Food

Vocabulary list: GM food Biodiversity Breed Crop Crop spraying Cross-breed Harvest Hybrid Gene Genetic Engineering GM food Golden Rice Maize Organic food Pesticide Roundup Ready Soybeans Seed Soybean Transformation Transgenic Plants The variety of flora and fauna in the natural environment Sorte (to breed: züchten) 1.) the amount of wheat, rice etc. that is produced in season; 2.) plant such as wheat or rice that is grown by farmers, especially in order to be eaten: Most of the land is used for growing crop. the practice of spreading crops with chemicals that kill insects (AE: crop dusting) if plant crossbreeds it breeds with one of different breed the time when crops are gathered from the fields, or the act of gathering them: harvest time plant that is result of the crossing of two species or related species biological unit of inheritance that transmits hereditary information term used to describe the technique that alters or moves genetic material of living cells genetically modified food Genetically modified rice that is enriched with vitamin Mais food grown and produced without artificial chemicals Chemicals including insecticides, herbicides and fungicides Soybeans genetically modified to contain gene from bacterium, which makes it resistant to the herbicide Roundup small hard object produced by plants, from which new plant of the same kind grows: sunflower seeds Sojabohne The uptake and establishment of DNA in bacterium where the newly introduced DNA changes characteristic(s) of the receiver organism plant that contains gene or genes that have been artificially inserted instead of the plant acquiring them through pollination