This document discusses genetically modified foods (GMFs) and outlines some of their potential risks and benefits. It begins by differentiating genetic engineering, which alters an organism's DNA, from traditional crossbreeding. The document then provides examples of GMFs like crops modified to be pesticide-resistant. Both the projected disadvantages of GMFs, like unpredictable genetic effects and increased resistant pests, and advantages, like higher yields and need for less water, are listed. It concludes by asking readers to evaluate the most important risks and benefits of GMFs.

1. HOAX OR NOT?

2. Amphibious Tuber?

3. Supah Chicken!?

4. Anna Banana?

5. Genetically Modified Food

6. WHAT TO EXPECT
 Differentiate Genetic
Engineering from
Crossbreeding
 Describe a Genetically
Modified Food
 Identify the risks and
benefits of genetically
modified food
 Assess the Desirability
Quotient of GMF

7. Before, it was
crossbreeding

9. Reproduction by parents of
different species or varieties
of animals or plants to
produce hybrids

11. Then came
genetic
engineering

13. Altering an organism’s
genetic material through
adding, deleting, or changing
segments of its DNA…

14. …to produce desirable traits
or to eliminate undesirable
ones

15. A process that enables
transfer of genes between
different species which
would not interbreed in
nature

16. Crossbreeding
Think-Pair-Share
vs.
Genetic
Engineering

17. + Slow Process
+ Takes 15 years + Relatively faster
or more to process
produce variable + Usually costs less
new crop variety + Allows the
+ Can only insertion of genes
combine traits from almost any
from species that other organisms
are genetically into crop cells
similar

18. Genetic Engineering
somehow prevailed.. :(

19. And so, the birth of the
Genetically
Modified Organism

20. GMO’s..
crops and food

21. 1. What reason has caused
major corn production loss
as shown in the video?
2. What is BT Corn? Where
Think-Pair-Share
Size 4 | SW
did it come from?
3. What actions were taken
during the time when most
farmers showed dis

22. Organisms in which genetic
material has been altered in a
way that does not occur
naturally

27. PROJECTED DISADVANTAGES PROJECTED ADVANTAGES
Need less fertilizer Irreversible and unpredictable
Need less water genetic and ecological effects
More resistant to insects, disease, Harmful toxins in food from
frost, and drought possible plant cell mutations
Grow faster New allergens in food
Can grow in slightly salty soils Lower nutrition
May need less pesticides Increase in pesticide-resistant
insects, herbicide-resistant
Tolerate high levels of herbicides weeds, and plant diseases
Higher yields Can harm beneficial insects
Less spoilage Lower genetic diversity

28. According to The United
Nations World Food
Programme (UN-WPF)…

29. According to The United
Nations World Food
Programme (UN-WPF)…

30. There are several potential
risks of GM food to Human
Health, namely:

31. Direct health effects (toxicity);
Tendencies to provoke allergic
reaction;
Specific components thought
to have nutritional or toxic
properties;

32. The stability of the inserted
gene;
Nutritional effects associated
with genetic modification; and
Any unintended effects which
could result from the gene
insertion.

33. Which two disadvantages
and two advantages (of
GMF) do you think are the
most important? Why?

34. PROJECTED DISADVANTAGES PROJECTED ADVANTAGES
Need less fertilizer Irreversible and unpredictable
Need less water genetic and ecological effects
More resistant to insects, disease, Harmful toxins in food from
frost, and drought possible plant cell mutations
Grow faster New allergens in food
Can grow in slightly salty soils Lower nutrition
May need less pesticides Increase in pesticide-resistant
insects, herbicide-resistant
Tolerate high levels of herbicides weeds, and plant diseases
Higher yields Can harm beneficial insects
Less spoilage Lower genetic diversity