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Genetically Modified Pumpkins

Genetically Modified Pumpkins. by: Katelyn Pate. http://i.livescience.com/images/i/21301/i02/0-world-of-color.jpg. Before. Before genetically modified crops, p eople used selective breeding This enabled people to create things such as: Giant pumpkins High yield wheat strains

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Genetically Modified Pumpkins

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  1. Genetically Modified Pumpkins by: Katelyn Pate http://i.livescience.com/images/i/21301/i02/0-world-of-color.jpg

  2. Before • Before genetically modified crops, people used selective breeding • This enabled people to create things such as: • Giant pumpkins • High yield wheat strains • Plants with high resistance to diseases

  3. Now • Genetic engineering can be used to modify crops • Advantages • more advanced form of crop modification • Don’t have to go through the long process of selective breeding = very rapid to produce crops of desired type • No trail and error • Cross species can be done very easily

  4. Facts about GMF • 1996 the first genetically modified food was commercially introduced • In 2006: • organic farming: 0.6% of worldwide production • GM farming : 2% • the rest being “conventional” • US produces 68% of the world’s genetically modified foods

  5. Why genetically modified pumpkins? • To create the perfect jack-o'-lantern • deep orange colors • dark green stems that don't snap off  • ideally shaped • Mostly sold around Halloween, sales were about $106 million in 2005 • 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins were sold

  6. Or to create unusual pumpkins • bumpy, heavily wart-covered pumpkins  http://i.livescience.com/images/i/14520/i02/4-goose-bumps-02.jpg http://i.livescience.com/images/i/14505/i02/intro-mixed-pumpkins-02.jpg

  7. Pumpkins with unusual colors http://i.livescience.com/images/i/21302/i02/1-casper.jpg

  8. Method • Plasmid vector containing gene is inserted into the biological system (here it is pumpkins) • Plasmid vector has 3 requirements • Must replicate itself • Must be useful to the host • Must be suitable to insert http://www.mun.ca/biology/desmid/brian/BIOL4900/1828B.JPG

  9. References • http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/858-super-freak-pumpkins-warty-gourds-101007.html • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15494640/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/striving-breed-better-pumpkin/#.T49Pwqt8B2A • http://www.essortment.com/genetically-modified-food-40662.html • http://www.samoaobserver.ws/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9194:what-are-genetically&catid=74:viewpoint&Itemid=56

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