Exam 15: Feeding a Hungry World

________ is a high protein seed crop that can be eaten whole or ground into flour;its use was banned by the Spanish conquistadors because of its association with religious practices of the Aztecs.

Artificial selection has led to the development of many different crops from the wild type of which of these plants?

Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970 for the work to develop dwarf varieties of major food crops.

A mass of actively dividing cells in tissue culture is called a(n)________.

The human population of the world will continue to decrease well into the twenty-second century.

Organisms that contain a "foreign" gene in each of their cells are called transmogrified.

A mass of actively dividing cells in tissue culture can develop into a plant if ________.

Fifty percent of cotton grown in the United States is of ________ varieties.

What is germplasm?

What fruit triggered the world's most famous mutiny?

Who is considered the Father of the Green Revolution?

The widespread adoption of Bt corn is due to its ability to control a number of insect pests that attack corn,especially the ________.

Three factors that have encouraged the wide scale practice of monoculture are 1)mechanization 2)improved crop varieties,and the 3)use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.