Exam 15: Feeding a Hungry World

The main crop of interest for development during World War II was

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

The cheapest and most effective method for producing healthy plants is

What process results in soils becoming saline?

One advantage of high-yielding wheat developed for the Green Revolution was

Monoculture has been the underlying cause of

The introduction of Bacillus thuringiensis genes into crop plants transfers the trait of ________ resistance.

For many genetically engineered crops a plasmid from the bacterium _______ has been used as a vector to transfer foreign genes into the crop.

Protoplasm is the entire genetic information of an organism.

Local varieties of a crop are known as germplasm or traditional varieties.

Loss of genetic diversity can be blamed on:

What is the population of the world in billions as of April 2015?

What was the principle crop behind the Green Revolution?

An alternative to the white potato,______ is an Andean crop whose rhizomes resemble wrinkled carrots.

Sustainable agriculture is a mixed species system in which crops can be harvested without degradation of the environment.

CIMMYT is an acronym for

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

_______ 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.

Which of the following would be a strategy to stop genetic erosion?

Monoculture is the practice of growing a single variety of a crop in a field.