WHAT IS A GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FOOD?
BEFORE WATCHING
8. Answer the following questions.
1. What does the acronym GMO stand for?
2. Do you know when the first GM food was introduced on the market? In the …….
a. 1980s
b. 1990s
c. 2000s
WHILE WATCHING
9. Watch the video and decide if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.
1. The origins of genetically-modified food date back to thousands of years ago. ☐ T ☐ F
2. All the plants we eat today were originally edible. ☐ T ☐ F
3. Corn kernels were bigger in the past. ☐ T ☐ F
4. The transformation of corn took place through the years in the U.S.A. ☐ T ☐ F
5. Almonds and rice were not originally edible. ☐ T ☐ F
6. Cisgenic organisms come from DNA manipulation in organisms of different species. ☐ T ☐ F
7. Jellyfish DNA has been implanted into the DNA of pigs. ☐ T ☐ F
8. Fluorescent pigs are cisgenic organisms. ☐ T ☐ F
AFTER WATCHING
10. Watch the video again and answer the following questions.
1. What examples of genetically-modified animals are mentioned in the video?
2. Why did people start domesticating animals and cultivating plants?
3. What was corn originally like?
4. What do scientists call what farmers did with teosinte?
5. What is different today in the process of food modification?
6. What are transgenic organisms?
7. What makes tomatoes resistant to freezing?
8. Why do GM pigs glow in the dark?
MOVING FURTHER
11. Do some online research and find out about the most common GMO plants available today. Talk about how modification has changed/improved the characteristics of those plants. Share your findings with your class.