FLIPPED CLASSROOM WHAT IS A GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FOOD? What Is a Genetically Modified Food? Instant Egghead #45 posted by Scientific American 9. Corn can be modified to be poisonous for pests. BEFORE WATCHING 8 Answer the following questions. 10. Not all GM food on the market has been tested. 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 AFTER WATCHING c. 2000s 10 Watch the video again and answer the following questions. WHILE WATCHING 9 1. What examples of genetically-modified animals are mentioned in the video? Watch the video and decide if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones. 2. Why did people start domesticating animals and cultivating plants? T F 3. What was corn originally like? 1. The origins of genetically-modified food date back to thousands of years ago. 4. What do scientists call what farmers did with teosinte? 2. All the plants we eat today were originally edible. 5. What is different today in the process of food modification? 3. Corn kernels were bigger in the past. 4. The transformation of corn took place through the years in the U.S.A. 6. What are transgenic organisms? 5. Almonds and rice were not originally edible. 8. Why do GM pigs glow in the dark? 6. Cisgenic organisms come from DNA manipulation in organisms of different species. 7. Jellyfish DNA has been implanted into the DNA of pigs. 8. Fluorescent pigs are cisgenic organisms. 7. What makes tomatoes resistant to freezing? 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. FOOD WORLD 215