My Key Terms for GMO
- Modified: Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.
- Labelings: An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
- Prop 37: gives us the right to know what is in the food we eat and feed to our families. It simply requires labeling of food produced using genetic engineering, so we can choose whether to buy those products or not. We have a right to know.
- Federal: Having or relating to a system of government in which several states form a unity but remain independent in internal affairs.
- Petition: A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.
- Crops: A cultivated plant that is grown as food: "the main crops were oats and barley".
- Corn: Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears.
- DNA: A nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in the cell and is capable of self-replication and synthesis of RNA. DNA consists of two long chains of nucleotides twisted into a double helix and joined by hydrogen bonds between the complementary bases adenine and thymine or cytosine and guanine.
- Reproduction: The act of reproducing or the condition or process of being reproduced.
- Organism: An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life.
- Genetic: Affecting or determined by genes
- Transformation: The state of being transformed