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    Unit 1-Change Over Time: Daily Assignment (2/26 Wednesday)

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    This document provides a daily assignment on the topic of artificial selection and genetic engineering. It includes two essential objectives: explaining recombinant DNA using the example of genetically modified organisms. The essential question is how humans can selectively alter organism traits. The document defines genetic engineering as changing DNA arrangements to alter genes. It explains that recombinant DNA involves inserting useful DNA segments from one organism into another, such as producing human insulin in bacteria. Genetically modified organisms are foods whose genes have been altered, like tomatoes that can be transported before ripening. The document asks why some people are concerned about risks of GMOs and notes worries about long-term health effects and impacts on ecosystems.

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    This document provides a daily assignment on the topic of artificial selection and genetic engineering. It includes two essential objectives: explaining recombinant DNA using the example of genetically modified organisms. The essential question is how humans can selectively alter organism traits. The document defines genetic engineering as changing DNA arrangements to alter genes. It explains that recombinant DNA involves inserting useful DNA segments from one organism into another, such as producing human insulin in bacteria. Genetically modified organisms are foods whose genes have been altered, like tomatoes that can be transported before ripening. The document asks why some people are concerned about risks of GMOs and notes worries about long-term health effects and impacts on ecosystems.

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    This document provides a daily assignment on the topic of artificial selection and genetic engineering. It includes two essential objectives: explaining recombinant DNA using the example of genetically modified organisms. The essential question is how humans can selectively alter organism traits. The document defines genetic engineering as changing DNA arrangements to alter genes. It explains that recombinant DNA involves inserting useful DNA segments from one organism into another, such as producing human insulin in bacteria. Genetically modified organisms are foods whose genes have been altered, like tomatoes that can be transported before ripening. The document asks why some people are concerned about risks of GMOs and notes worries about long-term health effects and impacts on ecosystems.

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    Unit 1- Change Over Time

    Lesson 3: Artificial Selection

    Daily Assignment [2/26 Wednesday]

    Essential Objectives
     I can explain what genetic engineering is using the example of recombinant DNA.
     I can explain what genetically modified organisms are.

    Essential Question
     How can humans selectively alter the traits of organisms?

    Journal 2:
    What is genetic engineering?

     Chromosomes are made of DNA and are in the nucleus of a cell.


    Sections of DNA in chromosomes that direct cell activities are called
    genes .
     Scientists are experimenting with genetic engineering, which are the
    biological and chemical methods that change the arrangement of DNA
    that makes up a gene.
     Genetic engineering already is used to help produce large volumes of
    medicine.

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    Recombinant DNA
     Genes can be inserted into cells to change how those cells preform their
    normal function .
     Recombinant DNA is made by inserting a useful segment of DNA from
    one organism into a bacterium .
     Large quantities of human insulin are made by some genetically
    engineered organisms.
     People with Type l diabetes need this insulin because their pancreases
    produce little to no insulin . Another use includes the production of
    chemicals to treat cancer .

    What is a genetically modified organism?


     Food products that have been genetically modified are commonly
    referred to as genetically modified organisms or GMOS. Genetic
    engineering can produce improvements in crop plants .
     Scientists have made genetically engineered tomatoes with a gene that
    allows tomatoes to be picked while green and transported great
    distances before they ripen completely.
     Some crops are even engineered to be toxic to particular insects and
    pests .

    Why do you think some people are concerned about the risks associated with
    GMOs?

    Some people are concerned that the long term effects of GMO consumption on
    healthy have not been fully determined, as GMOs have only recently
    entered the food market. Environmental concerns might include that toxic
    effects to insects could disrupt ecosystems .

    Lesson 3 Review
    Summarize It!
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    1.Explain how natural selection and selective breeding are related.
    The changes caused by selected breeding are similar to those caused by natural selection.
    Natural and artificial selection both refer to a process in which the traits that will be passed from
    generation to generation are determined. In natural selection, it is determined by which species
    survive and reproduce. In artificial selection humans control which traits will appear in future
    generations and which will not.
    [Word bank: humans, passed, traits, natural selection, reproduce, determined, selective breeding,
    survive]

    A student prepared this chart comparing examples of natural selection with artificial selection.
    Natural Selection Traits That Benefit the Artificial Selection Traits That Benefit
    Species Humans
     Ability to escape predators
     Ability to resist droughts

    2. Which can the student add in the column under artificial selection to complete the chart?
    1. ability to grow large kernels of corn
    2. ability to survive cold temperatures
    3. ability to attract pollinators
    4. ability to produce milk for offspring

    A. 1 and 3
    B. 1 and 2 ☑️
    C. 2 and 3
    D. 3 and 4

    3. Golden rice is a type of rice that has been altered to contain vitamin A. This yellow rice is
    beneficial to populations that typically do not receive enough vitamin A from other sources.
    How is golden rice classified?
    A. Genetically engineered
    B. Genetically modified organism ☑️

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    C. Altered through gene therapy
    D. A and B

    4. Imagine you and your classmates are growing a class garden. What traits would beneficial for
    your plants if it rains a lot at school. If you had the technology, what type of genetic engineering
    can produce plants that can survive in this condition?
    It rains at school a lot so we would want our plants to do well in wetland. Once some plants died
    as a result of overwatering we would continue to breed the plants that survived and had the
    beneficial traits. If we had the technology, we could give our plants DNA from a wetland plant,
    making them GMOs that thrive in wet conditions.
    [word bank: beneficial, wetland, DNA, GMOs, survived, water]
    Module Wrap-Up
    Using the concepts that you have learned throughout this module, explain why the butterfly look
    like the face of an owl according to the theory of evolution.
    According to the theory of evolution, the butterfly looks like
    an owl because it evolved to look this way. This probably
    originated from a adaption in the coloring of a single
    butterfly. An owl is a predator so it was beneficial to the
    butterfly’s survival and it lived to reproduce and pass on its
    traits. Over time, this trait became an adaption to the
    population.
    [word bank: evolved, predator, single, beneficial, reproduce, adaptation, pass, predator]

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