McKay Voorhees Agricultural Science

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Across
  1. 4. Genetically Modified Organism; an organism that has been altered by genetic engineering techniques so that it's DNA contains one or more genes not normally found there.
  2. 5. GM Papaya becomes commercially available.
  3. 6. GM Cotton and corn become commercially available.
  4. 8. Predicting outcomes of actions.
  5. 10. Made by traditional breeding, mutagenesis, RNA interference, transgenics, and gene editing.
  6. 16. First GMOs in marketplace.
  7. 17. 1800s Farmers and scientists begin cross breeding plant species.
  8. 18. GM Alfalfa and Sugar Beets become commercially available.
  9. 19. Trying new things
  10. 21. Includes artificial selection, and genetic modification.
Down
  1. 1. 1985
  2. 2. Constantly taking in people, places, and things.
  3. 3. GM Canola becomes commercially available.
  4. 6. Researchers learn to copy one gene from plant and use it in another, result is GMOs.
  5. 7. USDA regulated farming without the use of synthetic pesticides, artificial growth hormones, or antibiotics.
  6. 9. We communicate what we do and knowledge we obtain almost constantly.
  7. 11. Uses speed, time, weight, calories, etc.
  8. 12. Weighing the good and the bad.
  9. 13. increases understanding, needed for everything we do, is all around us, starts with a question, process scientific method, discovery.
  10. 14. GM Potatoes become commercially available.
  11. 15. GM Squash and Soybeans become commercially available.
  12. 20. Golden Rice and GM Apples.