Across
- 3. GMO created to combat plant disease in Hawaii
- 4. an individual living thing
- 6. Changed or altered from a prior state
- 8. Not living (never having been living)
- 10. The diversity of life in an area
- 11. Breeding an organism with the goal of producing desirable traits
- 14. Raising crops and livestock, often for food production
- 15. Crops raised to be sold
- 17. chemical method of pest control
- 18. Organism modified through genetic engineering
- 20. Deoxyribonucleic acid
- 21. Plants that are pollinated by natural processes (wind, pollinators, self-pollination, etc.)
- 22. US Department regulating agricultural practices. Sets safety standards for GMOs.
- 23. Relating to the heredity of traits
- 24. Occurs when weeds become resistant to chemical control methods
Down
- 1. Meets USDA standards for the label. Hybrids are this, GMOs are not.
- 2. The process by which humans interact with an organism and change its patterns to obtain resources
- 5. Can occur when a pesticide is ineffective at removing a pest.
- 7. Related to living things
- 9. A crop that produces kernels. Often genetically modified.
- 12. clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
- 13. Used as a biological pesticide
- 16. The substances in food required to sustain life
- 18. Moving genes from one organism to another
- 19. The amount of a crop that is produced