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- 4. Modified Organism (GMO) A living organism whose DNA has been altered or changed through genetic engineering.
- 5. Disease Contagious disease caused by pathogens that can be passed from person to person or object to person or animal to person.
- 9. Disease A disease not caused by a pathogen that is not contagious.
- 10. An outbreak of a disease that affects many people in a limited area.
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- 1. Selection Artificial Selection is the selection of desirable traits in plants and animals.
- 2. Scientists who work with people to teach them more about nutrition and health. They study vitamins and minerals that people need in order to be healthy.
- 3. Breeding Selective breeding is the process of selecting parents with desirable traits to breed together in order to produce offspring with more desirable qualities.
- 6. Genes are tiny strands of sequences that carry information about an organism.
- 7. An outbreak of a disease that spreads over a large area or throughout the world.
- 8. Any microbe that can cause disease.