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Why we care?
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Food and Energy
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Describe the relationship between crop yields and population
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Yields have kept pace with the population. And, we have not increased agricultural land yet (if anything taken away ag. land)
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What are some factors for arable land for crops?
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Water, temperature and limitations
Amount of arable land has been dropping over the years.
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If the amount of biofuels increase... what will that take away from?
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Food production (ex. ethanol)
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Global warming=
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Hockey stick prediction
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What can we do to improve biofuel production?
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Look to cellulose.
for example, the cell walls.
Or, miscanthus plantation (a relative of switchgrass)
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What is the efficiency of a regular incadescent bulb?
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2%
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What does Norway have?
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A global seed vault to store old seeds to store genetic richness of old plants
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What is an example of classic breeding?
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Corn was created from teosinte [by picking the biggest seeds (best traits) and breeding them together]
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What are some benefits of genetically modified organisms?
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It allows us to put the best traits into plants. For instance, Vitamin A was put into white rice to make "golden rice."
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What is the relationship between morphological complexity and genome size?
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There isn't one. Morphological complexity is not proportional to genome size
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Are there some genes that can be found in plants, but also are the genes that cause mutations/ diseases in humans?
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Yes
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Like humans, plants have....
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Sense.... 1) Sight 2) Touch 3) Heat and cold 4) Gravity 5) Smell 6) Taste
but... have no sense organs!!
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Unlike humans, plants...
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1. make their own energy 2. make own amino acids, lipids, vitamins 3. make lots of polymers and chemicals
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What else do plants make?
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1) wood and paper 2) fiber 3) rubber 4) etc
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