Increasing yield potential through natural selection.
It involves using scientific tools and techniques to modify plants, animals, and microorganisms to improve their production and quality.
The practice of crop chemical pest resistance.
Developing organic farming practices.
They solely prevent soil erosion.
By decreasing the need for crop rotation.
They increase competition among native species.
GMOs can increase crop yields, reduce pesticide use, and improve nutritional content.
Bt cotton is genetically modified to express a toxin from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, making it resistant to certain pests.
A type of cotton that requires no water for growth.
Naturally occurring pest-repellent cotton.
Cotton bred for cold climate resistance.
Biotechnology is used to breed crops that need more sunlight.
It involves creating drought-resistant animal breeds.
Biotechnology is used for developing crops with desirable traits like enhanced tolerance to environmental stresses, diseases, and pests.
Biotechnology is only used for modifying DNA in animals.
A method to increase the shelf life of food.
The addition of synthetic chemicals to enhance nutrients.
Biofortification is the process of increasing the nutritional value of food crops through biotechnology.
A process to enhance growth in aquatic species.
By halting all genetic modification processes.
It increases the use of synthetic chemicals.
Supports conventional farming techniques exclusively.
Biotechnology leads to sustainable agriculture by reducing the need for chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
Biotechnology enables the transfer of genes that confer resistance to diseases, protecting crops from devastating losses.
Developing biodegradable disease control solutions.
Increasing plant growth rate without modifying genes.
Purely modifying soil composition for disease resistance.
Techniques like genetic engineering and cloning are used to improve livestock breeds and productivity.
Through non-scientific traditional breeding methods.
By exclusively focusing on increasing feed intake.
Only by altering livestock diet plans.
Herbicide resistance allows crops to survive the application of herbicides, making weed control easier and more efficient.
The ability of crops to modify their nutrient content.
Reducing the amount of nitrogen in the soil.
It is a method to enhance crop flavor.
Marker-assisted selection is a method that uses molecular markers to select desirable traits in breeding programs.
Natural mutation selection.
Field-based rotational grazing.
Manual cross-pollination without any genetic markers.
Concerns include potential impacts on non-target species, gene flow to wild relatives, and biodiversity loss.
Complete depletion of soil nutrients.
Promotion of only organic farming methods.
Reduction of global food security systems.
It is largely unrelated to agriculture.
Synthetic biology can design and construct new biological parts, devices, and systems to improve agricultural productivity.
Focusing on traditional pest control methods.
Strictly enhancing animal breeding techniques.
A method to control water supply.
Exclusive to creating new crop varieties.
Microbial biotechnology uses microorganisms to improve soil fertility, increase plant growth rates, and control plant diseases.
Used only for reducing air pollution.
Biotechnology is only applied to fossil fuels.
Biotechnology can engineer plants and microorganisms to produce renewable energy sources like biofuels.
Primarily for increasing coal production.
It reduces the need for plant by-products in fuel.
Precision agriculture relies solely on weather forecasting.
Precision agriculture uses technology to monitor and manage field variabilities in crops, and biotechnology provides tools for improving crop productivity and sustainability.
Biotechnology eliminates the need for geographic data in farming.
It is unrelated to crop production management.