STUDY GUIDE
Foodborne Illnesses + GMOs (5 pts Extra Credit)
Foodborne Illnesses:
Complete the following table using information from your lecture and your text. Do a web search if you need to.
Organism or other
contaminant
Animal, fungus,
bacterium, protozoan,
virus, or chemical
contaminant?
E. coli
How people usually get
infected/poisoned (route of infection)
Symptoms of infection or
poisoning
Fecal-oral route
Salmonella
Stomach distress, diarrhea,
inflammation
Norovirus
Bacterium
Methylmercury
Beef tapeworm
Various bread molds
Improperly canned/pickled food; bulging
cans
Nerve damage, coma, death
STUDY GUIDE
Foodborne Illnesses + GMOs (5 pts Extra Credit)
GMOs:
Practice Question 2:
What is a transgene? Look up an example of a transgenic organism online. What was the source of the transgene?
What was the recipient of the transgene? (Example: Glowing bunnies have been made by taking a gene for a green
fluorescent protein and expressing it in rabbits.)
Practice Question 3:
Is the DNA in a transgenic organism chemically different from the DNA in a non-transgenic organism? Explain.
(There are different ways to look at this question. Your explanation is more important than your yes/no answer.)
STUDY GUIDE
Foodborne Illnesses + GMOs (5 pts Extra Credit)
Practice Question 4:
Name three plausible benefits of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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3.
Practice Question 5:
Name three potential risks of genetically modified organisms.
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3.