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Popular Science

Popular Science: Something Funny Down on the Pharm

For Students 9th - 10th
This article investigates the growing industry of pharming, or genetically engineering and growing crops in order to produce pharmaceutical drugs. While there is huge potential for this industry, the article concentrates on the...
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PBS

Nova: Engineering a Crop

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive simulation allows you to compare selective breeding with transgenic manipulation to see which one produces a better crop.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Interactive: Chronicles

For Students 9th - 10th
By looking at the history of genetic engineering, this site hopes to show where eugenics has gone wrong and where we have an opportunity to make it right.
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Handout
Internet FAQ Archive

Faq Archives: Nutrition and Well Being a to Z: Biotechnology

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a fascinating site that presents an overview of genetic engineering. It discusses concerns with food production and labeling, and global health with biotechnology.
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Other

Sustainable Table: The Issues: Genetic Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about genetic engineering and gives the concerns people have with genetically modified food. There are also a list of foods that are currently being genetically modified, and also a "Did you know" section.
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Other

Union of Concerned Scientists: Risks of Genetic Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource portrays all of the possible risks that could result from genetically engineering foods. Contains links to other sites that features the basics of genetic engineering and alternatives to genetic engineering.
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Curated OER

Genetically Modified Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists inserted daffodil genes and other genetic material into ordinary rice to make this golden rice. The result is a strain of rice that provides vitamin A, a nutrient missing from the diets of many people who depend on rice as a...