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BCH 190, MIC 190, AFS 190, NRS 190, PLS 190
OnLine BCH 190
A Sweeping General Survey on Life and Biotechnology
A Public Access College Course
Issues in Biotechnology:
The Way We Work With Life
Dr. Albert Kausch
Kimberly Nelson
BCH 190
Issues in Biotechnology:
The Way We Work With Life
Dr. Albert P. Kausch
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Part II
The Applications of
Biotechnology
A Sweeping General Survey on Life and Biotechnology
The University of Rhode Island
Agricultural Biotechnology
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Lectures 13 and 14
Issues in Biotechnology:
The Way We Work With Life
Dr. Albert P. Kausch
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Agricultural Biotechnology
Part I Where Does Our Food Come From?
Part II DNA-based Biotechnology
And Modern Agriculture
Part III. Issues, Controversies and Concerns
a. Setting the Stage about Food and Agriculture:
b. Issues, Controversies and Concerns
c. The Organic Food Debate
Part IV. The Ethics
of Agriculture
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Part V. Renewable Energy and the Future of Humanity
Issues in Biotechnology:
The Way We Work With Life
Dr. Albert P. Kausch
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Agricultural Biotechnology
Part IV. Issues, Controversies and Concerns
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Conventional Foods
Processed Foods
Organic Foods
Natural Foods
Whole Foods
Crop Plants
Conventional farming
Organic farming
Wild Plants
Crop Plants
Genetics
Breeding
Heredity
DNA
Terminator
Issues in Biotechnology:
The Way We Work With Life
Dr. Albert P. Kausch
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Agricultural Biotechnology
Part III. Issues, Controversies and Concerns
The Organic Food Industrial Complex
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How should we
produce the food
we eat?
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Sustainability
Economical
Practical
Scalable
Large yields
Lower costs
Competitive
Crop Improvement
Organic farming
No Synthetic Pesticides
No Synthetic Fertilizers
No GMOs
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AgBiotech
Issues and Concerns
Uncertainty about safety
Regulatory issues
Right of choice
Environmental concerns
Globalization
Big science, big companies
Distrust of Science
Food culture
Crossing the line
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Conservation Tillage
Specific Targets
Biological Basis
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Lower
Environmental
Impacts
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Is Organic Food
Better for You?
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Is Organic Food
Better for the
Environment?
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Critics argue:
Feeding Humanity From Organic Fields
Would Mean Cropping Twice As Much
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Plant.
Is Organic Food
Safer?
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Is Organic Food
Better for You?
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Issues in Biotechnology:
The Way We Work With Life
Dr. Albert P. Kausch
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Agricultural Biotechnology
Part IV. Issues, Controversies and Concerns
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Sustainable Agriculture
Maarten J.
Chrispeels,ed.
Director
San Diego Center for
Molecular Biology
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Agricultural
Biotechnology: Risks and Ethics
Risk to worldview
Risk to human health
Risk to environment
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Can
Biotechnology
Be Used To
Feed The Poor?
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Should
Biotechnology
Be Used To
Feed The Poor?
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An Essay on
The Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus
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1798
Can agriculture be
sustainable?
Mexico City:
the worlds
largest city
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Norman E. Borlaug
Founder of the Green
Revolution
Developed High-Yield
Wheat Crops in Mexico
Introduced High-Yield
Wheat Crops to India
and Pakistan
1970 Nobel Prize
Laureate
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Machiavellian
Bioethics
Could it be that some applications should be
pursued for the Higher Good
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The History of
cience, Technology and the Publ
Has there ever been a new technology
that has been developed that has not
been implemented by the public if it were
useful?Regardless of risk or change?
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Visualize
Whirled
Peas
Sustainable
Agriculture
Global Ecology
Rain Forest or
Food?
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