ENTRY #6


Labeling GMOs
In the United States, labeling GMO is not required even though 80% of the food in the United States are genetically modified. In the 2012 ballot people would decide if they want GMO to be labeled. There are 21 countries and the European that has demand for the food to be labeled if they are Genetically Modified. There are many reasons why GMO should be labeled, but the most important one is that all the people deserves to know what is in their food. The other reasons could be that people that are allergic should know what they are consuming and also because of religious reasons which they may not want to eat animal, including animal DNA. I think this should change and they should label every product that are GMO. It should be changed because we have the rights to know what is in our food and if it is not labeled we do not know what it has and we don't know what we are eating. People that are against GMO would want to avoid GM food and would not want to take risk of eating GM food. They do not want to take the risk because they do not know what other genes the food may contain and what health risk it could bring to them.

Entry #5

In the articles Helpful Tips for avoiding GMOs and GMO Alert: top 10 genetically modified foods to avoid eating, it has information about the foods that are available for human consumption and the diseases it may cause. In the first article I read it mentioned that 86% of corn, 90% of soybeans, and 93% of cotton are genetically modified. By avoiding them you could start planting your own vegetables and fruits which for many people it is hard.  Each of the GM crops brings chemicals that either harm people or the enviroment. In the other article it talks about the Morgello's disease that could be caused by eating geneticallymodified food.GMO brings health risk that no one may know how to cure it. This two articles supports my views of been against GMO because it talks about a disease that could be caused of GM food. It also tells us about what foods are Genetically Modified and how could they harm humans. In my opinion GMO should not be used because it causes many unexpected health risk and it is harmful for the environment.

• http://www.naturalnews.com/035472_GMOs_avoiding_soy.html
• http://www.naturalnews.com/035734_GMOs_foods_dangers.html

ENTRY #4

My conculsion from my gel results did not come out as I expected  because my partner and I made a mistake that we are not sure what went wrong. There are many things that could of gone wrong. I think that what went wrong is that we disturbed the pellet when we were suppose to leave it alone.

This is the gel results from another group that had to do the same thing and that test it on fresh corn. As you could see the difference is that we had a band at 7 but not at 5. In their column numer 6 their is a band that is really dark and could be seen easily. Since, our graph did not come out as if we could tell if the corn was GMO or not we had to do some research. I found out that 86% of corn that are planted in the United States are Genetically Modified, so most likely the corn my partner and I tested was a GM corn.

ENTRY #3 

GMO lab 

For my biotechnology class we got into groups and test different organism that might of contain GMO. 

My partner and I tested a fresh corn if it contain GMO. There was 4 steps we had to do in order that we could find out if the corn had GMO those steps are.. 

1. DNA extraction of food products 
2. Set up PCR reaction 
3. Gel electrophoresis of PCR product 
4. Analysis and interpretation of results

What is PCR and what is it's purpose? 

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is to amplify a specific gene. In order to do PCR you would need template which is helps the DNA be amplified and 2 primers which is a foward and reverse primers. We did PCR in this lab so we could take a specific gene from the corn and test it that way we could know if it contains GMO or not. 

ENTRY #2 

How GMOs are made?
In order to make GMOs there are three components that are the gene that is been transferred, the organism that would be receiving the gene and a vector to carry the gene from it's original organism to the other organism wanted. In order for the gene to be transferred it must be cut out from it's original organism, it is cut by a restriction enzyme that cuts the DNA at a specific point.


An example of the genetic engineering process for agricultural crops
The genetic engineering process for agriculture crops is that they take out the DNA of the organism and transfer it into another organism to make it better. They are known as the GM crop or genetically engineered crops. The Crops are sprayed with chemicals to get rid of bugs and they change the DNA so that they could grow faster and grow in a way they want it to grow.

http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/

                                                         http://www.itmonline.org/arts/gmo.htm

ENTRY#1

What are GMOs and what is it's purpose? 
GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms in which a gene is taken out from one organism and gets transfered into another organism. The purpose of genetically modifying food is too get more of that product or to make it grow faster and bigger and in any season.


GMOs that are available for human consumption

• Corn 
• Papaya 
• Soy 
• Rice 
• Tomatoes 
• Potatoes 
• Dairy Products 
• Peas 
• Canola 
• Squash 

Why GMOs should not be used?
Genetically Modified Organisms should not be used because they have not proven that it is safe to eat, have unexpected health risk, and it harms the environment. They have not proven that it is healthy to eat GM food meaning that there could be risks of eating them. By eating GM food the health risk increases because the GM food causes unexpected allergies. For example, if a person is allergic to peanut and they eat a corn they would not take there allergy medicine because they are not eating peanut , but they do not know that the corn is genetically modified and that a peanut gene is inside the corn which cause that persons allergies. All the chemical that GMOs has it is harmful to the environment and to humans even though they say they have the solution to those problems.

http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/the-non-gmo-gmo/#.T9YgStVYtZg