Question

And exmaple Case study on Genetically Modified Organisms

Answer 1

Explanation:

The commercial production of genetically engineered crops has prompted countries around the world to adopt risk assessment procedures for evaluating the safety of transgenic cultivars. Most concern has been directed at the risk that a genetically modified crop may itself be made more weedy as a result of its recombinant trait, or may, through hybridization and introgression, contribute genes to a wild relative, consequently making the related plant more weedy (reviewed in Williamson, 1993; Rissler and Mellon, 1996; Bergelson et al., in press). Additional risks include the environmental fate of plant products (such as degradation versus accumulation of novel endotoxins in soils) and altered agricultural practices (such as increased application of herbicides; Rissler and Mellon, 1996). Although these ecological risks are widely thought to be on average minimal, the tremendous variety of plant attributes that are potentially modifiable renders blanket pronouncements of safety untenable. Moreover, because experience with transgenic crops is still limited, the formal development of risk assessment procedures faces the challenge of anticipating problems with traits that have not yet been developed let alone patented or commercialized.