Which of the Following Is NOT a Potential Benefit of Using

question 62

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a potential benefit of using transgenic plants?

• A) They can reduce the use of harmful chemical pesticides in the United States and thus provide an ecological benefit.
• B) They can generate restriction enzyme sites on a foreign gene of interest to be cloned.
• C) They often increase yields, providing more food per acre and reducing the amount of land needed for agricultural use.
• D) They can allow crops to be grown on land previously unavailable for productive agricultural use.
• E) They can be used to express large quantities of specific biological products more cheaply and quickly than by expression in animal systems.

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