Genetically Modified (GM) Salmon Have Now Been Approved for Sale

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Essay

Genetically modified (GM) salmon have now been approved for sale in the United States. What environmental concern has been expressed about these salmon? What is being considered to reduce this risk?

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Definitions:

Successful Operations

Activities or series of activities within a process which achieve the intended goals or objectives efficiently and effectively.

Poisson Approximation

A statistical technique used to approximate the probabilities of events with a very low probability over a large number of trials.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of random variable that takes the number of successes in a fixed number of trials of a binomial experiment, where each trial results in a success or failure, with the probability of success being the same for all trials.

Cumulative Binomial Probabilities

The sum of the probabilities of obtaining all outcomes up to a specified point in a binomial distribution.