The Use of Biotechnological Approaches for the Improvement of Crop

question 116

Multiple Choice

The use of biotechnological approaches for the improvement of crop plants has been more controversial than their use to prepare medically useful products. Why?

• A) People eat food that could contain transgenes.
• B) Crops are grown outside, and there is a chance that a transgene could escape to other organisms.
• C) Herbicide-resistance could spread to weed species.
• D) Beneficial insects could be harmed by plants expressing the BT toxin.
• E) All of the above

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Definitions:

Equivalent Units

A concept in process costing that converts partially completed units into an equivalent number of fully completed units to measure output in a consistent way.

Process Costing System

An accounting method used to allocate costs to units of production in continuous processes, suitable for homogenous products.

Work In Process Inventory

The direct materials costs, the direct labor costs, and the applied factory overhead costs that have entered into the manufacturing process but are associated with products that have not been finished.

Work In Process Inventory

The value of unfinished goods in the production process at a given point in time.