The Most Immediate Potential Benefits of Introducing Genetically Modified Crops

question 44

Multiple Choice

The most immediate potential benefits of introducing genetically modified crops include all of the following except

• A) increasing the amount of land suitable for agriculture.
• B) creating crops with better potential for biofuel production.
• C) creating crops with better nutritional attributes.
• D) increasing crop yield.
• E) decreasing the mutation rate of certain genes.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a dataset whose distribution forms a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve when plotted, characterized by specific mean and standard deviation values.

Independent

Describes a characteristic of variables in an experiment or study that are not influenced or caused by another variable.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the diversity or variability within a data set, reflecting how much individual data points differ from the mean.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.