MYP Unit 1: Genetically Modified Foods Worksheet 2

a) What is the science behind genetically modified foods?

-The ability to move genes from to other organisms

-The ability to modify DNA and genes

-Inserting more calcium, protiens, etc... into your food

b) What foods are affected by this technology?

-Alfalfa

-Apple

-Cherry tomato

-Strawberry

-Banana

-Potato

And many more

c) What are the problems with this technology?

-GM foods can harm the environment and living things
-It kills some insects including butterflies and insect larvae
-The chemicals used to genetically modify food is known to cause lots of common allergens 
-It  also gives out many unknown effects on human health

d) What action has been taken to try and prevent the technology developing?  

-So far FDA (Food and drug Administration, USA) they have sent a message to all schools. The Ministry of Health and Ministry of education in dubai, has stopped public arab schools to sell  junk foods. 

e) what how can you find out information about these questions?

-Internet

Internet Terminology

Com

.com stands for commercial, is the most common domain ending. .com is mostly used on commercial websites but it is also in some non commercial websites.

.Gov

.Gov stand for government, it is used for all government websites and political websites.

.Net

.Net stands for network. It is originally for network providers.

.Sch

.Sch stands for school, most school websites end in .Sch , EISM has an school site.

.Ac

In web addresses .ac stands for academic institution. Sometimes it is used for associations, it can also be used by anyone.

.Co

.Co stand for company it is a new domain ending which lots of people use if they have a company.

.Ed

.Ed stands for education, it is used for education web sites for example Myimaths.

.Org

.Org stands for organization it is sometimes used in internet browsers for example http://www.wikipedia.org

Internet Terminology

URL

URL stands for universal resource locater; it is the address of a World Wide Web page. For example the URL for Yahoo is http://en-maktoob.yahoo.com/?p=us

Export

Export is when you format data in such way that it can be used by another application. An app that can export data can create a file in a format that another application understands. So it lets the two programs share the same data.

Import

Import is when you transfer something from the internet to a application or application to application.

WWW

WWW stands for World Wide Web; it is a computer network, which contains lots of websites for example http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/world_wide_web.htm is a Web

Domain name

Domain names are use to recognize one or more IP addresses for example

The domain names of Microsoft are more than 12, So basically domain names are used to identify web pages in URls, for example this is our domain name https://grade7-myptechnology.wikispaces.com/file/view/Week+8+Class+work+%26+Home+work..pdf

Search engine

A search engine is something that you search web page or other stuff for example Google chrome is a search engine.

http://

This is hypertext transfer this is used on all web pages for example

http://www.google.com/ime/transliteration

Internet browser

An Internet browser is a software application, which has information and resources for example Wikipedia is Internet browser.