Two main disadvantages of controlling insect pests involve uncertainty about how genetic modifications might affect other plant genes or characteristics, potential harm to other organisms that consume the modified plant, ethical concerns about genetic engineering, difficulty predicting mutation effects, and the risk of creating human toxins.
Two main disadvantages of controlling insect pests involve uncertainty about how genetic modifications might affect other plant genes or characteristics, potential harm to other organisms that consume the modified plant, ethical concerns about genetic engineering, difficulty predicting mutation effects, and the risk of creating human toxins.
| Front | Give 2 main disadvantages for controlling insect pests
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| Back | Any 2 of below:
-Not sure how the gene will affect other tomato genes / characteristics / named characteristic
-Toxin might affect other organisms that feed on plant
-Genetic engineering unethical/unnatural
-Can't predict the effect of mutations
-Could mutate to form a human toxin
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