DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions

Part 1)

1)

Allowed to ripen on the vine naturally, this ruby tomato comes to your table with more homegrown taste. By drawing on the best traditions of crossbreeding, biotechnology has created a better-tasting tomato, available year-round. Although it may be as pretty as a plastic fruit, this tomato has been produced by introducing modified organisms into the plant's natural genetic material. It is the product of laboratory manipulations whose consequences for consumer health and for the environment are unknown. These two paragraphs describe the same tomato (Livesey, 2002).

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