NATS 1760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Blood Transfusion, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Natural Selection

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Planned modification all organisms are genetically modified from parents at inception (other terms, ge or transgenic) When someone talks about risk they mean uncertainty uncertainty and unintended consequences are still worth worrying about - when risk is used wrongly it means dangerous things that may happen. Framing debates over gmo (ge) claims to talk about making decisions on basis of. Sound science" are often attempts to impose restrictive frame. Trust if you cant figure out the science, use the reputation of the institution promoting it as an indirect way to look at it. A codon is a sequence of three dna or rna nucleotides that correspond with a specific amino acid or stop signal during protein synthesis. (3 letter sequence) We have 23 chromosomes, 1 extra chromosome leads to down syndrome. We are made up of cells nucleus and chromosomes; eukaryotic and prokaryotic (cells are mostly made of proteins) proteins make structures , which are made out of amino acids.