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#5) - What are the costs and benefits of genetically engineered crops?

Benefits: __Pest resistance.__ __Herbicide tolerance.__ __Disease resistance.__ __Cold tolerance.__ __Drought tolerance.__ __Nutrition.__ Those are many of the reasons why it is beneficial to buy genetically modified plants. It will be alot harder for the plant to die and also it will stay healthy without the worry of pests or diseases coming and killing them.



Costs: Every year millions of dollars are used to keep the genetically modified food healthy by spraying the plants with pesticides and other chemicals. But for some reason more and more farms are converting over to GM crops. It is because the farmers will know for a fact that their plants will not die for some reason due to a bug or disease, and will make the full amount of money from their farm.




 * 1) 6) - What role does biodiversity play in protecting food crops?

Biodiversity helps protect food crops because it is trying to keep the environment as healthy as possible. With biodiversity protecting the food crops it can help the plants stay natural, and not genetically modified. Biodiversity boosts the ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. The healthier the ecosystem, the better it can withstand or recover from a variety of disasters.