Programme 27: GM CROPS – 1. ČÁST

Some people see genetic modification as the answer to world hunger, while others say there will be environmental disaster. Roland Pease Genetically modified crops are crops where genes have been taken from different species and they've been put into crop plants.

You know, if it was a grain, it would be a bigger grain, a fatter grain, or it might be a shorter growing season or it might be drought tolerance. In genetically engineered crops, what scientists have found is, the'e found actual genes - these are the sort of the parts of the blueprint for life - which endow plants with those qualities, drought tolerance is one, another one would give you resistance to herbicides and then they can take them from any plant and put them in any other plant. VOCABULARY genetically modified or engineered crops - geneticky modifikované plodiny genes - geny species - druhy grain - zrno blueprint for life - genový vzorec života endow - vybavit drought tolerance - tolerance vůči suchu, schopnost růstu v obdobích sucha resistance to herbicides - odolnost vůči herbicidům