Agri-food, fibre and fuel technologies

Category Unit of work
Subjects & Topics "Biology"
Year Levels Year 11, Year 12
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This document is a student guide with activities which investigate and highlight the range of developing technologies which are transforming agricultural management and production.

Chapter titles include:

  • Biotechnology - DNA, gene, genetically modified organism (GMO), gene markers, genetic engineering and protein synthesis

  • Implications of biotechnology in the agri-foods, fibre and fuel industries

  • The importance of food safety and labelling of GMOs

  • Investigating the issues relating to food production using GMOs

  • Investigating regulations that surround the development and use of GMOs and biotechnology

  • The role of biosecurity

  • Biofuel production and sustainable world food demands 

  • Current developments in biotechnology including biofuels, biopesticides, rumen modification, gene markers, vaccine production, embryo and sperm testing and embryo splitting

  • Ethical concerns of increased production

  • Uses of biotechnology in agriculture such as genetic modification of crops to incorporate resistance to pests and diseases, herbicide tolerance, slowing the ripening of fruit or altering the timing and duration of flower production

  • Biofuel production

  • The need for research

Suggested answers document available at the NSW Department of Primary Industries School Programs page. (www.dpi.nsw.gov.au)

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Agrifood, fibre and fuel technologies Study guide.pdf
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