cover of episode 222. What is Gene-Edited Food? And Should We Be Eating It? (English Vocabulary Lesson)

222. What is Gene-Edited Food? And Should We Be Eating It? (English Vocabulary Lesson)

2023/4/5
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What is gene-edited food? Why is it controversial? And should we be eating it? Let’s discuss this today and learn some new vocabulary at the same time!

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Vocabulary

- **Gene (n) - **a part of the DNA in a cell that controls the physical development, behaviour, etc. of an individual plant or animal and is passed on from its parents.

- **Resilient (adj) - **able to improve quickly after being hurt or being ill.

- **To breed (v) - **to keep animals or plants for the purpose of producing young animals or plants, often for chosen qualities.

- **Organism (n) - **a single living plant, animal, virus, etc.

- **Mutation (n) - **the way in which genes change and produce permanent differences:

- **To exacerbate (v) - **to make something that is already bad even worse.

- **Yield (n) - **an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied.


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