High-Tech Harvest

By Elizabeth L. Marshall

An overview of recombined DNA technology, or genetic engineering, techniques used to create crop plants and farm animals with characteristics that are attractive to farmers, food processors, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531114341
• ISBN13: 9780531114346
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Great book for middle-high schoolers

This book is a fantastic book for kids. It Makes the complicated science of genetic engineering seem as clear as possible while giving examples of foods that would capture a teen's attention (such as potatoes that are scientifically engineered to absorb less oil when made into french fries.