1. (1 pt) You have used the BioRad GMO Investigator™ Kit to test whether your mo

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1. (1 pt) You have used the BioRad GMO Investigator™ Kit to test whether your morning breakfast of cornflakes and strawberries contains GMO foods. Your results are shown below Plant MM used for lanes 1, 3, 5, 7 and expected product is 455 bp. GMO MM used for lanes 2, 4, 6, 8 and expected products are 203/225 bp Non-GMO oats Cornflakes Strawberries GMO + DNA ladder 1 2 3 4 1kb |- 700 bp |- 500 bp |- 200 bp | 100 bp |-- Briefly explain your answers below. a) Do your cornflakes contain a genetically modified plant ingredient? b) Are your strawberries genetically modified?

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a)Yes, cornflakes contains a genetically modified plant ingredient.This is because the lanes that refer to cornflakes contain both plant MM band of 455bp (3rd lane ) as well as GMO MM (the 4th lane ).GMO MM contains an additional DNA marker that is present in cornflakes as shown by the band(203/225 bp) in the 4th lane.

b)No, strawberry is not genetically modified.In case of strawberry, it does not contain GMO MM band in the 6th lane which means it is not genetically modified.

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