The Information Age

• COBOL means Common Business Oriented Language.

• WWW means World Wide Web
• Asia- the highest number of internet users worldwide in 2018
• Alan Turing -is considered as the foundation of research in Artificial Intelligence.
• Turing-complete- type of machine can simulate other functions that general
machines perform

Biodiversity and Healthy Society

Golden Rice- Regulation by countries is the main cause of delay in the
application of Golden rice
Agroecology- includes human labor
Read the ff- Permaculture, Agro-forestry, Forest gardening, Land
systematics
Advantages of Agroecology
• Multi- functional farming
• Environmental stability and resilience- it teaches communities how
to ethically use natural resources
• Reduces dependence on costly external input
• Increase of diversity and variety in production - teaches farmers
which crops grow well with each other and when to plant them
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Principles and Practices of Agroecology

Sustainability principles and practices

• Set of principles and practices which help reduce the unnecessary
waste produced during farming.
• Help increase the financial gain of farmers

GMOs
 Bacillus thuringiensis- is the organism do the toxins being incorporated
in plant genes for insect resistance.
 DNA influence- is the term used to describe the technology used in
creating GMOs
 Genes of organisms- genetic engineering manipulate
 Gene technology- is a term used to describe the technology used in
creating GMOs
 GM crop- referring to produce that has been genetically altered
 Delete or add parts of modified DNA into a living being is now possible with the
use of technology