Biological Controls
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1: Agresesearch
Website |
| Question 1: What is biocontrol? |
| Question 2: What is needed for biocontrol to work? |
| Question 3: What do we want in a good biocontrol method, (The Golden Bullet)? |
| Website 2: Agresearch Website::possums. Click the picture of the possum. |
| Question 4: What is the most serious animal pest in NZ? |
| Question 5: How much of our forests do possums eat each night? ____________tonnes |
| Question 6: Record 4 ways that possums affect our environment: |
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| Question 7: What disease do they carry? |
| Question 8: What Micro-organism causes this disease? |
| Website 3: http://www.biotechlearn.org.nz/multimedia/ and click the 'possum fertility control' interactive. |
| Question 9: What does the GnRH toxin do? |
| Complete the interactive task then answer the following questions: |
| Question 10: Which bait did not work? |
| Question 11: Which concentration of toxin was too weak? |
| Question 12: Why would you need to repeat the experiment with more than one possum? |
| End of web quest, well done... |