In an upcoming election, there are several propositions on the ballot that involve biology, the environment, human health, biotechnology and topics related to what you have learned about in this course. Your friend hasn’t had time to read through the ballot propositions, so you decide to help them out by explaining one of them.   Look at your group name to find out which proposition you will explain to your friend, then click on the corresponding link below to learn about it:   Proposition 1: Plastic Tax to Fund GM Bacteria  Proposition 2: Bioplastics  Proposition 3: EnviroPig Proposition 4: Transgenic Poplars Post Requirements Explain the proposition to your friend by answering the following questions in your own words.  Once you post your answers, take a look at what your classmates said about this proposal before moving on to the next assignment. You will not be able to see the replies of other people in your group until after you have posted. Explain or list the problem(s) that this proposal aims to address. What is the biotechnology technique that is used to address the problem(s). What are potential environmental or ethical concerns that might come up regarding this proposal? Describe or list some points in support of this proposal. Describe or list some points opposing this proposal.

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Online access ARTICLE: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253.fullThis is a peer-reviewed article, meaning it was reviewed by research experts before it was approved for publishing. You will notice that this type of article is written in a language that is, likely, not familiar to us. You should not expect to understand it on your first read. Allow yourself to read it at least twice before starting your summaryA summary of this article should be written by answering the questions below. This summary should be handed in individually. The extension Turnitin.com will be used to compare answers; any copied or highly similar answer will not be graded. This, obviously, exempts short answers (up to a sentence long) that were retrieved from the text.Answers should be paraphrased, not copied directly from the text. Answers directly copied from the text will also not be graded (the same exception applies). Answers should, instead, be paraphrased/written in your own words.Answer the following questions:How did this peer-reviewed article differ from every-day, news articles? Which questions were addressed by the authors for this particular paper?What does “empirically derived” mean?How do the authors justify the questions asked?What is considered to be “modern extinction”?What are the five vertebrate taxa considered in this study?The authors focused on using conservative rates of modern extinction in order to avoid skepticism and to see if the use of the term “6th mass extinction” is still justified. They used two different categories: “highly conservative rates” and “conservative rates”. What were the criteria used for each category (see Table 1)?Why is 1900 considered separately from 1500 as the time for modern extinction rates?Answer the authors’ three research questions.According to the authors, how does the loss of biodiversity affect human well-being?Outside of human well-being, why do you think we should care about the loss of biodiversity?Do the authors believe that the exceptionally rapid loss of species (6th mass extinction) is still a questionable (controvertible) issue? Justify.On a human time scale, do the authors consider the loss of biodiversity (and biodiversity benefits) permanent? Why or why not?We've learned earlier this semester that mass extinction is one of the events leading to adaptive radiation. Why should the 6th mass extinction be seen as particularly alarming rather than just a means to adaptive radiation?What suggestions do the authors make to avoid such loss (specifically, what are three notably important issues that must be urgently dealt with)?