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First the actual venom of the scorpion has to be engineered to be harmless to humans, then this venom must be implemented into the cabbage.
Venomous Cabbage
Red winged blackbirds commonly feast on the caterpillars and larvae that live off of cabbage. The venom will kill many of the caterpillars, meaning that the blackbirds food source will diminish.
Venom comes from Androctonus Australis Hector and its modified venom is called AaIT. This substance attacks the motor nerves of insects. The vemon is made of 70 amino acids and can originally cause necrosis and tissue damamage.
It is concluded that after this purification process that the venom only affects insects, such as catipillars by attacking the nervous and barely does any harm on human cells.
Scientist that work for the GMO Company in California, Geogia, Texas and New York are trying this experiment to help the growth of cabbage in the U.S. Some scientist in Iowa have been trying it, but not as much cabbage is grown here.
By: Meagan Brown
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Bill Nye was the one who invented the venomous cabbage, and explained what was needed to create this venomous cabbage.
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