Crop

Crop parasites (Dutch Elm Disease, Karnal Bunt, Corn Smut, etc.).
Mushrooms (Agaricus campestris, the commercial mushroom), molds, mildews, rusts and smuts (plant parasites), yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisae, the brewer's yeast).
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In vertebrates, it is an expanded part of the esophagus where food is stored while in invertebrates it is an expansion of the anterior part of the gut system where food is either digested or stored.
Covered in Lab 12 Animal Diversity II ...
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top crop. Fruit produced in the second fruiting cycle of cotton, mainly on upper branches.
toxin. A poisonous substance produced by a living organism.
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many crop pests
Prior to the introduction of DDT, the number of cases of malaria in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was more than a million a year. By 1963 the disease had been practically eliminated from the island.
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Standing crop. The amount of living material per unit area or volume; may be expressed as grams of carbon, total dry weight, and so on ...
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standing crop total amount of plant or animal material in an area at any one time
standing stock The total amount, or biomass, of an organism at a given time.
stapes Stirrup-shaped innermost bone of the middle ear.
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How protect your crop from the corn borer before BT corn was available?
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BIO Global Biotech Crop Acreage Statistics
SCOPE GM Food Forum
Contains a discussion forum along with a range of learning resources and links.
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Usually the location in the world where the oldest cultivation of a particular crop has been identified. Central dogma. Francis Crick's seminal concept that in nature genetic information generally flows from DNA to RNA to protein. Centrifugation.
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To name just one, the observed development of resistance - to insecticides in crop pests, to antibiotics in bacteria, to chemotherapy in cancer cells, ...
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Peaches are considered self-fertile because a commercial crop can be produced without cross-pollination, though cross-pollination usually gives a better crop. Apples are considered self-incompatible, because a commercial crop must be cross-pollinated.
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Defenders of the term genetic engineering argue that animal husbandry and crop breeding are also forms of genetic engineering that use artificial selection instead of modern genetic modification techniques.
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Because there are only so many ways to arrange the four nucleotides--A,C,G and T--into a four or eight or twelve nucleotide sequence, recognition sequences tend to "crop up" by chance in any long sequence.
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Freshwater biomes supply us with our drinking water and water for crop irrigation. The world's oceans have an even greater effect on global climate than forests do.
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Eventual extinction of a natural species as massive pollen flow occurs from another related species and the older crop becomes more like the new crop.
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Common for many (perennial) crop plants, such as fruit trees, potatoes.
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In the future, biotechnology may be able to improve crop yields and produce plants that contain all of the amino acids required for human consumption.
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Sampling: Estimating the density of organisms (pests or natural enemies) or damage by examining a defined portion of the crop.
Scouting, Scout: see Sampling.
Septicemia: Blood poisoning caused by pathogenic organisms.
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