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| the raising of aquatic organisms for food in controlled environments |
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| Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) |
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| a naturally occuring soil bacterium that produces a protein that kills many pests, including caterpillars and the larvae of some flies and beetles |
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| biocontrol (biological control) |
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| the attempt to battle pests and weeds with organisms that prey on or parasitize them, rather than by sing pesticides |
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| the material application of biological science to create products derived of organisms |
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| a huge barn or outdoor pen designed to deliver energy rich food to animals living at extremely high densities. |
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| an adequate, reliable, and available food supply to all people at all times |
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| a storehouse for samples of the world's crop diversity |
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| any process scientists use to manipulate an organism's genetic material in the labby adding, deleting, or changing segments of its DNA |
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| genetically modified(GM)organisms |
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| an organism that has been geneticall engineered using a technique called recombinant DNA technology |
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| an intensification of the industrialization of agriculture in the developing world in the latter half of the 20th century that has dramatically increased crop yields produced per unit area of farmland |
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| integrated pest management (IPM) |
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| the use of multiple techniques in combination to achieve long-term suppression of pests, including biocontrol, use of pesticides, close monitoring of populations, habitat alteration, crop rotation, transgenic crops, alternative tilling methods, and mechanical pest removal |
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| the condition of lacking nutrients the body needs, including a complete complement of viatmins and minerals |
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| agriculture that uses no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides but instead relies in boilogical aproaches such as composting and boicontrol |
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| a condition of excessive food intake in which people receive more tahn their daily caloric needs |
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| an artificial chemical used to kill insects, plants, or fungi |
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| an interaction in which one organism (for example, bees) transfer pollen (male sex cells) from one flower to the ova (female cells) of another, fertilizing the female flower, which subssequently grows into a fruit. |
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| the idea that one should not undertake a new action until the ramifications of that action are well understood |
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| DNA that has been patched together from the DNA of multiple organisms in an attempt to produce desirable traits in organisms lacking those traits |
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| agriculture that does not deplete soils faster than they form them |
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| a gene that has been extracted from the DNA of one organism and transferred into the DNA of an organism of another species |
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| describes an organism that contains DNA from another species |
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| a condition of insufficient nutrition in which people receive less than 90% of their daily caloric needs |
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