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*** plantae — plants — bryophytes — pteridophytes — seed plants
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*** Order Caudata or Urodela ( salamanders, newts ): Jurassic to present — 571 current species in 10 families
*** Order Gymnophiona or Apoda ( caecilians ): Jurassic to present — 190 current species in 10 families
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*** dimethyltryptamine ( DMT ; " Dimitri ", " Disneyland ", " Spice "; found in most plants and animals as it is a common metabolite )
*** Megasporangia and microsporangia occur on the same sporophyte, which is then called monoecious. Most flowering plants fall into this category.
*** Second class destroyers ( and over 600 tons displacement — less than 1, 000 tons displacement ) — plants
*** Caladium, ornamental plants with arrowhead-shaped leaves originally from South America but widely cultivated
*** Opanci donaši: appeared at end of 19th C, and were made of tanned leather in various yellow & brown shades depending on the plants used for tanning-oak apple, sumac, juniper bark.
*** Icones plantarum rariorum horti regii botanici Berolinensis ( Berlin 1828-31 ) ( Illustrations of rare plants in the Berlin botanic garden )
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* three research-and-production enterprises — for mathematical machines, for the study of materials, and for automated control equipment — these being Soviet-era military-industrial plants
In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.
The concept encompasses a wide range of procedures ( and history ) for modifying living organisms according to human purposes — going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and " improvements " to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization.
Throughout the use of agriculture, farmers have inadvertently altered the genetics of their crops through introducing them to new environments and breeding them with other plants — one of the first forms of biotechnology.
The country has not discovered sources of fossil fuels — apart from minor coal deposits — but its mountainous terrain and abundant rainfall have permitted the construction of a dozen hydroelectric power plants, making it self-sufficient in all energy needs, except oil for transportation.
The energetic cost is high for plants which support nitrogen-fixing symbionts — as much as 25 % of GPP when measured in controlled conditions.
Ecosystem goods include the " tangible, material products " of ecosystem processes — food, construction material, medicinal plants — in addition to less tangible items like tourism and recreation, and genes from wild plants and animals that can be used to improve domestic species.
It was initially assumed the Mendelian inheritance only accounted for large ( qualitative ) differences, such as those seen by Mendel in his pea plants — and the idea of additive effect of ( quantitative ) genes was not realised until R. A. Fisher's ( 1918 ) paper, " The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance " Mendel's overall contribution gave scientists a useful overview that traits were inheritable.
He terms this as “ a life support system with the biological component of growing plants — called a bioregenerative life support system.
Kingdoms are divided into phyla ( singular: phylum ) — for animals ; the term division, used for plants and fungi, is equivalent to the rank of phylum ( and the current International Code of Botanical Nomenclature allows the use of either term ).
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In contrast with many trees, aspen bark is base-rich, meaning that aspens are important hosts for bryophytes and act as food plants for the larvae of butterfly ( Lepidoptera ) species — see List of Lepidoptera that feed on poplars.
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** Plant development: seed — cotyledon — meristem — apical meristem — vascular cambium — cork cambium
This discourse with Nicodemus established the Christian belief that all human beings — whether Jew or Gentile — must be " born again " of the spiritual seed of Christ.
The first generation is created by applying the above rules simultaneously to every cell in the seed — births and deaths occur simultaneously, and the discrete moment at which this happens is sometimes called a tick ( in other words, each generation is a pure function of the preceding one ).
The term " seed " also has a general meaning that antedates the above — anything that can be sown, e. g. " seed " potatoes, " seeds " of corn or sunflower " seeds ".
However, stream ciphers can be susceptible to serious security problems if used incorrectly: see stream cipher attacks — in particular, the same starting state ( seed ) must never be used twice.
But the Oxford English Dictionary notes that some scholars doubt this ; it also mentions a possible origination in the word, from Basque — a non-Indo-European tongue — in which it is a compound of, seed +, dry.
In the context of developing nations or other pre-industrial cultures, most farmers practice a meager subsistence agriculture — a simple organic farming system employing crop rotation, seed saving, slash and burn, or other techniques to maximize efficiency while meeting the needs of the household or community.
Earlier triticale hybrids had four reproductive disorders — namely, meiotic instability, high aneuploid frequency, low fertility and shriveled seed ( Muntzing 1939 ; Krolow 1966 ).
Each seed has a surrounding water-laden pulp — the edible aril — ranging in color from white to deep red or purple.
Bowling remembers the slow and painful decline of his father's seed business — resulting from the nearby establishment of corporate competition.
Monsanto also produces seed that has multiple modifications, also known as " stacked traits " — for instance, cotton that make one or more Bt proteins and is resistant to glyphosate.
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