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plants and are
In order to attract new industries, 15 states or more are issuing tax free bonds to build government owned plants which are leased to private enterprise.
In the clay are entombed millions of pollen grains and spores which came from plants growing in the region at the time.
or a skilled labor force is trained before there are plants available in which they can be employed.
They are conscious of this state's new feeling of optimism and assurance and are definitely impressed by the number of new plants and construction projects in Rhode Island.
Our take-up machines and our twister-coners are undergoing important pilot plant testing for application with new high polymer yarns, in several fiber producing plants.
When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.
If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.
A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
They are all suburban plants, relying on the roads to keep them supplied with workers.
The plants along Route 128 are mostly well designed and nicely set against the New England rocks and trees.
I now grok you are my people -- teach plants another way.
Most are photosynthetic like plants, and " simple " because their tissues are not organized into the many distinct organs found in land plants.
Algae lack the various structures that characterize land plants, such as phyllids ( leaves ) and rhizoids in nonvascular plants, or leaves, roots, and other organs that are found in tracheophytes ( vascular plants ).
Many food plants are, or are grown as, annuals, including virtually all domesticated grains.

plants and being
Even though they do not compete directly with cultivated plants, sometimes winter annuals are considered a pest in commercial agriculture, because they can be hosts for insect pests or fungal diseases ( ovary smut – Microbotryum sp ) which attack crops being cultivated.
The subfamily is of considerable economic importance, being grown as vegetables and seasoning, medicinal plants and ornamentals.
* 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
Tuna fishing and processing plants are the backbone of the private sector, with canned tuna being the primary export.
In many animistic world views found in hunter-gatherer cultures, the human being is often regarded as on a roughly equal footing with other animals, plants, and natural forces.
Brews can also be made with no DMT-containing plants ; Psychotria viridis being substituted by plants such as Justicia pectoralis, Brugmansia, or sacred tobacco, also known as Mapacho ( Nicotiana rustica ), or sometimes left out with no replacement.
Moreover they argued that some species have been created for the purpose of being sacrificed and eaten by humans, that it is normal for animals to kill and eat other animals, that agriculture, too, inevitably leads to the death of many animals, that plants are living beings as well and must still be destroyed, that we unintentionally and unknowingly destroy life forms all the time, and that a hunted animal has a fair chance to survive by killing the hunter.
This behavior leads to many normally biennial plants being treated as annuals in some areas.
A considerable amount of new knowledge today is being generated from studying model plants like Arabidopsis thaliana.
However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.
It provides a rich growing medium, or a porous, absorbent material that holds moisture and soluble minerals, providing the support and nutrients in which plants can flourish, although it is rarely used alone, being primarily mixed with soil, sand, grit, bark chips, vermiculite, perlite, or clay granules to produce loam.
Also, while it is customary to think of plants on one side of the oxygen and nitrogen cycles as being sessile, and of animals on the other side as being motile, this is not a biological imperative.
There are also 134 species of plants classified as " weedy " or " naturalised alien species ", being those unintentionally introduced by man, or intentionally introduced as ornamentals or crop plants which have now " gone native ", including 32 new species recorded since 1995, indicating a very rapid rate of introduction.
The roots of the trees and plants hold together soil particles, preventing them from being washed away.
Items not included in the legal definition of food include animal feed, live animals ( unless being prepared for sale in a market ), plants prior to harvesting, medicinal products, cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco products, narcotic or psychotropic substances, and residues and contaminants.
The Polygalaceae is fairly well researched among plant families, in part due to the large diversity of the genus Polygala, and also due to members of the family, like the Fabaceae, being food plants for various Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species.
Genetically engineered plants and animals capable of producing biotechnology drugs more cheaply than current methods ( called pharming ) are also being developed, and in 2009 the United States FDA approved the sale of the pharmaceutical protein antithrombin produced in the milk of genetically engineered goats.
Indeed, plants growing in a typical traditional gravel filter bed, with water circulated using electric powerhead pumps, are in effect being grown using gravel hydroponics.
Nuclear power plants operate with k = 1 unless the power level is being increased or decreased.
The primary goals being to improve nuclear safety, improve proliferation resistance, minimize waste and natural resource utilization, and to decrease the cost to build and run such plants.
Olives are now being looked at for use as a renewable energy source, using waste produced from the olive plants as an energy source that produces 2. 5 times the energy generated by burning the same amount of wood.

plants and taught
He taught Linnaeus to classify plants according to Tournefort's system.
Linnaeus was also taught about sexuality of plants, according to Sébastien Vaillant.
Later, he opened factories in several other cities and taught the business to others, who operated their own plants.
De Bary ’ s youthful interest in plants and in examination of fungi and algae were inspired by George Fresenius, a physician, who also taught botany at Senckenberg Institute.
The girls were then taught to cook, prepare hides for leather, and gather wild plants and berries.
During Cheng's childhood, his mother took him out to find medicinal plants and taught him the fundamentals of traditional Chinese herbal medicine.
" But his work with native British plants did allow him to get away to the countryside, where he " began to get an idea ( which should be taught to every boy at
In Chinese mythology Shennong, besides having taught humans the use of the plow together with other aspects of basic agriculture, the use of medicinal plants, and having been a god of the burning wind ( perhaps in some relationship to the Yan Emperor mythos and / or slash-and-burn agriculture, in which the ash produced by fire fertilizes the fields ), was sometimes said to be a progenitor to, or to have had appointed as one of his ministers, Chi You ; and like him, they were both ox-headed, sharp-horned, bronze-foreheaded, and iron-skulled.
An older and more famous reference is in the Huainanzi ; it tells how, prior to Shennong, people were sickly, wanting, starved and diseased ; but he then taught them agriculture, which he himself had researched, eating hundreds of plants — and even consuming seventy poisons in one day.
Reluctantly at first and systematically later on, Libo and his assistants taught the pequeninos the use of arrows and other undiscovered tools, the basics of herding and agriculture, and they even modified certain human plants to make them better fit for pequenino consumption.
He was deeply influenced by his grandfather, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in his native state.
He professed the most open materialism, denied immortality in all forms and taught that the soul of man is homogeneous with the soul of animals and plants, material in origin and incapable of separate existence.
Elementary agriculture is taught in public schools and private schools, and deals with such subjects as how plants and animals grow and how soil is farmed and conserved.
The first new medicine and herb plants that taught mankind how to defend against sickness and conjurey come out now.

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