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Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Enviorment | the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded |
| Plant Breeding | The selection and collection of seeds from desirable plants to encourage their traits in future plant production. |
| Enzyme | A large, complex protein molecule produced by the body that stimulates or speeds up various chemical reactions without being used up itself; an organic catalyst. |
| Rennin | A coagulant enzyme occurring particu- larly in the gastric juice of calves and also in some plants and lower animals. |
| Fermentation | The processing of food by means of yeasts, molds, or bacteria. |
| Yeast | A yellowish substance composed of mi- croscopic, unicellular fungi of the family Saccha- romycetaceae that induces fermentation in juices, worts, doughs, and so forth. |
| Heredity | The traits that are passed to an off- spring from the parents. |
| Law of Segregation | A law, developed by Gregor Mendel in the nineteenth century, that says that the factors responsible for the traits from each par- ent are separated and then combined with factors from the other parent at fertilization. |
| Law of independence | A principle or law states that factors (genes) for certain char- acteristics are passed from parent to the next gen- eration separate from other alleles that transmit other traits |
| Assortment | The varitty of traits passed on from one generation to another |
| Cells | The ultimate functional unit of an organic structure, plant, or animal. It consists of a micro- scopic mass of protoplasm that includes a nucleus surrounded by a membrane. In most plants, it is surrounded by a cell wall. |
| Vaccines | A substance that contains live, modi- fied, or dead organisms or their products that is injected into an animal in an attempt to protect the host from a disease caused by that particular organism. |
| Antibiotics | Germ-killing substances produced by a bacterium or mold. |
| Artificial Insemination | A type of cloning in the plant world that more likely ensures that a desir- able species will be reproduced." |
| Embryo Transfer | The process of removing an embryo from a superior female and implanting it into an inferior female. |
| Genetic Code | The order in which four chemi- cal constituents are arranged in huge molecules of DNA; these molecules transmit genetic informa- tion to the cells by synthesizing ribonucleic acid in a corresponding order. |
| Varial Gene Disorder | Where many of the genes experience a type of disorder with the order that the genes are supossed to be pre alighned in |
| DNA | A genetic pro- teinlike nucleic acid on plant and animal genes and chromosomes that controls inheritance |
| Double Helix | Description of the two spiral- shaped strands of phosphoric acid and deoxyribose found within the nucleus of cells." |
| Genetic Engineering | An organism that has had a gene artificially inserted or removed. |
| Horizontal Gene Transfer | "A process in which microbes are natural “genetic engineers” transfer- ring genetic material between cells." |
| Gene Splicing | The process of removing and/or inserting genetic material in order to change an organism’s trait(s). |