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Animal&Plant Science
Ms. Thomas Unit A Review Cards
| Question or Term | Answer or Defintion |
|---|---|
| Ornamental Horticulture | The cultivation of plants for aesthetic purposes;includes indoor and outdoor plants and landscaping, and the floral industry |
| Plant Science | Includes all the careers related to plant production, research, biotechnology, plant hybridization |
| Animal Science | The care, production, and processing of animals for food and their byproducts |
| Forestry | The care and management of our public and private forests; may include urban tree and forest management careers |
| Ag Mechanics | The construction, design, and operation of agricultural equipment, structures, and facilities |
| Ag Business | Generally concerned with the fiscal/financial aspect of agriculture; may include ag service businesses, ag fi nance, sales and marketing, and trade |
| Expert Vote | decision making method where the person who knows the most makes the decision; used when not many people know about something but you need a group decision |
| Consensus | decision making method where everyone agrees on something; use when you need everyone to be committed to something |
| P.P.E | Personal Protective Equipment |
| Example of P.P.E | Lab coat, safety glasses, gloves, closed toe shoes |
| Agriculture | Production of food and fiber |
| Food | Diet of humans |
| Fiber | Material used either from plants or animals to make fabric and clothing |
| Natural Resources | The natural existing source of raw materials for life and beauty in the environment |
| World Population | Total number of humans living on the planet |
| Commodity | raw agricultural prodcut |
| Product | result of an agricultural product |
| What are the commodities in a cheeseburger? | Beef, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers |
| What are the products in a cheeseburger? | cheese, pickles, mayo,mustard, |
| Hippocrates | “Father of Medicine”, created Hippocratic oath, studied ethics |
| Louis Pasteur | founded the science of microbiology, created the process of pasteurization-sterilizing milk |
| Ben Carson | Separated Siamese twins |
| Gregor Mendel | “Father of Genetics”, worked with pea plants, determined that genes passed from parents to offspring |
| James Watson & Francis Crick | Discovered structure of DNA |
| Ian Wilmut | cloned the first adult mammal, Dolly the sheep |
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