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Animal&Plant Science
Ms. Thomas Unit A Review Cards
Question or Term | Answer or Defintion |
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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 |