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Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biennial Weed | completes its life cycle in 2 years |
| Instars | a phase between two periods of molting in the development of an insect larva or other invertebrate animal |
| Noxious Weed | a plant considered harmful to animals or the environment |
| Vector | an organism that attaches another DNA to itself to put in another organism |
| Nematodes | a worm of the large phylum Nematoda, such as a roundworm or threadworm |
| Insect | a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings. |
| Chemical Control | Synthetic pesticides are generally only used as required and often only at specific times in a pests life cycle. Many of the newer pesticide groups are derived from plants or naturally occurring substances |
| Metamorphosis | (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form |
| Casual Agent | refers to the biological pathogen that causes a disease, such as a virus, parasite, fungus, or bacterium. |
| Perennial Weed | plants that live for several years |
| Hyphae | each of the branching filaments that make up the mycelium of a fungus |
| Diseases | a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, esp. one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury. |
| Disease Triangle | A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. |
| Bacteria | a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease. |
| Annual Weed | completes its life cycle in one year |
| Biological Control | the control of a pest by the introduction of a natural enemy or predator. |
| Pesticide Resistance | crops with the ability to resist insects |
| Cultural Control | the practice of modifying the growing environment to reduce the prevalence of unwanted pests |
| Arachnid | an arthropod of the class Arachnida, such as a spider or scorpion. |
| Viruses | an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host. |
| Eradication | eliminate completely |
| Key Pest | pest around which management programs are built. Examples are codling moth, oriental fruit moth and cherry fruit fly. |
| Quarantine | separate from others; isolation |
| Fungi | a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds. |
| Pathogens | a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease. |
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