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| What is the study of plants? |
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| What is the raising of crops and livestock for food or other uses? |
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| What are the five ways food crops can be classified? |
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| by cereals, root crops, legumes, fruits and nuts and vegetables, and spices and herbs and flavoring |
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| What is the major part of the human diet that is provided by crops in the grass family, especially corn, wheat, and rice |
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| What are roots or underground stems that are rich in carbs? |
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| What are things such as clover and alfalfa, are members of the pea family and bear seeds in pods? |
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| What is a part of a flowering plant that usually contains seeds? |
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| What is derived from the leaves, stems, seeds, and roots of nonwoody plants? |
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| What is a dry, hard fruit that doesn't split open to release its seed? |
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| What are used to add taste to food? |
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| What are some factors that have increased food production? |
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| fertilizers and pesticides |
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| What are some important medicines that plants provide? |
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| digitals, quinine, morphine, and anti-cancer drugs |
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| What are some of the nonfood products that plants provide? |
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| clothing, fabric dye, lumber, paper, cosmetics, fuel, cork, rubber, turpentine, and pesticides |
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| How do ornamental plants improve the human environment in many important ways? |
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| provide shade, minimize soil erosion, reduce noise, and lower home energy costs |
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| What is the study of the interactions between plants and the environment? |
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| What are most plant roots penetrated by which greatly increase the roots' ability to absorb inorganic nutrients, when in return, the root supplies the fungus with energy? |
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| How can the roots of many plant species help plants? |
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| they form beneficial associations with bacteria and some can take nitrogen gas from the air and convert it into a form that plants can use |
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| How many people suffer from allergies to pollen? |
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| selected by people for having at least one distinguishing characteristic that sets them apart from others in their species |
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| grasses that contain grains |
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| plant parts other than the leaf |
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| leaves that can usually be grown in a home garden |
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| comes from the bark of the cinchona tree and is used to treat malaria |
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| supplies plants with essential mineral nutrients like nitrogen and phosophorus |
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| chemicals that kill undesirable organisms that harm crops |
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| the world's most widely sues medicine |
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| alternative fuel for automobiles |
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| undesirable plants that often crowd out crop plants or native plant species |
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| allergic reaction that results in sneezing, runny nose, and watering eyes |
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