Monohybrid cross

A cross between two individuals that are both heterozygous for the same pair of alleles (e.g., Aa x Aa). By extension, the term also refers to crosses involving the purebreeding ...

monohybrid cross

Agriculture; Rice science

A cross between two parents differing in one gene.

monohybrid cross

Biology; Biochemistry; Molecular biology

A cross between two individuals identically heterozygous at one gene pair for example, Aa x Aa.

monohybrid cross

Science; General science

A genetic cross between parents that differ in the alleles they possess for one particular gene, one parent having two dominant alleles and the other two recessives. All the ...

watershed

Agriculture; Rice science

The total area from which a single river collects surface water runoff; the catchment or drainage area of a river system.

watershed degradation

Agriculture; Rice science

A marked deterioration in the hydrological behavior of a river system which reduces the potential of land and water by causing a water flow of inferior quality, quantity and ...

waterlogging

Agriculture; Rice science

Impeded drainage; or soil saturated with water but not necessarily with standing water.

waterlogged field

Agriculture; Rice science

A field which continuously has standing water and cannot be drained. The water level may not be deep.

water use efficiency

Agriculture; Rice science

1). Expressed in terms of dry matter or harvested portion of the crop produced per unit of water consumed. 2). Ratio of the water used for evapotranspiration, seepage, and ...

water table

Agriculture; Rice science

The upper surface of ground water and the level below it where the soil is saturated with water.

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Atlantis

An island alleged by tradition to have existed in the ocean W. of the Pillars of Hercules; Plato has given a beautiful picture of this island, and an ...