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organophosphates

Biology; Ecology

Chemicals that kill pests by ruining their nervous system. Originally developed by the Nazis during the 1930s for use as bioweapons--"weapons of mass production," as President Bush would say. ...

botanical pesticide

Biology; Ecology

One derived from plant chemicals (e.g., strychnine).

ecological equivalents

Biology; Ecology

Species that live far apart but in similar niches and ecosystems.

golgi apparatus

Biology; Ecology

A cell organelle that wraps proteins in vesicle packages for shipment outside the cell.

monophagus

Biology; Ecology

Predators that favor a single prey species.

terbiodegradasi

Biology; Ecology

Reduced by bacteria as opposed to something that stays in the environment (plastic waste, certain inustrial).

topocosm

Biology; Ecology

Theodore Gaster's word for the entire locality--soils, plants, animals, everything, yesterday, today, and tomorrow--taken as an organism. The Neoplatonists called it the anima mundi (World Soul).