General agriculture

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Anaerobiosis

Agriculture; General agriculture

The production of energy from nutrients without using oxygen.

Principal component analysis

Agriculture; General agriculture

Mathematical procedure that transforms a number of possibly correlated variables into a smaller number of uncorrelated variables called principal components.

A selective increase in the number of copies of a gene coding for a specific protein without a proportional increase in other genes. It occurs naturally via the excision of a copy of the repeating ...

Alum

Agriculture; General agriculture

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization. Common alum is the double sulphate of ...

Allozymes

Agriculture; General agriculture

An isozyme which differs from other variants of the enzyme as a result of an allelic difference. An allozyme differs in amino acid sequence from other forms of the same enzyme and is encoded by one ...

Grain and figure

Agriculture; General agriculture

The figure of a wood refers to the pattern caused by colour differences in the wood, and is also the pattern created by different types of grain. Grain refers to the direction in which the fibres of ...