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General agriculture
General terms related to agriculture that do not fit any other product category.
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Gene conversion
Agriculture; General agriculture
The asymmetrical segregation of genes during replication which leads to the production of non-reciprocal recombinant strands and the apparent conversion of one allele into another.
Creosote
Agriculture; General agriculture
An oily liquid mixture of phenols, creosols, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarons, obtained by the distillation of coal tar or wood tar, especially from beech wood.
Fish fry
Agriculture; General agriculture
Young immature fish at the postlarval stage of development, characterised by the beginning of exogenous feeding and the end of dependence on the yolk sac as the primary source of nutrition.
Indeterminate growth
Agriculture; General agriculture
Plant growth that continues at the apex, or tip, such as the continued flower development in indeterminate inflorescences.
Forest growth
Agriculture; General agriculture
Change in timber volume that occurs over an interval of time.
Feed conversion
Agriculture; General agriculture
Units of feed consumed per unit of weight increase or unit of production, e.g. milk, meat, eggs.
Softwood plywood
Agriculture; General agriculture
Structural material made of layers of softwood veneer glued together, under heat and pressure, with the grains of adjoining layers at right angles to each other.
