General agriculture

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Cholecystokinin

Agriculture; General agriculture

A 33-amino acid peptide secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa and also found in the central nervous system. It causes gallbladder contraction, release of pancreatic exocrine (or digestive) enzymes, ...

Code of practise

Agriculture; General agriculture

The rules and documented procedures established by regulatory bodies or trade associations which serve as a guide to acceptable practices. They do not have the force of law.

Inbreeding coefficient

Agriculture; General agriculture

When parents are genetically related, the probability of homozygosity occurring because the individual has inherited the same ancestral gene from both its parents.

Postoperative complications

Agriculture; General agriculture

Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the ...

Scavenging behaviour

Agriculture; General agriculture

Searching for and feeding on dead carcasses or decaying organic matter.

Imprinting behaviour

Agriculture; General agriculture

Rapid learning or behavioural patterning that occurs at critical points in very early stages of animal development, by which young individuals of a species acquire irreversible behaviour patterns of ...