Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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Biotechnology

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Techniques that use living organisms or parts of organisms to produce a variety of products (from medicines to industrial enzymes) to improve plants or animals or to develop microorganisms to remove ...

Biotic community

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A naturally occurring assemblage of plants and animals that live in the same environment and are mutually sustaining and interdependent. (See: biome.)

Biotransformation

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Conversion of a substance into other compounds by organisms; includes biodegredation.

Blood products

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Any product derived from human blood, including but not limited to blood plasma, platelets, red or white corpuscles, and derived licenced products such as interferon.

Bod5

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The amount of dissolved oxygen consumed in five days by biological processes breaking down organic matter.

Body burden

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The amount of a chemical stored in the body at a given time, especially a potential toxin in the body as the result of exposure.

Bog

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A type of wetland that accumulates appreciable peat deposits. Bogs depend primarily on precipitation for their water source, and are usually acidic and rich in plant residue with a conspicuous mat of ...