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Runner
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a slender stem with very long internodes, as of the strawberry, that arches down to the ground and propagates by producing roots and shoots at the nodes or tip b. a plant that propagates in this way
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rhizome
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a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
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bulb
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a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily. |
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To Propagate
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biology to reproduce or cause to reproduce; breed
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soil crumb
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The bonding action of humus and clay
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humus
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the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth.
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manure
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excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
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lime
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Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime), obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
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Germination
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to begin to grow or develop.
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Testa
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the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
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cotyledon
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the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
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plumule
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the bud of the ascending axis of a plant while still in the embryo.
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radicle
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the lower part of the axis of an embryo; the primary root. b. a rudimentary root; radicel or rootlet. |
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sepal
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one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
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petal
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one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
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stamen
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the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
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anthers
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the pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
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pollen
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the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
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ovary
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Botany. the enlarged lower part of the pistil in angiospermous plants, enclosing the ovules or young seeds.
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ovules
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a rudimentary seed. b. the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed. |
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fungus`
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fungus is a type of mould that can also be a mushroom
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nitrogen
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nitrogen is a mineral that plants require to Flower .
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phosphorus
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phospourous helps with the root growth.
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potasium
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growth for vegetable flower and fruit growth.
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crop yield
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wilting
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when a plant wilts it is lacking a nutrient or water.
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nitrogen burn
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this is twere u have given the plant to much nitrogen and instead of helping it has harmed the plant.
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organic fertiliser
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manure
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inorganic fertiliser
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man made using the vitamins
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dominant
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this is the overruling gene.
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recessive
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the recessive gene is usually the hidden gene
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chromosomes
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humans have 48 chromosomes
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genes
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genes are inherited from parents.
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phenotype
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nature vs nurture
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genotypes
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1.The genetic makeup, as distinguished from the physical appearance, of an organism or a group of organisms.
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allele
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One member of a pair or series of genes that occupy a specific position on a specific chromosome. |
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cross pollination
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The transfer of pollen from an anther of the flower of one plant to a stigma of the flower of another plant. |
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self polination
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Transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma of the same flower.
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wind pollination
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wind can Cary pollen grains and it transfers it to different plants or flowers.
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animal pollination
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animas pick up the pollen and transfer it to a different plant.
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probes
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A substance, such as DNA, that is radioactively labeled or otherwise marked and used to detect or identify another substance in a sample. |
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capillary matting
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heated propogaters
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to keep something in a warm temperatrue o it reproduces easier
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mist propogaters
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a propogater that efects and changes the enviromwent for best reproductive output.
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