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• Organic
  Agriculture and Food
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  Organic food

  Organic food is produced according to legally regulated standards. For crops, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers or sewage sludge, and that ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Agriculture and Food
  Sports Medicine
  Endangered Plants
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  Herbicide

  A herbicide is a pesticide used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill certain targets while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Agriculture and Food
  Invasive Species
  Mating and Breeding
  Animals
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  Beekeeping

  Beekeeping is the practice of intentional maintenance of honeybee hives by humans. A beekeeper may keep bees in order to collect honey and beeswax, or for the purpose of pollinating crops, or to ... > more
• Soil Types
  Agriculture and Food
  Rainforests
  Forest
  Sustainability
  Endangered Plants
   

  Shifting cultivation

  Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. This system often involves clearing of a piece of ... > more
• Food
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Pests and Parasites
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  Banana

  A banana plant is a herb in the genus, Musa, which because of its size and structure, is often mistaken for a tree. It is cultivated for its fruit, which also bears the same ... > more
• Agriculture and Food
  Food
  Healthy Aging
  Cholesterol
  Sports Medicine
  Nutrition
   
  

  Oat

  The Oat is a species of cereal grain, and the seeds of this plant. They are used for food for people and as fodder for animals, especially poultry and ... > more
• Wildfires
  Oil Spills
  Rainforests
  Trees
  Ecology Research
  Ecology
   
  

  Controlled burn

  Prescribed or controlled burning is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, or prairie restoration. Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire ... > more
• Agriculture and Food
  Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Life Sciences
  Seeds
   
  

  Cotton

  Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and the Americas. The fiber is most often ... > more
• Agriculture and Food
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Endangered Plants
  Nutrition
   
  

  Maize

  Maize,also known as corn, is a cereal grain that was domesticated in Mesoamerica. The domestication of maize is of particular interest to researchers - especially archaeologists, geneticists, ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Agriculture and Food
  Sports Medicine
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Birds
  Nutrition
   
  

  Domesticated turkey

  The domesticated turkey is a large poultry bird raised for food. The modern domesticated turkey descends from the wild turkey (meleagris gallopavo), one of the two species of turkey (genus ... > more

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