BIO-27
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- spices
- used to add taste to food
- vegetables
- foods derived from the leaves, stems, seeds, and roots of nonwoody plants
- botany
- study of plants
- pesticides
- chemicals that kill undesirable organisms that hamr crops, such as some insects
- hay fever
- allergic reaction that results in sneezing, a runn nose, and watering eyes
- root crops
- roots or underground stems that are rich in carbohydrates
- cereals
- grasses that contain grains
- herbs
- used to add taste to food
- cultivars
- selected by people, adn they have at least one distinguishing characteristic that sets them apart from other members of their species
- gasohol
- made of about 10 percent alcohol- alternative fuel for automobiles
- weeds
- undesirable plants that often crowd out crop plants or native plant species
- fruit
- part of the flowering plant that usually contains seeds
- quinine
- comes from the bark of the cinchona tree and is used to treat malaria
- agriculture
- growing plants and raising animals for human use
- aspirin
- world's most widely used medicine
- fertilizers
- supply plants with essential material nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus
- plant ecology
- study of interactions between plants and the environment
- nut
- dry, hard fruit that does not split open to release its seed
- legumes
- members of the pea family and bear seeds in pods