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Our environment provides us with a variety of goods and services necessary for our day to day lives. These natural resources include, air, water, soil, minerals, along with the climate and solar energy, which form the non-living or ‘abiotic’ part of nature. The ‘biotic’ or living parts of nature consists of plants and animals, including …
“Biotechnology” emerged as a result of integration of biological science wit technology. It is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and services. Processes such as baking, brewing and cheese making have been in use for many years and were developed long before man …
Traditional cheese making depended on the natural micro-organisms present in the dairy and milk. Microbes sour that milk, producing lactic acid and lowering the pH, so that when rennet (from the stomach of young mammals) was added, the milk curdled and separated into solid curds and liquid why (which was used as a substitute for …
A weed in a general sense a plant that is considered as unwanted plants in farm fields, gardens, parks etc., and generally the term is often used to describe the plants that grow & reproduce aggressively. They are one of the major problems in crop management as they compete with crops for water and nutrients …
