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United States Department of Agriculture
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The term `biomass' means any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis (excluding old-growth timber), including dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crop residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, aquatic plants, grasses, residues, fibers, and animal wastes, municipal wastes, and other waste materials.
Industry:Agriculture
The use of statistical methods to analyze biological observations and phenomena.
Industry:Agriculture
A species that is sensitive to changes in its environment (such as an increase in pollutants), and readily shows symptoms of that change.
Industry:Agriculture
A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories applicable to molecular biology and areas of computer-based techniques for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.
Industry:Agriculture
A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories applicable to molecular biology and areas of computer-based techniques for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.
Industry:Agriculture
The term `biomass' means any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis (excluding old-growth timber), including dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crop residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, aquatic plants, grasses, residues, fibers, and animal wastes, municipal wastes, and other waste materials.
Industry:Agriculture
The study of the ethical and moral implications of new discoveries and practices in the biological sciences, biomedicine, and health care. Some areas that have given rise to questions about bioethics include gene therapy, abortion, in vitro fertilization, animal welfare, genetic screening, and euthanasia.
Industry:Agriculture
Drugs, vaccines, growth hormones or other biologics produced by organisms that have been genetically altered to yield these products.
Industry:Agriculture
Drugs, vaccines, growth hormones or other biologics produced by organisms that have been genetically altered to yield these products.
Industry:Agriculture
A technology using microorganisms on a substrate to biologically degrade emissions or effluents (such as sewage, wastewaters, volatile organic compounds).
Industry:Agriculture