APPLIED BIOLOGY Flashcards

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raising crops and livestock (cow, buffalo etc)

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Agriculture

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treatment and surgery of animals.

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Veterinary Science

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study of life in the sea

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Marine Biology

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study of household animals, insects etc, including how to prevent damage to our own body
and to our belongings

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Household Biology

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science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers or ornamental plants

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Horticulture

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technique of producing silk by raising silkworms

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Sericulture

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the technique of growing fish

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Pisciculture

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interpreting biological events in terms of molecules in the cell.

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Molecular Biology

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the application of biological processes in technology (biogas production, food processing, vaccine etc.)

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Biotechnology

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it is a rapidly advancing branch of biotechnology. Several animals have been cloned in which a body cell is
used with no involvement of the male sperms

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Cloning

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which includes techniques like the making of artificial limbs, joints and other parts of the
body from metals or plastic etc. It also includes modifying crops easier to grow and improving their food quality.

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Bioengineering

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the study of the effects of radioactivity on living things which is also called Radiation Biology

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Nuclear Biology

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the study of survival problems of living things in outer space

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Space Biology

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it is one the newest sciences, which contemplates to study life elsewhere in the universe

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Exobiology

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the study of genomes as opposed to individual genes. Genome is the entire DNA sequence of an
organism

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Genomics

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management and analysis of biological information stored in databases

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Bioinformatics

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the verification of a person by his certain body features such as the patter of iris in the eye and
behavioral characteristics

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Biometrics