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Omnivore's Dillema Flashcards

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Carpobhobia

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fear/ avoidance at carbohydrates

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Lipophobia

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fear of becoming fat/fear of eating fat

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Apotheosis

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the highest point in the development of something, climax/elevation of someone to divine status

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omnivore

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an animal or person that eats food of both plants and animals or ancestral

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atavistic

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relating to or person that eats food of both plants and animals origin

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blandishment

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a flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something

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Edibility

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fit to be eaten as food

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Provenance

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The place at origin or earliest known history of something

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Heterosis

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The tendency at a cross bred individual to show qualities superior

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Hybrid

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The offspring of 2 plants or animals at diff. species to those at both parents

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Patent

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easily recognized, obvious

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yield

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produce or provide

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Commodities

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a row material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and generally considered or reputed to be

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Surfeit

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excessive amount of something

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Portean

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tending or able to change frequency or easily; able to do many diff. things

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Gustatory

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Concerned with tasting or the sense of taste

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Roughage

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fibrous indigestible material in vegetable food that aids the passage of food and waste products through gut

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Rumen/Ruminant/ Rumination

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First stomach of a ruminant, receives food or from the esophagus partly digest it with the aid of bacteria, and passes it to the rectum.

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Acidosis

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an aggressive acid condition of the body fluid or tissues

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Rudiments

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the first principle of a subject

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Vicissitudes

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a change of circumstance, typically are that is unwelcome or unpleasant.

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Gluttony

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habitual greed or excessive eating

23
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High Fructose Corn Syrup

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sweetener made from corn starch that has been processed by glucose.

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sucrose

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chief component of cane sugar

25
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risible

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such as to produce laughter

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agrarian

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relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land

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phage

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any group of viruses that infect specific bacteria causes disintegration

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nematode

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unsegmented worm of the phylum Nematoda elongated cylindrical body roundworm

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rotifers

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microscopic animals of the phylum rule for in fresh and saltwater’s one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end

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mycelium

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mass of hyphae forms vegetative part of a fungus

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rhizome

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rootlike subterranean stem commonly horizontal position that usually produces roots below and send up shoots progressively from the upper surface

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humus

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The dark organic matter in soil

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polyphenols

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White crystalline water-soluble poisonous mass disinfection antiseptic

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Metabolite

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A product of metabolic action

35
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flavanol

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A colorless crystalline water insoluble compound

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conflate

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diffuse into one entity merge

37
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sigmoid

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shaped like a C or S

38
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Paddock

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small usually includes field near a stable or barn for pastoring or exercising animals

39
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emiserated

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to cause to become impoverished or miserable

40
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abattoir

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A slaughterhouse

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Jeremiad

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A pro long to lamentation or mournful complaint

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perprandial

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before a meal especially before dinner

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forager

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seeking or obtaining at such food

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modernity

A

Quality of being modern

45
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philia

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denoting fondness especially end of normal love for a specified thing

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phobia

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irrational fear of specific object or situation that leads to a compulsive desire to avoid it

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anthropocentric

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regarding the human being is essential fact of the universe

48
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hubris

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excessive price or self-confidence arrogance

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Myco-

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combining from meaning mushroom fungus

50
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autochthonous

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indigenous rather than descended from migraines or colonies

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