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Is any plant with a short, seasonal lifestyle and some form of underground storage organ ( bulb, tuber, thick rhizome, etc.).

Germination ccurs when a spore or seed starts to grow. It is a term used in botany. When a spore or seed germinates, it produces a shoot or seedling, or (in the case of fungi) a hypha. Seeds can survive much longer than spores, sometimes for hundreds of years.

The development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy

Is living tissue from which new plants can be grown. It can be a seed or another plant part ? a leaf, a piece of stem, pollen or even just a few cells that can be turned into a whole plant. Germplasm contains the information for a species' genetic makeup, a valuable natural resource of plant diversity.

The breakdown of glucose by enzymes, releasing energy and pyruvic acid

Proetins that have sugar attached to them. They do many important jobs in the body, such as helping the immine, digestive, and reproductive systems.

Causes the pituitary gland in the brain to make and secrete the

Is in-based feeds that are usually made from a base of soy or corn.

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A substance that is toxic to plants, and is used to destroy unwanted vegetation.

Is the process of passing the traits and characteristics from parents to offsprings through genes. The offspring, get their features and characteristics that is genetic information from their mother and father.

Is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population.

Is most simply an offspring's

The quality or state of consisting of dissimilar or diverse elements : the quality or state of being