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Plant breeding: is the technique of altering the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. New crop varieties or lines with interesting properties are then created. It has been used to improve the quality of nutrition in products for humans and animals.
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FEB 23, 2017Plants & Animals
Over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2016, hundreds of endangered salamanders reportedly went missing from the San Marcos Aq ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 19, 2017Plants & Animals
Researchers have recently stumbled across a particular species of elusive frog in the wild for the first time in well ov ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 08, 2017Plants & Animals
A pretty exciting event just too place at Cincinnati Zoo last Friday that tons of animal lovers are going to be excited ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 07, 2017Videos
Mostly when we think of farms we generate an image of big fields of tilled earth. These farms all require soil, and can ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 27, 2017Videos
Have you ever wondered why there are so many types of apples? Aside from the standard Red Delicious and Granny Smith, th ...Written By: Jennifer EllisJAN 27, 2017Plants & Animals
A 22-year-old African spurred tortoise that goes by the name of Bert has been outfitted with a new set of wheels to help ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 25, 2017Genetics & Genomics
Grain sorghum is a grass plant crop grown for food grain, animal feed, the production of alcoholic beverages, and biofue ...Written By: Jennifer EllisJAN 22, 2017Plants & Animals
New animal species are popping up in the wilderness all the time, many of which have probably been there for a really lo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 12, 2017Infographics
Much like the creatures form the land of Pandora in James Cameron’s Avatar, glowing (or bioluminescent) animals ha ...DEC 23, 2016Earth & The Environment
The governor of a province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo approved the boundaries of a 1,477-square-kilomet ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 15, 2016Plants & Animals
Earlier in the month, a Russian cargo ship failed after what appeared to be a successful launch out of the Earth’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 06, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
The wonderfully adorable egg-laying mammal known as the platypus may hold the key to new treatments for type 2 diabetes ...NOV 23, 2016Plants & Animals
Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the wo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 22, 2016Plants & Animals
A discrepancy between scientists and the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) may have red wolf populations, the most endange ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 12, 2016Health & Medicine
The adaptive bacterial immune system known as CRISPR has taken biomedicine by storm in the years following its discovery ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 26, 2016Plants & Animals
The giant tortoise is an icon for conservation on the Galapagos Islands. They can get really big, but their population n ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 24, 2016Microbiology
For as long as civilization has existed, the enjoyment of fermented drinks has been a part of various cultures and tradi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 26, 2016Earth & The Environment
Gray wolves were hunted into near extinction by the early 1930s in Washington state and in 1978 the U.S. Fish and Wildli ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 21, 2016Plants & Animals
There are some species that walk the Earth that are so rare, it’s almost a miracle when they’re born. Among ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 14, 2016Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the Bornean Orangutan species has been ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2016Plants & Animals
Those cute little penguins that are known for the black line that crosses under their “chin” may be in peril ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 12, 2016Plants & Animals
Sumatran tigers are a very rare species of tiger, currently considered to be critically endangered, and the World Wildli ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 20, 2016Plants & Animals
The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland announced last week that they will move their eight Atlantic Bottlenose dol ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 23, 2017
Plants & Animals
Over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2016, hundreds of endangered salamanders reportedly went missing from the San Marcos Aq
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
Researchers have recently stumbled across a particular species of elusive frog in the wild for the first time in well ov
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
A pretty exciting event just too place at Cincinnati Zoo last Friday that tons of animal lovers are going to be excited
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 07, 2017
Videos
Mostly when we think of farms we generate an image of big fields of tilled earth. These farms all require soil, and can
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 27, 2017
Videos
Have you ever wondered why there are so many types of apples? Aside from the standard Red Delicious and Granny Smith, th
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
JAN 27, 2017
Plants & Animals
A 22-year-old African spurred tortoise that goes by the name of Bert has been outfitted with a new set of wheels to help
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 25, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Grain sorghum is a grass plant crop grown for food grain, animal feed, the production of alcoholic beverages, and biofue
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
JAN 22, 2017
Plants & Animals
New animal species are popping up in the wilderness all the time, many of which have probably been there for a really lo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 12, 2017
Infographics
Much like the creatures form the land of Pandora in James Cameron’s Avatar, glowing (or bioluminescent) animals ha
...
DEC 23, 2016
Earth & The Environment
The governor of a province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo approved the boundaries of a 1,477-square-kilomet
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 15, 2016
Plants & Animals
Earlier in the month, a Russian cargo ship failed after what appeared to be a successful launch out of the Earth’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
The wonderfully adorable egg-laying mammal known as the platypus may hold the key to new treatments for type 2 diabetes
...
NOV 23, 2016
Plants & Animals
Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the wo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 22, 2016
Plants & Animals
A discrepancy between scientists and the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) may have red wolf populations, the most endange
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 12, 2016
Health & Medicine
The adaptive bacterial immune system known as CRISPR has taken biomedicine by storm in the years following its discovery
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 26, 2016
Plants & Animals
The giant tortoise is an icon for conservation on the Galapagos Islands. They can get really big, but their population n
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 24, 2016
Microbiology
For as long as civilization has existed, the enjoyment of fermented drinks has been a part of various cultures and tradi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Gray wolves were hunted into near extinction by the early 1930s in Washington state and in 1978 the U.S. Fish and Wildli
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 21, 2016
Plants & Animals
There are some species that walk the Earth that are so rare, it’s almost a miracle when they’re born. Among
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 14, 2016
Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the Bornean Orangutan species has been
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
Those cute little penguins that are known for the black line that crosses under their “chin” may be in peril
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
Sumatran tigers are a very rare species of tiger, currently considered to be critically endangered, and the World Wildli
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 20, 2016
Plants & Animals
The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland announced last week that they will move their eight Atlantic Bottlenose dol
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan