Agriscience AEST Study Guide #3

Cultivation, propagation, and processing of flowers, turf, vegetables, fruits, and ornamental plants

• Horticulture

• Agriscience

• Agriculture

• Biotechnology

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On average, each farmer produces enough food for approximately

• 20 people

• 167 people

• 2,000 people

• 1 billion people

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Spurred inventions that revolutionized agriculture in the United States

• Gold

• Silver

• Iron

• Ruby

 

2% of the population

• Work as vets

• Work as teachers

• Work as scientists

• Work as farmers

Management of wetlands, rangelands, water, fish, and wildlife management scientific knowledge of plants and animals

• Renewable Natural Resources

• Agriculture Supplies and Services

• Agriculture Mechanics

• Agriscience Professional

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Design, operation, maintenance, service, selling, and use of power unit, machinery, equipment, structures, and utilities

• Renewable Natural Resources

• Horticulture

• Agriscience Professional

• Agriculture Mechanics

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Knowledge and understanding of agriscience

• Agriscience Professional

• Renewable Natural Resources

• Agriculture Mechanics

• Forestry

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Who was the father of Genetics?

• RC Punnett

• Jake Spoon

• Henry Grossclose

• Gregor Mendel

What is a phenotype?

• The expression of a trait; what you see.

• refers to the genetic makeup of an individual

• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (ex. TT or tt)

• the passing of traits from parent to offspring

What does heterozygous mean?

• An organism that has the same genes for a trait (TT or tt)

• An organism that has different genes for a trait (Tt)

• When neither gene is fully dominant; offspring is a mixture of both

• the different forms of a trait (hair color--> brown, blonde, red

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