Agriculture Vocabulary

The science and art of cultivating plants, animals, or other organisms.

• Agriculture

• Harvesting

• Animal Husbandry

• Selective Breeding

In farming, the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics.

• Harvesting

• Agriculture

• Selective Breeding

• Irrigation

To pollinate (a plant) with pollen from a different plant of the same species, often one that is unrelated or is of a different variety.

• Selective Breeding

• Animal Husbandry

• GMO

• Outcrossing

GMO

• Genetically Modified Organizations

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Genetically Mortified Organisms

• Generically Modified Organisms

The science of caring for and breeding farm animals.

• Agriculture

• Animal Husbandry

• Selective Breeding

• GMO

The process of gathering a ripe crop from an agricultural field.

• Irrigation

• Selective Breeding

• Harvesting

• Agriculture

The application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

• Irrigation

• Outcrossing

• Harvesting

• Irritation

The young plant that germinates from a plant embryo contained within a seed.

• GMO

• Outcrossing

• Selective Breeding

• Seedling