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5 days ago · John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS ( / ˈhɔːldeɪn /; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964 [1] [2] ), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", [3] was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism.
4 days ago · The International Potato Center was founded in Lima, Peru, in 1971 as an R&D organization with a focus on potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other Andean roots and tubers. [2] The geographical region known as Micronesia lies in the western part of the Pacific, about 5,945 kilometers (3,223 miles) from the islands of Hawai’i.
5 days ago · GMO foods pose greater risk to agriculture than human health, experts say. Following a review of almost 900 studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported today ...
5 days ago · Consuming organic and natural foods grown without pesticides during planting, pest management, or storage has long been associated with healthy eating. Many nutritionists believe that eating GMO foods hurts a person’s health and that they can increase the size of other body organs and cause cancer. Additionally, the production and consumption ...
4 days ago · GMO (short for “genetically modified organism”) is a plant, animal or microbe in which one or more changes have been made to the genome, typically using high-tech genetic engineering, in an attempt to alter the characteristics of an organism. Genes can be introduced, enhanced or deleted within a species, across species or even across ...
4 days ago · Genetics forms one of the central pillars of biology and overlaps with many other areas, such as agriculture, medicine, and biotechnology. Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has recognized the influence of heredity and applied its principles to the improvement of cultivated crops and domestic animals. A Babylonian tablet more than 6,000 ...
2 days ago · The produce department of a new Whole Foods Market located in the Southern Hills area of Tulsa, Oklahoma. A Bread & Circus and Whole Foods bakery in Medford, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1984, Whole Foods Market expanded from Austin, first to Houston and Dallas and then to New Orleans with the purchase of The Whole Food Co. in 1988.
