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1 day ago · Colocasia esculenta is a perennial, tropical plant primarily grown as a root vegetable for its edible, starchy corm. The plant has rhizomes of different shapes and sizes. Leaves are up to 40 by 25 centimetres (15 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 10 inches) and sprout from the rhizome. They are dark green above and light green beneath.
1 day ago · The word pesticide derives from the Latin pestis (plague) and caedere (kill).. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has defined pesticide as: . any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals, causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the ...
1 day ago · Annabeth Chase is the child of Athena and West Point history professor Frederick Chase. She has an extensive paternal family including Magnus Chase. She appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Lost Hero, The Demigod Diaries, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades and The Blood of Olympus.
1 day ago · The orange colour of carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, oranges, and many other fruits and vegetables comes from carotenes, a type of photosynthetic pigment. These pigments convert the light energy that the plants absorb from the sun into chemical energy for the plants' growth. The carotenes themselves take their name from the carrot.
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1 day ago · A selection of uncooked red meat, pork and poultry, including beef, chicken, bacon and pork chops Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals, including chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle, starting around 11,000 years ago. Since then ...
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