All 9 Uses
species
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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- Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings.†
Chpt 1.1species = a similar group of animals or plants
- No one can own the species called "corn."
Chpt 1.2 *
- CORN VS. EVERYONE When George Naylor's grandfather was farming, the typical Iowa farm was home to many different plant and animal species.†
Chpt 1.2
- How could a plant take over our food chain and push out almost every other species?†
Chpt 1.3
- Of all the species that have adapted to thrive in a world dominated by humans, surely no other has done better than Zea mays.†
Chpt 1.9
- I began looking at field guides to help me identify all the different unfamiliar species.†
Chpt 4.18
- And eventually it would mean the end of chickens, cattle, and many of the other domesticated species that at this point depend on us for their continued existence — depend, that is, on us eating them.†
Chpt 4.19
- Scientists think that morels are a mycorrhizal species that live on the roots of the pine trees.†
Chpt 4.21
- Some species of yeast taste better than others, however, and this is where geography and luck enter in.†
Chpt 4.22
Definitions:
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(1)
(species) a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)