Saturday, September 1, 2012

Long-Day Plant: Lettuce, a plant that flowers only after being exposed to light periods longer than a certain critical length, as in summer.

Hydrophobic: Olive Oil, fails to mix with water.

Fermentation:  The process of converting sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol with yeast. To make wine, grapes are crushed and fermented.

Ethylene: Ethylene gas is the ripening agent that occurs naturally in nature. It causes fruits to ripen & decay.  Ethylene gas turns Bananas yellow and then brown.

CAM Plant:
Pineapple, a plant that undergoes a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night.

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