Cultural Practices of maize productionSupplying: Replanting of seeds to replace those seeds that did not germinate. Thinning: Removal of weak plants from a stand to give rise to one or two vigorous crop plants. Cultural practices of maize cultivation encompass a wide range of traditional knowledge, rituals, and techniques specific to different societies and regions. …
Definition of pollination Pollinatio is defined as the transfer of mature pollen grains from the Anther of one flower to the mature stigma of the same flower or another flower of the same plant or closely related species Pollination is the first step which leads to the eventual coming together of the male …
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Homogamy pollination process Definition of homogamy Homogamy refers to the ripening of the anthers and stigma of a bisexual flower at the same time This is actually a process in pollination where the flower anthers of a bisexual flower and the stigmas of a bisexual flower and ripe at the same time for pollination. …
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List the stages in mitosis Whereby each daughter cell or Nicholas has exactly the same chromosome content as the parent When we speak of mitosis we are simply talking about a type of cell division in terms of Passing genetic character and so on and so forth to the daughter cells but in this case …
What is meiosis? Meiosis can be defined as a two successive cell division with only one duplication of chromosomes. Four daughter cells are usually produced in meiosis. So in other words meiosis is a reduction in cell division and the resulting four daughter cells are haploid. So talking about meiosis we are talking …
What is the cell Theory? When talking about the cell Theory what does it really mean we all know that the cell is the smallest living unit of a living organism and exist independently. So naturally the cell Theory exist in the following form One of the main structural issues of the cell …
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The garden fork and its uses What is a garden fork? a garden fork is usually a simple Farm tool that has four prong or teeth which taper to a point. The prong of a garden fork is made of hard metal of about 20 cm long mounted on a long wooden …
Classification of soilSoil is classified into three major groups namelyZonal soilIntra zonal SoilAzona soil Zonal soil. This type of soil is mature soil and is responsible or recognisable through soil profile as a result of the influence of climatr and vegetation… the zonal soil is subdivided into two major group lemley pedalfers and pedocals …
Difference between sandy soil and clay soil Sandy soil is coarse grained in natureClay soil is fine grained Sandy soil is gritty while clay soil is smooth to touchSandy soil has no capillary action while capillary is very low in clay soil Sandy soil has high percolation rate while circulation rate is …
Uses of a cutlass as a simple Farm toolThe cutlass is the most commonly used simple Farm tools in Africa Most farmers that don\’t have money to buy mechanized Farm tools simple Farm tools like cutlass is the best they could lay their hands on. The use of cutlass in the farm is …
