Apes Chapter 10 Vocab

Genes from one species used to enhance another

•the guarantee of adequate and reliable food supply to all people at all times •Fewer people today are hungry than in 1970

•people receive less than 90% of their daily caloric needs

Receiving too much calories

•a shortage of nutrients the body needs -The diet lacks adequate vitamins and minerals

•diets lacking protein or essential amino acids -Occurs when children stop breast-feeding -Bloated stomach, mental and physical disabilities

•protein deficiency and insufficient calories -Wasting or shriveling of the body

•a large expanse of a single crop -More efficient, increases output -Devastates biodiversity -Susceptible to disease and pests •Narrows human diet: 90% of our food comes from 15 crop species and 8 livestock species

Any organism that damages valuable crops

Any plant that competes with crops

Poisons that kill pest organismsinsecticides, herbicides, fungicides

-chemists increase chemical toxicity to compete with resistant pests

•uses a pest’s natural predators to control the pest -Reduces pest populations without chemicals

-soil bacteria that kills many pests

-Biocontrol -Chemicals, when necessary -Population monitoring -Habitat alteration -Crop rotation and transgenic crops -Alternative tillage methods -Mechanical pest removal