Botany 3.3
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- Tetraploid
- 28/ durum/ AABB/ pasta wheat
- Diploid
- 14/high gluten content/ AA/ cold climate/ wild relative
- Hexaploid
- bread wheat/ 42/ AABBDD
- Hard bread has a __ gluten content while soft bread has a __ content.
- high; low
- 90% of the worlds wheat is grown for...
- bread
- gluten
- complex of proteins consisting largely of gliaden and glutenin
- Fermentation
- Occurs when you add yeast to a flour and water combination and allow it to sit.
- Leavened Bread
- Has risen due to fermentation which created carbon dioxide bubbles.
- What happened in the 1800\'s? Effects?
- -Better mills were made which created a finner flour. -It removed the bran which improved the shelf life but diminished the healthiness.
- \"Hybrid Vigor\"
- \"heterosis\"-increased size or fitness of a heterozygous hybrid that is better than the homozygous parents.
- Dent corn is the basis fr many things:
- pharmaceuticals, animal consumption, fuel, food and alcohol.
- Rice
- -feeds more people than any other crop -only major crops grown exclusively fr human consumption.