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1. Drying agent.
2. In agriculture, a substance used for drying up plants and facilitating their mechanical harvesting.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Formation (or generation) of chromosomal breaks and (or) consequent gain, loss or rearrangement of pieces of chromosomes.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Investigation yielding the no-observed-adverse-effect-level that is used by the USEPA as the basis of the reference dose.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Investigation yielding the no-observed-adverse-effect-level that is used by the USEPA as the basis of the reference dose.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Term applied to health effects, the severity of which varies with the dose and for which a threshold is believed to exist.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process leading to a higher concentration of a substance in an organism than in environmental media to which it is exposed.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Process by which a normally non-biodegradable substance is biodegraded only in the presence of an additional carbon source.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Dose of a substance at and above which adverse functional changes, reversible or irreversible, occur in a cell or an organ.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Common name for a harmful plant parasite in the family Aphididae, some species of which are vectors of plant virus diseases.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Substance with activity against pests, that is produced naturally within a plant and may act as a defense against predators.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
