Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
MEROZOITE
merozoite
(noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
merozoite (plural merozoites)
(biology) A protozoan cell, produced by a sporozoan by merogony, that may become either a meront or a gamont
Source: Wiktionary
Mer`o*zo"ite, n. [Gr. part + Sporozoa.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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