PHORESY

Etymology

Noun

phoresy (plural phoresies)

(zoology) An association between two organisms in which one (e.g. a mite) travels on the body of another, without being a parasite.

Source: Wiktionary



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28 April 2024

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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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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