Word: selectiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nature's diversity offers many opportunities for agriculture, especially now that genetic mapping and engineering have given biotechnology firms the potential power to improve crops by transferring genes from wild strains. According to Wilson, biotechnology can transform a plant into a "loose-leaf notebook" from which scientists can select a particular page. Among the possible results: drought- and frost-resistant crops, and natural fertilizers and pesticides...
Five members of the Harvard rugby football club have been selected to the All-Eastern select-side...
...road to the All-Eastern side began last month when the five players were among 80 to be selected to the New England select-side...
...June, the select-side will play in the Inter-Territorial Tournament in Denver, Colorado. The four regions--East, Pacific, Modest and West--will compete, with the Eastern region meeting the Pacific region...
...investigators will choose their ownresearch projects, may collaborate with others,accept grants from other sources, write their ownscientific articles, select the journals forpublication and meetings for presentation anddecide when to submit articles for publication,"Bander said...