Biology

Feed Additives

Animal feed additives are a broad term used in a variety of nutritional products produced for livestock. Livestock farmers use a combination of nutrients to safely provide complete improvements to the health and functioning of their animals. Medicines or supplements that prevent or treat disease are regarded as drugs. They are highly regulated in animal […]

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Biology, UPSC

Feed Additives

Animal feed additives are a broad term used in a variety of nutritional products produced for livestock. Livestock farmers use a combination of nutrients to safely provide complete improvements to the health and functioning of their animals. Medicines or supplements that prevent or treat disease are regarded as drugs. They are highly regulated in animal

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Fabaceae

In addition to trees, shrubs, and herbs, Fabaceae includes  Leguminosae, the bean or pea family. Most members of this group have flower and fruit-producing characteristics. Around 700 species are known to exist in the group. The Fabaceae is the most dominant plant in America and Africa’s dry forests. Studies have confirmed that this group is

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Euphorbiaceae

There are alternate leaves, rarely opposite ones, and stipules. They are primarily simple, but if compound, they are always palmate instead of pinnate. There are sometimes no stipules, or the stipules are reduced to hairs, glands, or spines. Monoecious or dioecious plants are possible. Unisexual flowers that are radially symmetrical are usually found on the

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Erect Posture Implications

Human beings evolved from non-human primates. The continuous and ongoing advancement from the terrestrial quadrupedalism i.e. pronograde to semi-erect posture i.e. clinograde, and lastly to a completely erect posture i.e. orthograde with bipedal locomotion is the method of the advancement of locomotion from simians to the man which has been taken. The man stands with

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Environmental Physiology

The term ‘Environmental physiology’ synonym ecological physiology is a part of biology which studies adaptations, changes, and effects on the physiological function of an organism due to its environment. We can say it causes minor variations in the physiological activities of a species of organisms because of its habitat. It is related to the process

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Energy Protein Interrelationships

Protein-energy interactions are essential for controlling nutritional digestibility and intake and the efficiency with which absorbed nutrients are utilised for synthesis. A change in protein intake can affect performance by altering the total dietary pattern. This is due, in large part, to variations in digestibility and the accompanying consumption of nutritional elements. Energy protein interrelationships

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Energy Plantations

By the term “energy plantation” itself, we can get the idea that it is related to energy production. Energy resources play a vital role in the development of a nation, and in today’s world, the requirement for energy is more than its availability. Conventional energy resources are unable to meet the rapidly growing demand for

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Endangered Species of Plants

Introduction Endangered plants are any living species of plants vulnerable to extinction shortly, either globally or in specific geographic locations. Out of the 1.9 million living species of flora and fauna, about 0.7 million are plants. According to The Guardian newspaper, around 40% of existing plants await extinction. The loss of endangered plant species annually

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