Vocabulary

refrigerator; refrigerating equipment; freezer

virtual world

terraforming

axial tilt; obliquity

substitution cipher

transposition cipher

scytale (tool for performing a transposition cipher)

biological diversity; biodiversity

all-purpose knife (e.g. Swiss Army knife); utility knife

inbred line; inbred strain

inferiority; weakness

interspecific hybrid

juvenile hormone

blastogenesis

metabolite

last and first days of the month

recurrent nerve paralysis

forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain

making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building

safety myth; myth that something is completely safe (e.g. nuclear plant); safety dogma

facultative bacteria; facultative anaerobic bacteria; facultative anaerobe

making paper umbrellas; overlaying an umbrella framework

backcrossing (crossing a hybrid with one of its parents)

linebreeding; continuous back crossing

backcrossing

major multinational grain companies

natural condition

disease resistance; disease tolerance

durability

genitive case; adnominal case

nominal verb; verbal noun

agricultural revolution; agrarian revolution

high-yield variety (crop, etc.)

dwarfism

food crisis; food-supply crisis

consumer spending; consumption expenditure

torus; anchor ring

homeomorphism; topological equivalence

homotopy

continuous transformation; continuous mapping