Vocabulary

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

unmistakable; unquestionable; certain; evident

undoubtedly; unmistakably; indisputably; definitely; certainly

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

to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage

facultative bacteria; facultative anaerobic bacteria; facultative anaerobe

how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

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

Green Revolution; Third Agricultural Revolution

agricultural revolution; agrarian revolution

high-yield variety (crop, etc.)

dwarfism

short-stalked (of grains); dwarf

food crisis; food-supply crisis

consumer spending; consumption expenditure

homozygous

heterozygous

torus; anchor ring

homeomorphism; topological equivalence

homotopy

continuous transformation; continuous mapping

uniform continuity

Lipschitz continuity

l'Hospital's rule; l'Hôpital's rule

Out-of-Africa theory (positing a recent African origin for modern humans)

radiometric dating

background radiation

radioactive decay

nuclear fission; fission reaction

spontaneous fission

double electron capture