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wheat

(Science: botany) A cereal grass (triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist as a wild native plant, and all statements as to its origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses. Buck wheat.

(Science: botany) The grain weevil. The rice weevil when found in wheat.

Origin: OE. Whete, AS. Hwte; akin to OS. Hwti, D. Weit, G. Weizen, OHG. Weizzi, Icel. Hveiti, Sw. Hvete, Dan. Hvede, Goth. Hwaiteis, and E. While. See White.


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monosaccharides in food

... down into monosaccharides, then what are the names of those individual monosaccharides it contains? And how about other foods like pasta, barley, wheat?

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I would like to ask you about genetic question.

In some types of wheat, color is caused by two sets of alleles. To produce a red color, both dominant alleles, R and B, are needed. White results from having both recessive alleles in the homozygous state, rrbb. A strain with a genotype ...

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