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| Terms for subject Environment (6533 entries) |
| bacterie | bacterium (Group of single-cell micro-organisms, the smallest of the living organisms. Some are vital to sustain life, while others are responsible for causing highly dangerous human diseases, such as anthrax, tetanus and tuberculosis. Bacteria are found everywhere, in the soil, water and air) | |
| bacterie coliformă | coliform bacterium (A group of bacteria that are normally abundant in the intestinal tracts of human and other warm-blooded animals and are used as indicators (being measured as the number of individuals found per millilitre of water) when testing the sanitary quality of water) | |
| bacterie fecală | faecal bacterium (Bacteria contained in human and animal faeces) | |
| bacteriologie | bacteriology (The science and study of bacteria) | |
| baie publică | public bath (A place having baths for public use) | |
| balanţă | balance (An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account, or the excess on either side; economic) | |
| balastieră | gravel pit (A place where gravel is dug out of the ground) | |
| bălegar | manure (Animal excreta collected from stables and barnyards with or without litter; used to enrich the soil) | |
| bălegar animal | animal manure (Animal excreta collected from stables and barnyards with or without litter; used to enrich the soil) | |
| bălegar lichid | liquid manure (Any fertilizer substance with a moisture content of over ninety percent, usually consisting of animal excrement with water added) | |
| bălegar semilichid | semi-liquid manure (No definition needed) | |
| balenă | whale (Large marine mammals of the order Cetacea; the body is streamlined, the broad flat tail is used for propulsion, and the limbs are balancing structures) | |
| baliză | marker (1. Small amount of an easily detected substance that can be used to follow and quantify the flow of materials or movement of organisms not otherwise visible or detectable by ordinary means. 2. An isotope of an element, a small amount of which may be incorporated into a sample of material in order to follow the course of that element through a chemical, biological, or physical process, and thus also follow the larger sample. The tracer may be radioactive, in which case observations are made by measuring the radioactivity) | |
| baltă | moor (A tract of unenclosed waste ground, usually covered with heather, coarse grass, bracken, and moss) | |
| baltă | bog (A commonly used term in Scotland and Ireland for a stretch waterlogged, spongy ground, chiefly composed of decaying vegetable matter, especially of rushes, cotton grass, and sphagnum moss) | |
| baltă | pool (A small, natural body of standing water, usually fresh; e.g. a stagnant body of water in a marsh, or a still body of water within a cave) | |
| bancă de date bibliografice | literature data bank (A fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, divided into discrete documents and usually stored in and used with a computer system) | |
| bancă de specimene din mediu | environmental specimen bank (Places in which selected specimens (fish, mussels, milk, soil sample and human tissue, etc.) are stored without being allowed to decompose) | |
| bancă genetică | gene bank (Storehouses of seeds or vegetative tissue, kept in low humidity and temperature, to help maintain genetic diversity. Sometimes known as seed banks or germ plasm banks. their contents mostly originate from a wide range of primitive strains and wild crop varieties. The International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), which was established in 1974, promotes the collection, documentation, evaluation, conservation and eventual use of genetic resources of significant plant species. Gene banks are the subject of international controversy because they contain seeds that have mostly been acquired from the developing countries by the industrially rich countries, where they have been used in breeding programmes to develop new strains. Instead of taking decades over a traditional plant breeding programme by fertilization, it is now possible to manipulate directly the genes of plants, creating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are plants modified to give a higher resistance to disease and improved growth and yields and, therefore, increase the profit of the plant breeder and farmer) | |
| banchiză | ice pack (Large areas of floating ice, usually occurring in polar seas, consisting of separate pieces that have become massed together) |