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| Terms for subject Environment (6972 entries) |
| gaaskromatograafia | gas chromatography (A separation technique involving passage of a gaseous moving phase through a column containing a fixed phase; it is used principally as a quantitative analytical technique for volatile compounds) | |
| galvaanpindamine | galvanisation (The act of coating iron or steel with zinc, either by immersion in a bath of molten zinc or by deposition from a solution of zinc sulphate, to give protection against corrosion) | |
| gammakiirgus | gamma radiation (Radiation of gamma rays) | |
| gariig | garrigue (Mediterranean bush consisting of low evergreen shrubs and abundant herbaceous plants) | |
| gasohol | gasohol (A mixture of 80% or 90% petrol with 20% or 10% ethyl alcohol, for use as a fuel in internal combustion engines) | |
| geen | gene (A unit of heredity composed of DNA occupying a fixed position on a chromosome. A gene may determine a characteristic of an individual by specifying a polypeptide chain that forms a protein or part of a protein (structural gene); or repress such operation (repressor gene)) | |
| geenifond | genetic pool (The total number of genes or the amount of genetic information possessed by all the reproductive members of a population of sexually reproducing organisms) | |
| geenipank | 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) | |
| geenivarakaitse | conservation of genetic resources (Controlled utilization, protection and development of the gene pool of natural and cultivated organisms to ensure variety and variability and for current and potential value to human welfare) | |
| geneetika | genetics (The science that is concerned with the study of biological inheritance) | |
| geneetiline hälve | genetic modification (Inheritable changes produced by ionizing radiation, exposure to certain chemicals, ingestion of some medication and from other causes) | |
| geneetiline mitmekesisus | genetic diversity (The variation between individuals and between populations within a species) | |
| geneetiline muutus | genetic variation (Change in one or more phenotypic characteristics, due to gene mutation or rearrangement, environmental effects, etc.) | |
| geneetiline ressurss | genetic resource (The gene pool in natural and cultivated stocks of organisms that are available for human exploitation. It is desirable to maintain as diverse a range of organisms as possible, particularly of domesticated cultivars and their ancestors, in order to maintain a wide genetic base. The wider the genetic base, the greater the capacity for adaptation to particular environmental conditions) | |
| geneetiline toime | genetic effect (Inheritable change, chiefly mutations produced by chemical substances, herbicides, radiations, etc.) | |
| geneetiliselt modifitseeritud organism | genetically modified organism (An organism that has undergone external processes by which its basic set of genes has been altered) | |
| genotoksilisus | genotoxicity | |
| geodeesia | geodesy (A subdivision of geophysics which includes determination of the size and shape of the earth, the earth's gravitational field, and the location of points fixed to the earth's crust in an earth-referred coordinate system) | |
| geofüüsika | geophysics (The physics of the earth and its environment, that is, earth, air and space) | |
| geofüüsikaline keskkond | geophysical environment (The physical earth and its surroundings, consisting of the oceans and inland waters, lower and upper atmosphere, space, land masses and land forms) |