the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.

prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.

the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force.

originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.

covered with trees.

In an incipient manner.

lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.

the state or condition of being greater in number or amount.

of, denoting, or relating to herbs

a region of transition between two biological communities.

a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material (such as wax or metal) when it cools and hardens

the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.

the action or process of making something stronger or more solid.

a continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct.

a narrow section of road or a junction that impedes traffic flow

the genetic constitution of an individual organism.

the acquisition or gradual gathering of something.

one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

enough or more than enough; plentiful.

the transfer of genetic information from one species to another as a result of hybridization between them and repeated backcrossing.

a thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action.

of considerable importance, size, or worth.

in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent.

relating to or consisting of molecules.

a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.