Organic vocab

5. a careful preservation and protection of something; especially planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, pollution, destruction or neglect
6. usually small plastic pieces with embedded hormones that are inserted under an animals skin for slow release of chemicals
7. to soil, stain, or infect by contact or association
9. large pens of livestock kept confined and usually fed grain until large enough to harvest
12. biological variety in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals
15. insects that perform valued services like pollination and pest control
17. a substance obtained from a chemical process or used to get a chemical result
18. introducing dna from other species in order to get new characteristics such as vitamin production, disease resistance, etc.

1. an individual grown from a single body cell of its parent and having the same genes as its parent
2. small cages used to hold several hens for a long period of time
3. following, agreeing with, or based on a way of doing things
4. chemicals used to kill bacteria
6. ecological approach to pest management, incorporating all available techniques in a plan to manage the pest in such a manner that economic risk is reduced and adverse side effects are minimized
8. chemicals that kill plants
10. made, produced, or preformed by human beings
11. chemicals made in one part of the body that act on another part of the body;part of the body's chemical message system; used to make livestock grow faster
13. chemicals that kill insects
14. a substance used to make larger or more plant life
16. endorsed authoritatively as having met certain standards
19. the state of wearing away by or as if by the action of water, wind or glacial ice