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Rice
Title: Rice
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1872 | Pages: 8.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Rice
Rice is the main food for about one-third to one-half of the world's population. A mature rice plant is usually two to six feet tall. In the beginning, one shoot appears. It is followed by one, two, or more offshoots developing. There are at least five or six hollow joints for each stalk, and a leaf for each joint. The leaf of the rice plant is long, pointed, flat, and stiff. The highest join of …showed first 75 words of 1872 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1872 total…and that farmers will be using the enhanced genes on their rice plants by the beginning of the next century.
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