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Amwoga Khalwale What Are Cereals? Cereals are the grasses which come under the monocot family Poaceae, and are harvested for their starch rich grains. Cereal grains are composed of endosperm, germ, and bran. When compared to other type of crops, cereals are the largest energy providers and are grown in greater quantities worldwide. When consider the nutrient … Read more
What Is Hydroponics? Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subject of hydroculture which involves growing plants (usually crops) without soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in the aqueous solvent. Terrestrial plants may grow with only their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid, or, in addition, the roots may be physically supported by an inert medium such as perlite, gravel, or … Read more
What is a Faculty? A faculty is a group of university or college departments concerned with a major division of knowledge. It can also be said to be a self-governing and self-supporting group of scholars around an area of knowledge. The term includes professors of various ranks including assistant professors, substitute teachers, associate professors, etc. … Read more
What Is Structured Data? Data that is the easiest to search and organize, because it is usually contained in rows and columns and its elements can be mapped into fixed pre-defined fields, is known as structured data. Think about what data you might store in an Excel spreadsheet and you have an example of structured … Read more
What Is Acetal? Acetals are geminal-diether derivatives of aldehydes or ketones, formed by reaction with two equivalents (or an excess amount) of an alcohol and elimination of water. Ketone derivatives of this kind were once called ketals, but modern usage has dropped that term. It is important to note that a hemiacetal is formed as … Read more
Fluorescence and phosphorescence are two mechanisms that emit light or examples of photoluminescence. However, the two terms don’t mean the same thing and don’t the same thing and don’t occur the same way. In both fluorescence and phosphorescence, molecules absorb light and emit photons with less energy (longer wavelength), but fluorescence occurs much more quickly … Read more
Introduction A keyboard is an external input device and is attached to your computer or any other device through a wired or wireless connection. It is used for entering letters, symbols, and other characters on the device or even for issuing commands to your computer. There are generally many types of keyboards: However, let’s talk … Read more
Email is basically Short for electronic mail. Email (or e-mail) is defined as the transmission of messages over communications networks. It’s sort of digital message exchange whereas Gmail is an email service provided by Google. There are also other services available in the market, but Gmail is popular one. So it’s always confused as an … Read more
Introduction The source code consists of the programming statements that are created by a programmer with a text editor or a visual programming tool and then saved in a file. For example, a programmer using the C language types in a desired sequence of C language statements using a text editor and then saves them as a named … Read more
What is Pasta? A dish originally from Italy consisting of dough made from durum wheat and water, extruded or stamped into various shapes and typically cooked by baking or boiling water. Rice flour or legumes such as beans or lentils are sometimes used in place of wheat flour to yield a different taste and texture, or as … Read more