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  2. Complex traits - Wikipedia

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    Human height is a continuous trait meaning that there is a wide range of heights. There are an estimated 50 genes that affect the height of a human. Environmental factors, like nutrition, also play a role in a human's height. Other examples of complex traits include: crop yield, plant color, and many diseases including diabetes and Parkinson's ...

  3. Human variability - Wikipedia

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    Examples of variations which may be given different values in different societies include skin color and/or body structure. Race and sex have a strong value difference, while handedness has a much weaker value difference. The values given to different traits among human variability are often influenced by what phenotypes are more prevalent ...

  4. Food processing - Wikipedia

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    Baking bread is an example of secondary food processing. Secondary food processing is the everyday process of creating food from ingredients that are ready to use. Baking bread, regardless of whether it is made at home, in a small bakery, or in a large factory, is an example of secondary food processing. [2]

  5. Human food - Wikipedia

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    Human food is food which is fit for human consumption, and which humans willingly eat. Food is a basic necessity of life, and humans typically seek food out as an instinctual response to hunger ; however, not all things that are edible constitute as human food.

  6. Phenomics - Wikipedia

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    Phenomics is concerned with the measurement of the phenotype where a phenome is a set of traits (physical and biochemical traits) that can be produced by a given organism over the course of development and in response to genetic mutation and environmental influences. An organism's phenotype changes with time.

  7. Food system - Wikipedia

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    The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture.A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, distribution, and disposal of food and food-related items.

  8. Body shape - Wikipedia

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    Human gait – A pattern of limb movements made during locomotion; Human physical appearance – Look, outward phenotype Phenotype – Composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits; List of human positions – Physical configurations of the human body; Human skeleton – Internal framework of the human body

  9. Human physical appearance - Wikipedia

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    Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Image of a European female (left) and an East Asian male (right) human body seen from front (upper) and back (lower). Adult human bodies photographed whose naturally-occurring pubic, body, facial, but not head hair have been deliberately removed to show anatomy.