Name: Honey Bees: What All the Buzz is About?
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 6 min 59 s
Description: Honey bees are super important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. They are eusocial flying insects within the genus Apis of the bee clade.

Question

a. Growing fish or other aquatic animals and plants together in an integrated system. The fish wastes provides nutrients for the plants and the plants filter the water. Additionally, bacteria break down by-products such as ammonia.

b. Growing plants in a nutrient solution instead of soil. Fish kept in the water provide the required nutrients.

Write the appropriate scientific terms for above (a) and (b) and differentiate between them.

Accepted Answer

a. Growing fish or other aquatic animals and plants together in an integrated system is called aquaponics. It uses animals and plants in a symbiotic combination.

b. The method of growing plants in non-soil media and nutrient-laden water is called hydroponics.

Feature Hydroponics Aquaponics

Components It is the cultivation of only the plant species on nutrient media without the involvement of the soil. It is the combination of hydroponics and aquaculture where plants and other aquatic organisms are also incorporated.

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