The Emergence Machine

Crop

physical · Biology · Level 7 · E11

E11Organizations

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A crop is a plant grown for food or material, building on the idea that plants require cell and are grown for consumption.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “crop” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “crop”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0CropFoodPlantAnimalOrganismCellFormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesAgronomyL8FamineL8Field LandL8GrainL8IntercroppingL8CropL7FoodL6PlantL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Food L6 (requires)
    Crops are grown to produce food
  • Plant L6 (requires) polysemous
    A crop is a plant grown for food or material

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