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Environmentally destructive pesticide
Answer for the clue "Environmentally destructive pesticide ", 3 letters:
ddt
Alternative clues for the word ddt
- Eco hazard
- Target of a 1972 ban in the U.S.
- One target of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"
- Substance whose primary use earned its discoverer the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology - but is now banned
- Bug spray abbr
- "Silent Spring" subj.
- Banned insecticide's letters
- Chloral derivative, for short
- The EPA banned it in 1972
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D-dopachrome decarboxylase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DDT gene . D-dopachrome tautomerase converts D-dopachrome into 5,6-dihydroxyindole. The DDT gene is related to the macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in terms of sequence, ...
Usage examples of ddt.
Victoria had gone with her instincts where Deirdre and Neil Hersey were concerned , and things could ddt have worked out better.
She was sure she was crying, because she d never been so frightened in her life, but she could ddt distinguish tears from raindrops.