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Apr
Delta-10 is not an ice cream flavor or a type of gardening. Delta-10 is a method. It was devised by biologists, who use it to design experiments in which they measure how much something grows. The method works as follows: First you figure out how much food each plant needs, and you make that amount available to the plants. Then you count how many plants grow, and multiply by the number of plants you have available. This gives you a number called the "basic reproductive rate." Since there are fixed amounts of land, water and fertilizer on Mars, this number…