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OPERATOR and EFFECT

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AND narrows your results by saying all the search terms must be present in each result, although they do not necessarily have to be together.

crop AND yield

OR broadens your results by saying either search term is present in each result.

crop OR yield

NOT narrows your results by saying a search term must not be present in each result.

crop NOT yield

Quotation Marks narrow your results by saying the entire phrase must be present in each result.

"crop yield"

An asterisk is like a wild card. Any other element can be part of the search term, which means a result can include other forms of the word, like children for child*.

child*

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Minerals for Beef Cattle

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Minerals make up a small amount of the diet for the beef animal. However, that does not undermine their importance. Minerals are required for metabolism, immunity, reproduction, and growth (Greene, 2000). Both under- and over-supplementing minerals can be costly to animal performance.
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