Colostrum Colostrum Colostrum (known colloquially as beestings, bisnings or first milk) is the first form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals (including many humans) immediately following delivery of the newborn. Most species will generate colostrum just prior to giving birth. Colostrum contains antibodies to protect the newborn against disease. In general, protein concentration in colostrum is substantially higher than in milk. Fat concentration is substantially higher in colostrum than in milk in some species, e.g. sheep and horses, but lower in colostrum than in milk in some other species, e.g. camels and humans. In swine, fat concentration of
Invariant of a binary form invariant polynomials on "V". Invariants of a binary form of degree "n" correspond to taking "V" to be the ("n" + 1)-dimensional irreducible representation, and covariants correspond to taking "V" to be the sum of the irreducible representations of dimensions 2 and "n" + 1. The invariants of a binary form form a graded algebra, and proved that this algebra is finitely generated if the base field is the complex numbers. Forms of degrees 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are sometimes called quadrics, cubic, quartics, quintics, sextics, septics or septimics, octics or octavics, nonics, and decics