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  • In [[biology]], an '''organism''' is any living [[thing]] (such as animal, plant, fungus The concept of superorganism is under dispute, as many [[biology|biologists]] maintain that in order for a social unit to be considered an o
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  • :Molecular biology of the human species.
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  • ...ned indirectly from anatomical and embryological causes and, increasingly, molecular evidence. Thanks to various sophisticated methods of dating, researchers ca ...gs), mutationism (major one-step changes), genetic drift (randomness), and molecular drive (DNA has its own built-in ways of change); none has established itsel
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  • ...are manipulated indirectly. Genetic engineering uses the [[technique]]s of molecular cloning and transformation to alter the [[structure]] and characteristics o ...the function of a gene. It is used especially frequently in developmental biology. A knockout experiment involves the creation and manipulation of a DNA cons
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  • ...chemistry]], the [[energy]] related studies of chemical systems at macro, molecular and submolecular scales; [[analytical chemistry]], the analysis of material ...n in a hierarchy of the sciences by "reductive level", between physics and biology. See Carsten Reinhardt. ''Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century: Bridging B
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  • ...network theory, mechanical engineering, [[logic]] modeling, evolutionary [[biology]], neuroscience, [[anthropology]], and [[psychology]] in the 1940s, often a ...ty. These concepts are studied by other subjects such as engineering and [[biology]], but in cybernetics these are removed from the [[context]] of the [[indiv
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  • ..., '''evolution''' is the change in the [[heritability|inherited]] [[trait (biology)|traits]] of a [[population]] from generation to generation. These traits a ...|predictive]] theory has become the central organizing principle of modern biology, providing a unifying explanation for the [[biodiversity|diversity of life]
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  • ...in [[psychology]], [[cognitive science]], [[neuroscience]] and [[molecular biology]]. [[Category: Biology]]
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  • ...ng ecology as a subject in its own right as opposed to a sub-discipline of biology, [[Robert Ulanowicz]] stated that "''The emerging picture of ecosystem beha [[Category: Biology]]
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  • ...s will be potentially dangerous.</blockquote> Michael Archer, professor of biology at the University of New South Wales, Australia, has put it this way:1 ...versity could be anticipated if life can arise from a variety of different molecular building blocks. An important factor in this is where the first few chemica
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  • ...t the nature of explanation. Explanations in psychology, neuroscience, and biology in general are plausibly viewed as descriptions of mechanisms, which are sy ...planation: A Mechanistic Alternative. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, 36, 421-441.
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  • ...ieve that future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation with [[stem cells]], molecular repair, and organ replacement (such as with artificial organs or xenotransp ...he rate of aging damage, by periodic replacement of damaged tissues, or by molecular repair or rejuvenation of deteriorated cells and tissues.
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  • '''Stress''' is a [[Biology|biological]] term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a [[hu There was renewed laboratory research into the [[neuroendocrine]], [[molecular]] and [[immunological]] bases of stress, conceived as a useful heuristic no
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  • * with the advent of molecular techniques used to get a better handle on genetic introgression (gene flow) ...th using cladistics to support concepts of race. They emphasize that "the molecular and biochemical proponents of this model explicitly use racial categories '
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  • ...utte A (2003). "The segmented Urbilateria: A testable scenario.". Int Comp Biology 43: 137–47. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.137. [https://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi ...GJ, Agranoff BW, Albers RW, Fisher SK, Uhler MD. ed. Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects. Philadelphia: Lippincott. pp. 637–70. ISBN
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  • ...there are those who have a penchant for [[poetry]] and those who prefer [[biology]] lab. Some are [[science]] minded and some are liberal [[arts]] minded. Th ...that was the problem. [[Lazarus]] was [[raised from the dead]], and his [[molecular]] constitution was put into abeyance, at least until the point was made. In
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  • Molecular [[biology]] may have in reach an unravelling of the thread whose beginning is that
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  • ...use of the term "race" itself must be analyzed. Moreover, they argue that biology will not explain why or how people use the idea of race: history and social ...(Sider 1996; see also Fields 1990). The differences have little to do with biology and far more to do with the history of [[racism]] and specific forms of [[W
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  • ...y. This benign virus will permeate all life and recreate the uplift to the biology of all living things. None can resist for long. Those who continue to resis ...from a chartreuse to a clear white, to a neon blue arranged almost in the molecular design. Mostly the blue. (short silence)
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