Biology

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Fact

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A measured property of the surrounding world, a measured observation.

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The weight of an object

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Law

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A regular pattern of occurrence in nature.

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Universal law of gravity

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Theory

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A general idea that aids in conceptually unifying, hence explaining, many and diverse phenomena of nature

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Inertia

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The tendency for the velocity of any object to stay the same

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If an object is at rest velocity equals zero it tends to stay at rest and if an object is moving at a certain velocity its tendency is to continue to move at that velocity!

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Field force

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The push or pull that an object experiences as the result of an interaction with another object at a distance

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Potential Energy

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The energy associated with the potential due to the presence of one or more forces of an object to increase its velocity or accelerate in the future.

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First law of thermodynamics

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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed only transformed from one type of energy to another

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PE to KE or KE to PE

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Heat

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Random molecular motion

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Self assembly

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The tendency of certain objects due to field force interactions to take on and/or stay in a non random arrangement

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Emergent Property

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Any property of a system that results for the arrangement of the systems parts

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Ordered arrangement

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When the parts of system are arranged in a pattern that is they have a non random arrangement

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Self organization

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A systems parts interact in a way that results in these parts taking in a non random arrangement!

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Process

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That which occurs when something altars in puts such that outputs are different and inputs

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A processor

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Performance

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That which results from two or more processes being linked together by regulatory connections

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Sensor

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Any device that adjusts a processors rate as a response to detecting some change in conditions

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Input based regulation

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Whenever one processor is input limited and the actions of another processor influences the supply of the limiting in put

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Counter acting response

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When a sensor that detects some trend of change initiates rate adjustments that act to reverse the trend

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Co acting response

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When A sensor that detects some trend of change initiates rate adjustment that act to maintain or even accelerate the trend

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Homeostasis

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The act of maintaining similar conditions despite constant disruptive fluctuations

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Information

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What any arrangement that can code for some activity has, something that has information can be interpreted where the interpretation is the conversion of the coded activity into the Activity

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Genome

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A set of information that in total has sufficient information to guide the development of a reproductively competent organism

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Gene

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A single instruction within a genome

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Genotype

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Organisms specific constitution of genetic information

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Phenotype

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The performing or active part of an individual organism which is generally thought of as the organisms body

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Geneticist commonly use the term phenotype to refer to specific features of an individual's body

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Shape performance trade off

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The notion that because an organism has a particular shape at any point during its life it cannot be great at doing everything any shape make certain activities possible but at the cost of not being the best shape to perform well in other ways

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Asexual reproduction

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The production of offspring to buy a single parent where in the absence of errors the parents genotype is past intact to each offspring

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Sex

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When genetic information from more than one individual is combined into a single individual

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Gamete

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The haploid cell capable of using with another gamete typically of the opposite sex to form a diploid cell

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Anisogamy

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When a sexual population produces two distinct types of gametes generally a small more mobile gamete and the larger nutrient laden gamete

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Ploidy level

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The number of genome is contained within a cell

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Biological species concept

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To individual organisms of the opposite sex are members of the same species if and only if they recognize each other as potential mates and if they do need to they can produce viable offspring the largest unit of populations within which the mixing genetic information through sexual reproduction occurs or could occur

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Trophic level

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SPC's position in an energy food chain first trophic level for example our species able to use the sun as an energy source second trophic level species acquire their needed supply of usable energy by feeding on the first trophic level species and so on

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Gross Production efficiency

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The efficiency with which biomass consumed from one trophic level is converted into biomass at the next trophic level

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Niche

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The set of conditions based on each species set of requirements under which a species can maintain a viable population

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Carrying capacity

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Maximum sustainable population size for each species within a community

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Gene pool

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The entire genetic constitution of a sexual population in other words it is all the genetic information contained all the genotypes of the individuals that make up the population

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Mutation

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Modification of the genotype with an individual cell and multicellular organism such modification could occur and either a somatic cell or in its germ cell

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Biological evolution

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The two-step process of a dissent with modification followed by persistence across Gemerations

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Natural selection

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Whenever I modify type is caught in a reproductive race with an ancestral type and the outcome of the race is affected by differences in performance ability

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Genetic drift

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Never a modify type is caught in a reproductive race with an ancestral type and the outcome of the race is affected by chance occurrences

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Phylogeny

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The pattern of relatedness among different species where I need to species relatedness depends on how recently they branch from a common ancestor

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For example if among three species A B and C A and B share a more recent common ancestor than A and C or B and C then A and B are the most closely related species among the three