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- Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such...238 KB (24,716 words) - 22:03, 20 July 2024
- Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human...76 KB (8,262 words) - 04:27, 15 July 2024
- Ecology (from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) 'house', and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms,...210 KB (21,521 words) - 16:24, 19 July 2024
- The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member...149 KB (16,549 words) - 21:10, 21 July 2024
- Metabolism (/məˈtæbəlɪzəm/, from Greek: μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main functions...113 KB (12,382 words) - 13:36, 8 July 2024
- Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive spherically shaped bacterium, a member of the Bacillota, and is a usual member of the microbiota of the body,...114 KB (12,744 words) - 15:07, 22 July 2024
- The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous...200 KB (21,857 words) - 02:25, 22 July 2024
- An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until...42 KB (4,707 words) - 02:14, 4 July 2024
- Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a coenzyme central to metabolism. Found in all living cells, NAD is called a dinucleotide because it consists...79 KB (8,992 words) - 01:33, 28 June 2024
- Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes...70 KB (7,943 words) - 23:33, 19 July 2024
- Erectile dysfunction (ED), also referred to as impotence, is a form of sexual dysfunction in males characterized by the persistent or recurring inability...68 KB (7,128 words) - 02:10, 3 July 2024
- Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in...25 KB (2,484 words) - 07:45, 7 May 2024
- Archaeopteryx (/ˌɑːrkiːˈɒptərɪks/; lit. 'old-wing'), sometimes referred to by its German name, "Urvogel" (lit. Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs...106 KB (11,437 words) - 23:10, 15 July 2024
- A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only...113 KB (14,438 words) - 03:36, 22 June 2024
- Postsynaptic density Voltage- gated Ca++ channel Synaptic vesicle Neurotransmitter transporter Receptor Neurotransmitter Axon terminal Synaptic cleft Dendrite...94 KB (8,341 words) - 12:41, 1 June 2024
- The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is the most widespread of the New World vultures. One of three species in the genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae...59 KB (5,829 words) - 06:07, 7 July 2024
- Woman on top is any sex position in which the woman is on top of her sexual partner during sexual activity. The position most commonly associated with...14 KB (1,512 words) - 14:44, 15 July 2024
- In biology, homology is similarity due to shared ancestry between a pair of structures or genes in different taxa. A common example of homologous structures...40 KB (4,046 words) - 19:47, 16 June 2024
- In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids) is a clade of flowering plants within the monocots, distinguished by having cell walls containing...12 KB (837 words) - 13:13, 30 June 2024
- The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. They are one of the largest animal families with 6,800 genera...11 KB (1,071 words) - 02:33, 25 April 2024