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21feeding behaviour — Any action of an animal directed toward obtaining nutrients. Each species evolves methods of searching for, obtaining, and ingesting food for which it can successfully compete. Some species eat only one type of food, others a variety. Among… …
22Cerebrovascular disease — Classification and external resources Cerebrovascular disease is a group of brain dysfunctions related to disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain. Hypertension is the most important cause; it damages the blood vessel lining, endothelium …
23Trophic state index — The quantities of nitrogen, phosphorus, and other biologically useful nutrients are the primary determinants of a body of water s trophic state index (TSI). Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus tend to be limiting resources in standing water …
24soil — soil1 soilless, adj. /soyl/, n. 1. the portion of the earth s surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus. 2. a particular kind of earth: sandy soil. 3. the ground as producing vegetation or as cultivated for its crops: fertile soil. 4. a… …
25Drosera — Sundew redirects here. For other uses, see Sundew (disambiguation). For other uses, see Drosera (disambiguation). Drosera Drosera tokaiensis …
26protist — protistan /proh tis teuhn/, adj., n. protistic, adj. /proh tist/, n. any of various one celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and… …
27Bacterial growth — Growth is shown as L = log(numbers) where numbers is the number of colony forming units per ml, versus T (time.) Bacterial growth is the division of one bacterium into two daughter cells in a process called binary fission. Providing no mutational …
28Sundew — Taxobox name = Drosera image width = 250px image caption = Drosera tokaiensis regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Caryophyllales familia = Droseraceae genus = Drosera genus authority = L. subdivision ranks =… …
29boreal forest — ▪ northern forest Introduction also called taiga vegetation composed primarily of cone bearing, needle leaved, or scale leaved evergreen trees, found in regions that have long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation. The… …
30Cell growth — The term cell growth is used in two different ways in biology. When used in the context of reproduction cells of living cells the phrase cell growth is shorthand for the idea of growth in cell populations by means of cell reproduction. During… …
