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Describes the efficiency with which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
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A measure of the potential energy in water as well as the difference between the potential in a given water sample and pure water.
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Component of the blood that functions in the immune system. Also known as a leukocyte.
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The electrons in the outermost occupied shell (or shells) determine the chemical properties of the atom.
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The yellow colored photosynthetic pigments.
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The valence band is the highest range of electron energies in which electrons are normally present at absolute zero temperature.
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A organism in which internal physiological sources of heat are of relatively small or quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature. “Cold blooded”.
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An interaction of living things and non-living things in a physical environment.
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A heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. It forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates, such as ammonium acid urate.
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Describes a genetically distinct geographic variety, population or race within a species, which is adapted to specific environmental conditions.
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The outermost layer of cells or tissue of an embryo in early development, or the parts derived from this, which include the epidermis, nerve tissue, and nephridia.
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In several fields the valence of an element refers to the number of elements to which it can connect.
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A membrane-bound organelle which is present in all plant and fungal cells and some protist, animal and bacterial cells.
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A biological agent that reproduces inside the cells of living hosts.
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A liquid by- product of the body secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination (or micturition) and excreted through the urethra.
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The vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.
