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A natural science concerned with the study of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially in relation to their origin, growth, reproduction, structure, behaviour and evolution.

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laminar flow
Biology; Ecology

Uninterrupted parallel flows of liquid, as with blood flowing smoothly through the circulatory system.

calcification
Biology; Ecology

Accumulation of calcium carbonate in upper soil layers. Frequent in semi-arid areas and in grasslands.

cotyledon
Biology; Ecology

Embryo or seed leaves. They store nutrients for the seed until it grows its own photosynthetic leaves.

berm
Biology; Ecology

A level, narrow ledge or bench that divides a stream or separates water from land, as in a canal path.

biophilia
Biology; Ecology

Love of nature. Coined by biologist E. O. Wilson. The opposite of necrophilia, the love of dead things.

subduction
Biology; Ecology

Where one continental plate is pushed under another into the asthenosphere below. See Plate Tectonics.

junk DNA
Biology; Ecology

Strips of DNA whose purposes have not been identified. They seem to play no role in anything genetic.

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