General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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A celestial radio source producing intense short bursts of radio emission. Since their discovery in 1968, over 1750 pulsars have been found (as of October 2006), and it has become clear that 100,000 ...

sister chromatid cohesion

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A cell's genome contains instructions required by that cell to function and exist. All organisms, whether single-celled or multicellular, require a complete set of instructions contained in the form ...

cellular automata

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A cellular automaton is a hypothetical computer constructed of a regular array of cells that interact with neighboring cells according to a set of simple rules. Though conceptually simple, cellular ...

nucleotide

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A cellular constituent that is one of the building blocks of ribonucleic acids (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In biological systems, nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order to make long, ...

ultracentrifuge

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A centrifuge of high or low speed which provides convection-free conditions and which is used for quantitative measurement of sedimentation velocity or sedimentation equilibrium or for the separation ...

neoproterozoic predator-prey dynamics

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A century and a half ago, in On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin presented the notion that animal evolution was governed by natural selection, by which fitness in the face of competition, ...

triticale

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A cereal grass plant (× Triticosecale ) obtained from hybridization of wheat ( Triticum ) with rye ( Secale cereale ). It is a crop plant with a small-seeded cereal grain that is used for human food ...