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| someone who studies primates (i.e. apes, monkeys) |
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| someone who studies animal behavior |
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| someone who studies the nervous system |
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| a marine creature with seven pairs of identical legs |
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| a living thing that carries all characteristics of life |
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| a community of organisms and their environment |
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| the variation of life forms within an ecosystem and is used as a measure of the health of biological systems |
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| the level of nbiodiversity that refers to the total number of characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species |
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| the genus that consists of three iguanid species native to the islands in the south pacific |
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| a substance or procedure a patient accepts as a medicine or therapy but that might have no actual medical effect |
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| hormone produced by pituitary gland that relieves pain and makes one feel happy |
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| degenerative disease that impairs the central nervous system and also impairs the sufferer's motor skills and speech |
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| a substance acted upon by an enzyme |
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| the science of the interaction of electrical and chemical phenomena |
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| specialist in the science of the mind or mental states and processes |
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| something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought, etc. |
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| structure of the brian that plays a large role in body representation and subjunctive emotional experiences |
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| the muscular tissue of the heart |
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| being in accord with or the characteristic of the normal functioning of a living organism |
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| a gland that makes and stores hormones that regulate the heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and the rate at which food is converted into energy |
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| a theoretical subatomic particle of extremely small mass |
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| a scientific theory in which the universe began from the explosion of a small particle |
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| a mysterious and still hypothetical type of matter said to make up 95% of the observable universe |
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| a naturally occuring organic compound consisting of solely hydrogen and carbon |
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| succession of water movement from the atmosphere to the earth and return to the atmosphere through various form-changing states, such as precipitation and evaporation |
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| an oderless, colorless, flammable gas that is a major constituent of natural gas and is an important source of hydrogen and a wide variety of organic compounds |
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