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| ideas that unify many and diverse phenomena of nature |
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| the space between objects pulling together from a distance. |
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| energy thats not yet moving or still can move. |
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| 1st law of thermodynamics |
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| energy cant be created/destroyed, just transferred from one type of energy to another. |
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| Tendancy of certain objects to undertake a nonrandom arrangement due to field force interactions |
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| any property of a system that results from the arrangement of the systems parts |
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| when the parts of a system are arranged in a pattern |
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| a systems parts interact in a way that results in these parts taking on a now random arrangement |
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| when a processor alters inputs, such that outputs are different than other outputs |
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| the result of two or more processes being linked together by regulatory connections |
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| any device that adjusts a processors rate as a response to detecting some change in conditions |
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| when one processor is input-limited and teh actions of another processor influences the supply of the limited output |
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| when a sensor that detects change initiates rate adjustments that reverse the trend |
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| when a sensor that detects change initiates rate adjustments that maintain or accelerate the trend. |
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| act of maintaining similar conditions despite constant (disruptive) functuations. |
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| what any arrangement that can cope for some activity |
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| a set of info that, in total, has sufficient info to guide the development of a reproductively competent organism. |
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| a single instruction within a genome. |
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| an organisms specific constitution of genetic information |
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| the performing (active) part of an individual organism, which is generally thought of as an organisms body. |
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| shape-performance trade off |
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| motion that because an organism has a certain shape, it cant be great at doing everything. |
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| the production of offspring by a single parent, where, in the absense of errors, the parents genotpe is passed intact to each offspring. |
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| when genetic information from more than one individual is combined into a single individual |
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| a haploid (single set) cell is capable of rusing with another gamete-typically of the opposite sex-to form a diploid cell |
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| when a sexual population produces 2 distinct types of gametes - generally a small mobile gamete (male) and a larger nutrient laden gamete (women) |
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| the number of genomes contained within a cell |
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| biological species concept |
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| an individual organisms of the opposite sex are members of the same species, if and only if, they recover eachother of potential mates (hence may attempt to mate) |
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| a species position in an energy food chain (organic matter used as fuel) |
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| gross production efficiency |
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| the efficiency with which biomass consumed from one trophic level is converted into biomass at the next trophic level |
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| the set of conditions (based on each species' set of requirements) under which a species can maintain a viable population |
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| the maximum sustainable population size for each species within a community. |
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| the entire genetic constitution of a sexual population |
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| the modifications of a genotype within an individual cell. |
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| the 2-step process by which descent w/modification followed by persistence across generations. |
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