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  2. Adolph Bandelier - Wikipedia

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    Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 – March 18, 1914) was a Swiss and American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the ...

  3. Glossary of biology - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.It is intended as introductory material for novices; for more specific and technical definitions from sub-disciplines and related fields, see Glossary of cell biology, Glossary of genetics, Glossary of evolutionary biology, Glossary of ecology ...

  4. Cell adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of cell adhesion. Cell adhesion is the process by which cells interact and attach to neighbouring cells through specialised molecules of the cell surface. This process can occur either through direct contact between cell surfaces such as cell junctions or indirect interaction, where cells attach to surrounding extracellular matrix, a gel-like structure containing molecules released ...

  5. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [6] [7] [8] ...

  6. Bandelier (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Bandelier most commonly refers to Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, United States. Bandelier may also refer to: Bandelier Tuff, a geologic formation found in ...

  7. Cell fate determination - Wikipedia

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    For a good review of the part of the history of morphogen signaling and development see Briscoe J, Making a grade: Sonic Hedgehog signalling and the control of neural cell fate. [ 28 ] In systems biology, cell-fate determination is predicted to exhibit certain dynamics, such as attractor-convergence (the attractor can be an equilibrium point ...

  8. Function (biology) - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary biology, function is the reason some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through natural selection.That reason is typically that it achieves some result, such as that chlorophyll helps to capture the energy of sunlight in photosynthesis.

  9. Order (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks.A class contains one or more orders. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. Order (Latin: ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.