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  2. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    41 of the 118 known elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the places on Earth, and the other nine are named after to Solar System objects: helium for the Sun; tellurium for the Earth; selenium for the Moon; mercury (indirectly), uranium, neptunium and plutonium after their respective ...

  3. Glossary of environmental science - Wikipedia

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    ecosystem - a dynamic complex of plant, animal and microorganism communities and their non-living environment all interacting as a functional unit. e-cycling – recycling electronic waste . effective rainfall – the volume of rainfall passing into the soil; that part of rainfall available for plant use after runoff, leaching, evaporation and ...

  4. Heterotroph - Wikipedia

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    In the food chain, heterotrophs are primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, but not producers. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Living organisms that are heterotrophic include all animals and fungi , some bacteria and protists , [ 5 ] and many parasitic plants .

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for dog). These words may not be included in the table below if they only occur for one or two taxa.

  8. Chemical nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    For the new "element" caloric, both the new and some of the "old" names (igneous fluid and matter of fire and of heat) were coined by Lavoisier, their discoverer. Most element names, however, were not new, so they retained their existing English versions. But their status as elements was new—a product of the chemical revolution.

  9. Abiogenesis - Wikipedia

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    The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities on Earth was not a single event, but a process of increasing complexity involving the formation of a habitable planet, the prebiotic synthesis of organic molecules, molecular self-replication, self-assembly, autocatalysis, and the emergence of cell ...