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  2. Systematics - Wikipedia

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    Systematic biology (hereafter called simply systematics) is the field that (a) provides scientific names for organisms, (b) describes them, (c) preserves collections of them, (d) provides classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their distributions, (e) investigates their evolutionary histories, and (f ...

  3. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    oppression is the inhibition of a group through a vast network of everyday practices, attitudes, assumptions, behaviors, and institutional rules. Oppression is structural or systemic. The systemic character of oppression implies that an oppressed group need not have a correlate oppressing group. [14]

  4. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Systematic biology (hereafter called simply systematics) is the field that (a) provides scientific names for organisms, (b) describes them, (c) preserves collections of them, (d) provides classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their distributions, (e) investigates their evolutionary histories, and (f ...

  5. Systemic disease - Wikipedia

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    A systemic disease is one that affects a number of organs and tissues, or affects the body as a whole. [1] It differs from a localized disease , which is a disease affecting only part of the body (e.g., a mouth ulcer ).

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

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    This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...

  7. Systems biology - Wikipedia

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    Systems biology is the computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems.It is a biology-based interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on complex interactions within biological systems, using a holistic approach (holism instead of the more traditional reductionism) to biological research.

  8. Systemic - Wikipedia

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    Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently in response to infection; Systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body; Systemic scleroderma, also known as systemic sclerosis, a systemic connective tissue disease

  9. Systems theory in anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Human societies are also complex systems. Work to define complex systems scientifically arose first in math in the late 19th century, and was later applied to biology in the 1920s to explain ecosystems, then later to social sciences. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson is the most influential and earliest propagator of systems theory in social sciences.