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  2. Biological process - Wikipedia

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    Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression, protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule. Homeostasis: regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, sweating to reduce temperature

  3. Pivotal quantity - Wikipedia

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    Then is called a pivotal quantity (or simply a pivot). Pivotal quantities are commonly used for normalization to allow data from different data sets to be compared. It is relatively easy to construct pivots for location and scale parameters: for the former we form differences so that location cancels, for the latter ratios so that scale cancels.

  4. Life history theory - Wikipedia

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    It is a theory of biological evolution that seeks to explain aspects of organisms' anatomy and behavior by reference to the way that their life histories—including their reproductive development and behaviors, post-reproductive behaviors, and lifespan (length of time alive)—have been shaped by natural selection.

  5. Chronobiology - Wikipedia

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    Chronobiology comes from the ancient Greek χρόνος (chrónos, meaning "time"), and biology, which pertains to the study, or science, of life. The related terms chronomics and chronome have been used in some cases to describe either the molecular mechanisms involved in chronobiological phenomena or the more quantitative aspects of ...

  6. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    However, viruses are still poorly understood and may have arisen before "life" itself, or may be a more recent phenomenon. Major extinctions in terrestrial vertebrates and large amphibians. Earliest examples of armoured dinosaurs. 195 Ma First pterosaurs with specialized feeding (Dorygnathus). First sauropod dinosaurs.

  7. Big History - Wikipedia

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    For example, the ChronoZoom project is a way to explore the 14 billion year history of the universe in an interactive website format. [ 8 ] [ 60 ] It was described in one account:

  8. Ancillary statistic - Wikipedia

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    Its probability distribution does not depend on the batter's ability, since it was chosen by a random process independent of the batter's ability. This ancillary statistic is an ancillary complement to the observed batting average X / N , i.e., the batting average X / N is not a sufficient statistic , in that it conveys less than all of the ...

  9. Contingency (evolutionary biology) - Wikipedia

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    This terrestrial bias could hinder the search for extraterrestrial life by assuming that alien life must conform to Earth-like biochemical frameworks. The authors propose a model that incorporates both deterministic and contingent processes, suggesting a spectrum of possibilities for how life could arise under different environmental conditions.