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General nature or nature terms.

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Paid claims loss ratio

Health care; General

Paid claims divided by premiums. See also Loss Ratio.

Abiogenesis

Biology; General

Early theory that held that some organisms originated from nonliving material.

Asymmetrical

Biology; General

In animals, a term referring to organisms that lack a general body plan or axis of symmetry that divides the body into mirror-image halves.

Abnormal haemoglobin

Biology; General

Haemoglobin molecule with a different shape due to an altered amino acid sequence (ultimately caused by an altered DNA base sequence), such as in the inherited disease sickle-cell anemia.

Abscisic acid

Biology; General

A plant hormone that promotes dormancy in perennial plants and causes rapid closure of leaf stomata when a leaf begins to wilt.

One of the two types of geologic time (relative time being the other), with a definite age date established mostly by the decay of radioactive elements, although ages may also be obtained by counting ...

Amino acid sequence

Biology; General

Also known as the primary structure of a protein/polypeptide; the sequence of amino acids in a protein/polypeptide controlled by the sequence of DNA bases.