General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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Cold-seep ecosystems are biological communities sustained by the seepage from the ocean subsurface of cold fluid containing chemicals (especially methane but also sulfide). Since their discovery in ...

Medicinal mushrooms

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Certain mushrooms have long been valued as flavorful and nutritious foods by many societies worldwide. Furthermore, some of these societies, especially in the Far East, have long recognised that ...

Herbicide

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Any chemical used to destroy or inhibit plant growth, especially of weeds or other undesirable vegetation. The concepts of modern herbicide technology began to develop about 1900 and accelerated ...

DNA repair

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Every cell in our body contains genetic information for its proper functioning. This information is present in the long stretch of nucleotides—adenosine (A), cytosine (C), guanosine (G), and ...

Reproductive behaviour

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Behaviour related to the production of offspring; it includes such patterns as the establishment of mating systems, courtship, sexual behavior, parturition, and the care of young. Successful ...

Fungal secondary metabolites

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Fungi are eukaryotic organisms known to inhabit almost all ecological niches of the Earth and have the ability to utilise various solid substrates as a consequence of diversity of their biological ...

Conservation paleobiology

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Conservation paleobiology is a new, pragmatic, socially relevant discipline within paleobiology. Its emergence stems from the growing realisation that the fossil record of the very recent past (the ...