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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A large group of minerals in which boron is chemically bonded to oxygen. Boron is a fairly rare element. However, because of its chemical character, it is very susceptible to fractionation in Earth ...

Streptococcus

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A large genus of spherical or ovoid bacteria that are characteristically arranged in pairs or in chains resembling strings of beads. Many of the streptococci that constitute part of the normal flora ...

Prosobranchia

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A large group of marine, land, and freshwater gastropods (helically coiled snails, slugs, and limpets within the phylum Mollusca) that is characterised literally by the presence of "gills in front of ...

Dicotyledons

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A large group of flowering plants (angiosperms) that for many years has been considered one of the two main categories of plants, the other being monocotyledons. Dicotyledons have two seedling leaves ...

Pteropsida

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A large group of vascular plants characterised by having parenchymatous leaf gaps in the stele (vascular system of the stem) and by having leaves which are thought to have originated in the distant ...

Developmental biology

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A large field of investigation that includes the study of all changes associated with an organism as it progresses through the life cycle. The life cycles of all multicellular organisms exhibit many ...

Iceberg

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A large mass of glacial ice broken off and drifted from parent glaciers or ice shelves along polar seas. Icebergs are distinguished from polar pack ice, which is sea ice, and from frozen seawater, ...