Chapter 1

Question 0

Adaption

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the act of adapting.

Question 1

Organization

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the act or process of organizing.

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Reproduction

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the act or process of reproducing.

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Development

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the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.

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Homeostasis

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the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.

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Correlation

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A relationship be one event or action of another

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Metabolism

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Biology, Physiology . the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.

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Observation

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an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.

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Prediction

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Something that is predicted

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Hypothesis

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a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc.: a chemical experiment; a teaching experiment; an experiment in living.

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Peer review

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evaluation of a person’s work or performance by a group of people in the same occupation, profession, or industry.

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Indicatior

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a person or thing that indicates.

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Sustainability

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the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.

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Land degration

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When the quality of land starts to lesson

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Trade off

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the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.

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Scientific method

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a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.

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Evidence

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that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.

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Independent variable

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Statistics . (in an experiment) a variable that is intentionally changed to observe its effect on the dependent variable.

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Dependent variable

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Statistics. (in an experiment) the event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed.

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Eutrophication

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Medicine/Medical . pertaining to or being in a condition of eutrophy.
Ecology . (of a lake) characterized by an abundant accumulation of nutrients that support a dense growth of algae and other organisms, the decay of which depletes the shallow waters of oxygen in summer.

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Experimental group

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(in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects who are exposed to the variable under study: a lower infection rate in the experimental group that received the vaccine.

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Control group

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(in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects closely resembling the treatment group in many demographic variables but not receiving the active medication or factor under study and thereby serving as a comparison group when treatment results are evaluated.

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Experiment

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a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc.: a chemical experiment; a teaching experiment; an experiment in living.

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Causal relationship

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An occurrence between two correlated events when one events directly produces another event in a causal relationship the cause alone produce the effect