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| | Biology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Biology has become such a vast research enterprise that it is not generally regarded as a single discipline, but as a number of clustered sub-disciplines. | | | Developmental biology studies life at the level of an individual organism's development or ontogeny. | | | The central organizing concept in biology is that all life has a common origin and has changed and developed through the process of evolution (see Common descent). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology
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| | Analogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Analogous structures are the result of convergent evolution and should be contrasted with homologous structures. | | | Analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. | | | Analogy plays a significant role in problem solving, decision making, perception, memory, creativity, emotion, explanation and communication. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
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| | Species - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Taxonomists are often referred to as "lumpers" or "splitters" by their colleagues, depending on their personal approach to recognizing differences or commonalities between organisms (see lumpers and splitters). | | | Obviously, when defining a species, the geographic circumstances become meaningful only if the populations groups in question are clearly different: if they are not consistently and reliably distinguishable from one another, then we have no grounds for believing that they might be different species. | | | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested that an organism could pass on an acquired trait to its offspring, i.e., the giraffe's long neck was attributed to generations of giraffes stretching to reach the leaves of higher treetops (this well-known and simplistic example, however, does not do justice to the breadth and subtlety of Lamarck's ideas). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_(biology)
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| | Gram staining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This shortens the length of the procedure considerably, which is especially useful if staining a large amount of samples (which is often the case in a clinical laboratory). | | | Gram staining is one of the most useful staining procedures in bacteriological laboratory. | | | Organisms that cannot reliably be differentiated by this staining technique are said to be Gram-variable. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_staining
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| | What is Human Biology |
| | Human Biology is concerned with understanding the human condition from a primarily biological point of view. | | | Human Biology is characterized by a holistic approach, appreciating that life is more than the physical and chemical processes that underlay it. | | | Human Biologists are specialists - in bringing together the disparate sub-components that contribute to the human condition so that we can more fully understand how humans function and behave, and how these processes arose. |
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http://www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/hb101/whatis.html
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| | bihu.html |
| | Biology and the two cultures The subject to be discussed here is the relationship between biology as one of natural sciences and humanitarian culture of the society within which biologists live. | | | Cultural premises of professional activity, including biology, are considered in metabletics (historical psychology) studies in Leyden, where family life, sex and age differences, social status and style of life are examined [14; 23]. | | | Of particular importance is the professional culture of a biologist (his awareness of methods and theories), which should be an unalienable part of the general culture (where humanitarian interpretations of biological conceptions are also represented, see 3.5). |
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http://www.gypsymoth.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/biosem/chebanov/bihu.html
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| | FROM LANGUAGE TO NATURE - the semiotic metaphor in biology |
| | In a review of 'the molecular biology that was', Gunther Stent calls attention to the differences between the structural and the informational school of molecular biology in their respective interests and conceptions of subject matter. | | | Wagner, G.P. "The gene and its phenotype." Biology and Philosophy 3(1), 105-115. | | | Philosophers of science have discussed 1) if models or analogies are logically and epistemologically redundant and unnecessary, not explaining the phenomena (claiming that theory should bind together experimental laws), 2) or if to be intellectually satisfying, a theory must also consist in a (non-deductive) relation of analogy with some known field of phenomena (cf. |
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http://www.geneticengineering.org/dna5
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| | Homology |
| | Evolution and homology are closely related concepts but they are not circular: homology of a structure is diagnosed and tested by outside elements: structure, position, etc., and whether or not the pattern of distribution of the trait is genealogical. | | | Homology is a specific explanation of similarity of form seen in the biological world. | | | According to Wells, textbooks should explain that homologies are similarities of structure and function due not to common ancestry but to a common "archetype" or basic plan on which all forms were based (Wells is remarkably cagey as to what he means by "archetype"). |
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http://www.ncseweb.org/icons/icon3homology.html
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| | Cell (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first pathway, glycolysis, requires no oxygen and is referred to as anaerobic metabolism. | | | Other organisms, such as humans, are multicellular, (humans have an estimated 100 trillion or 10 | | | Another theory holds that the turbulent shores of the ancient coastal waters may have served as a mammoth laboratory, aiding in the countless experiments necessary to bring about the first cell. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)
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| | Human Biology & Nutritional Sciences - Undergraduate |
| | Human Kinetics - The Human Kinetics program has as its particular focus the biology of humans and human populations living and moving in a variety of conditions and situations. | | | In Human Kinetics, an area of emphasis in either nutrition, exercise and metabolism, human population biology or biomechanics and ergonomics may be chosen. | | | Human anatomy is in the core for Human Kinetics and Bio-Medical Science. |
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/hbns/undergraduate.shtml
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| | Article 1 |
| | Mediation is described in misleading and Pollyannaish terms, such as: "a win/win process," or as "a collaborative problem solving process." The implicit suggestion is that all parties will be satisfied with the outcome, respect each other or even be friends. | | | Even so, many mediators are waiting for or actively lobbying legislatures or courts to enact or implement mediation programs in the belief that they will deliver mediation work to their doorstep; however, a steady stream of mediation business has not materialized for many mediators. | | | There are three basic tenets of guerilla mediation: (1) respect for human nature as it is, not as we would like to believe it could be; (2) a realistic understanding and acceptance of conflict; and, (3) the effective use of strategic planning. |
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http://www.mediate.com/rbenjamin/article3.htm
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| | Slippery Rock University - Honors Program Website |
| | Strain was looking for an environment that encouraged both teaching and research, and SRU encouraged both. | | | Strain says that he is still forming goals for the program's future. | | | He also suggested that he is interested in taking the momentum the program has established and focusing primarily on academics and putting less emphasis on service and extracurricular events. |
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http://academics.sru.edu/honors/index.asp?showContent=Strain
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| | A Special Human Biology |
| | In this regard he advocates 'a special biology of man: a biology that is necessitated by, and defined by, the breakthrough of reflection.' (1) Granted, such a biology will have features in common with the normal, everyday biological sciences that deal with life at the levels of 'viruses and genes' and 'cellular beings'. | | | From Teilhard's standpoint, biology, at the reflective level, is prolonged in 'the socialization of mankind' (20); he quite clearly makes an 'identification of human socialization with the main terrestrial axis of evolution' (21). | | | By contrast, the value and dignity of human beings, in the view of the Auvergnian Jesuit, lies in their ability, within limits, to freely choose to support, or decline to support, the process of humanity's convergence (or totalization) upon itself. |
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http://noosphere.cc/biology.html
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| | IAMED |
| | But mediators, as all human beings, have a need to imbue their work with special meaning--it is part of our evolutionary biology and psychology. | | | Many mediators approach practice as "value creators" and bring a certain value orientation and purpose to their work, as contrasted with the more traditional "value claimers", who merely view mediation as a means of allowing parties to obtain what they think is rightfully theirs and settle the dispute. | | | For instance, for a mediator to pursue mediation as a strictly rational problem solving process may cause the process to look more like a benevolent form of arbitration where the parties circumstances are "objectively" analyzed and evaluated and a "best possible" solution suggested. |
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http://www.iamed.org/pub_benjamin3.cfm
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| | Mills abstracts |
| | Observations on the behavior of the polyps and medusae of P. | | | Knowledge about the ecology of both the medusa and the polyp phases of each life cycle are necessary if we are to understand the true causes of these increases and decreases, but in most cases where changes in medusa populations have been recognized, we know nothing about the field ecology of its polyp. | | | Lab experiments determined the responses of hydrozoan medusae to sudden changes of salinity in the range that might be encountered in nature. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/MillsAbstracts.html
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| | biology - Culture |
| | Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism. | | | Culture is dynamic and can be taught and learned, making it a potentially rapid form of adaptation to change in physical conditions. | | | Attentive to the theory of evolution, they assumed that all human beings are equally evolved, and that the fact that all humans have cultures must in some way be a result of human evolution. |
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http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Culture
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| | Kevin Baldeosingh - The biology of culture |
| | Evolutionary theory is an example of the latter; an example of the former is the widely-held belief that culture determines human nature. | | | Mead's conclusions were based on her studies of the Samoan islanders, whose nonchalant sexual habits, she claimed, made them satisfied and their society crime-free; and on the Tshambuli, who had reversed sex roles, with the men wearing make-up and curls and, she said, having gentle natures as a result. | | | culture - are mainly the result of ecology, geography and technology. |
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http://www.caribscape.com/baldeosingh/social/sober/2000/culture2.html
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| | National Association of Biology Teachers |
| | The most metaphorical analogies may require more critical thinking to identify how two things drawn from different domains may be said to be alike. | | | These criteria may be used to frame questions to assess a student's analysis of an effective analogy. | | | The thinker is enticed to decipher the meaning hidden in the puzzle-like analogy. |
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http://www.nabt.org/sup/publications/promote.asp
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| | mediation: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Others claim that mediation is a form of harms reduction or de-escalation, especially in its large-scale application in peace process and similar negotiation, or the bottom-up way it is performed in the peace movement where it is often called mindful mediation. | | | Where mediators are expected to be process experts only (i.e., having been employed to use their skills to work through the mediation process without offering evaluations as to the parties' claims) competence is usually demonstrated by the ability to remain neutral and to move parties though various impasse points in a dispute. | | | In the field to resolving legal controversies, mediation is an informal method of dispute resolution, in which a neutral third party, the mediator, attempts to assist the parties in finding resolution to their problem through the mediation process. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/mediation
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| | NIH Guide: ONTOGENY OF PERINATAL HOST DEFENSES |
| | The Developmental Biology, Genetics and Teratology Branch, and Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch of the CRMC are particularly interested in supporting basic studies on the ontogeny of perinatal host defenses and developmental and reproductive immunobiology. | | | Non-specific, natural or innate host defense mechanisms include physical and chemical barriers; humoral components (e.g., serum opsonins, complement factors, fibronectin, c-reactive proteins, and lactoferrin); natural killer (NK) cells; phagocytic cells (e.g., neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages); as well as soluble plasma and tissue proteins that amplify the action of phagocytes to become natural immune effector cells. | | | Of particular interest are applications studying the development of basic perinatal host defense mechanisms in humans and non-human primates. |
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http://grants.nih.gov/GRANTS/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-97-002.html
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| | Human Biology 121cx |
| | This is biology for non-biology majors: a general study of the basic concepts of biology including the human body and the human environment. | | | Hopefully, your experience with Human Biology will be rewarding and meaningful. | | | This course, when taken in conjunction with BIOL 223 (Laboratory Experiences in Biology), will meet the general education natural science requirements for the B. or B. degree at Fort Hays State and most other universities. |
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http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/ranpers/121cx/121cx.htm
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| | Human Biology [encyclopedia] |
| | According to mainstream biology, the closest living evolutionary relatives to humans are the two species of chimpanzee Pan troglodytes ("common chimp") and Pan paniscus ("pygmy chimp" or "Bonobo"), and to a lesser degree other hominoids such as orangutans and gorillas. | | | The body of humans is described in the human anatomy group of articles. | | | Various religious groups have raised objections and controversy concerning the theory of humanity's evolution from a common ancestor with the other hominoids. |
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http://www.kosmoi.com/Life/Biology/Human
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| | Biology Courses |
| | Designed for students majoring in biology who want to understand evolutionary concepts and their application to important questions in biology, with an emphasis on ecology. | | | Students will write, and be graded on, a report on their work experience that details the nature of the research, the nature of their contribution, and how the work term has changed their world-view of biology. | | | Biology faculty members offer a wide variety of senior undergraduate level courses using the Biology 4610 and 4630 (Biology Tutorial I and II) platform. |
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http://calendar.lakeheadu.ca/current/programs/Faculty_of_Science_&_Env_St/biolcrse.html
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| | Human Biology Program - Home Page |
| | Human Biology is an excellent degree for students planning to participate in professional health science programs such as chiropractic, dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, optometry, physical therapy, physicians assistant, pharmacy, podiatry and public health. | | | The Human Biology major represents an interdisciplinary liberal science degree and is appropriate for students who want a broad background in fields that comprise biological sciences and who want to understand the interrelationships among such fields. | | | To determine if your plans for directed study, internship, or research may meet the credit criteria, or for more information on these opportunities within the Human Biology program, please contact the Human Biology Internship Coordinator and NSC 495 instructor, Dr. Renate Snider, at |
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http://www.ns.msu.edu/human
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| | Species |
| | Species of asexual organisms do not form causally integrated entities: their organisms are merely connected to a common ancestor. | | | On this form of species pluralism, the tree of life is segmented by different processes into different types of species lineages. | | | Hull (1965) contends that species have vague boundaries and that such vagueness is incompatible with the existence of species specific essences. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species
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| | Human Biology, Interdisciplinary Program in |
| | The human biology major will prepare students for further post-graduate studies or careers in law, medicine, bioethics, public health, national and international health policy, the health evaluation sciences, and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. | | | While all courses applied to the major must be relevant to human biology, students are encouraged to take a wide range of courses to round out their studies. | | | The elucidation of evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century focused attention on the seminal questions of the origins of life and the human species, and had a profound influence on the way we view the development of society. |
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http://www.virginia.edu/registrar/records/ugradrec/chapter6/chapter6-26.htm
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| | Santiago Schnell's Research Interests |
| | Functionally, segmentation is critical to ensure the movements of a rod-like structure, such as the vertebral column. | | | In humans, segmentation is most obvious at the level of the vertebral column and its associated muscles, and also in the peripheral nervous system and limbs. | | | Both advocates and opponents of experimentation on human embryos appeal to scientific evidence (or to the scientific explanations that they presume to be correct). |
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http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/schnell/research/embryology.asp
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| | The Uniform Mediation Act: A Trojan Horse? |
| | The only way for mediation to avoid the same fate as arbitration is to recognize the risks of over-formalizing the process and to press for the preservation of some semblance of the core purposes of mediation. | | | This is about how the revolutionary notion of mediation, whereby individuals, organizations, and communities seize the opportunity to effectively manage and self-determine their own issues and conflicts, is now becoming absorbed by the legal system and the established order. | | | Mediation allows for a more systemic and thoughtful approach and gives individuals and communities more direct responsibility for the required problem solving. |
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http://www.mediate.com/ethics/ethicsforum2.cfm
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| | YG-CV |
| | Biology is uniquely challenging because it is a multi-disciplinary science. | | | The use of antibodies to detect NR protein in intact phytoplankton cells and to trace NR abundance in response to environmental shifts were explored. | | | As the major pathway by which marine phytoplankton acquires N from environment, nitrate assimilation was investigated by targeting a key component, nitrate reductase (NR), in the pathway. |
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http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/optics/people/alice.html
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