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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
Proteins produced in response to environmental stress. Some of them ward off the hypothermia brought by extreme cold, for example.
Industry:Biology
A cell organelle, once a free bacterium, that holds chlorophyll. Symbiotic with mitochondria, as shown by biologist Lynn Margulis.
Industry:Biology
The deep population crash when an environment can no longer support a population's demands. Usually leads to dieoff (extinction).
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Prevailing natural conditions studied and recorded outside rather than indoors under microscopes or other controlled conditions.
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The surface of the oceanic crust 5,000 to 7,000 meters below the ocean surface. Ocean basins take up 30% of the Earth's surface.
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A severe thunderstorm with a steep, rotating updraft (see Mesocyclone). Supercells are likely candidates for producing tornados.
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Those structural details of an organism visible only to an electron microscope.
Industry:Biology
A flower's capacity for producing both megaspores (female spores) and microspores (male spores). Most flowers are bisporangiate.
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When birds of the same group of eggs hatch at different times because the mother incubated some before laying the entire clutch.
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Before slaughter. The animal examination USDA meat inspectors conduct shortly before they are butchered (the animals, that is).
Industry:Biology
