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  • 1Polymorphism (biology) — Light morph Jaguar (typical) Dark morph or melanistic Jaguar (about …

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  • 2Mimicry — For other uses, see Mimic (disambiguation). Plate from Henry Walter Bates (1862) illustrating Batesian mimicry between Dismorphia species (top row, third row) and various Ithomiini (Nymphalidae, second row, bottom row) In …

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  • 3Anoxic event — As early as 1911, major oceanic currents were well mapped and understood, albeit without today s understanding of how they affect regional and global climatological conditions …

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  • 4vomitov\ cocktail — A highly noxious combination of substances, ingested, partially digested, expelled in a highly forceful manner. (Quoted verbatim from some guy in the pub.) So after we went to this bloody Mexican restaurant we went to the local bar, I had three… …

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  • 5vomitov\ cocktail — A highly noxious combination of substances, ingested, partially digested, expelled in a highly forceful manner. (Quoted verbatim from some guy in the pub.) So after we went to this bloody Mexican restaurant we went to the local bar, I had three… …

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  • 6virulent — a. 1. Poisonous, venomous, malignant, highly noxious. 2. Malignant, acrimonious, bitter …

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  • 7nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction       system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …

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  • 8mimicry — /mim ik ree/, n., pl. mimicries. 1. the act, practice, or art of mimicking. 2. Biol. the close external resemblance of an organism, the mimic, to some different organism, the model, such that the mimic benefits from the mistaken identity, as… …

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  • 9animal behaviour — Introduction       any activity of an intact organism.       A living animal behaves constantly in order to survive, and all animals must solve the same basic problems. They must, for instance, periodically replace their energy source (consume… …

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  • 10petroleum refining — Introduction  conversion of crude oil into useful products. History Distillation of kerosene and naphtha       The refining of crude petroleum owes its origin to the successful drilling of the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859. Prior to… …

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