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  2. Biology - Wikipedia

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    Development is the process by which a multicellular organism (plant or animal) goes through a series of changes, starting from a single cell, and taking on various forms that are characteristic of its life cycle. [82] There are four key processes that underlie development: Determination, differentiation, morphogenesis, and growth. Determination ...

  3. Europe - Wikipedia

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    Important figures of the Scientific Revolution during the 16th and 17th centuries included Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Isaac Newton. [161] According to Peter Barrett, "It is widely accepted that 'modern science' arose in the Europe of the 17th century (towards the end of the Renaissance), introducing a new understanding of the natural world."

  4. Human - Wikipedia

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    Largely focusing on the development of the human mind through the life span, developmental psychology seeks to understand how people come to perceive, understand, and act within the world and how these processes change as they age. [321] [322] This may focus on intellectual, cognitive, neural, social, or moral development.

  5. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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    The advantages of a design with software powerful enough to support advanced applications and a large capacitive touchscreen affected the development of another smartphone OS platform, Android, with a more BlackBerry-like prototype device scrapped in favor of a touchscreen device with a slide-out physical keyboard, as Google's engineers thought ...

  6. Tiger - Wikipedia

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    The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia.It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes.

  7. Cancer - Wikipedia

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    Another common example is the class of Bcr-Abl inhibitors, which are used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). [4] Currently, targeted therapies exist for many of the most common cancer types, including bladder cancer , breast cancer, colorectal cancer , kidney cancer , leukemia , liver cancer , lung cancer, lymphoma , pancreatic cancer ...

  8. World Health Organization - Wikipedia

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    [5] The main functions of the World Health Organization include promoting the control of epidemic and endemic diseases; providing and improving the teaching and training in public health, the medical treatment of disease, and related matters; and promoting the establishment of international standards for biological products.