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  2. Global biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    A May 2016 study based on scaling laws estimated that 1 trillion species (overwhelmingly microbes) are on Earth currently with only one-thousandth of one percent described, [28] [29] though this has been controversial and a 2019 study of varied environmental samples of 16S ribosomal RNA estimated that there exist 0.8-1.6 million species of ...

  3. Lists of organisms by population - Wikipedia

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    More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]

  4. DNA - Wikipedia

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    Their existence could be seen as an indication that there is nothing special about the four natural nucleobases that evolved on Earth. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] On the other hand, DNA is tightly related to RNA which does not only act as a transcript of DNA but also performs as molecular machines many tasks in cells.

  5. Nucleophile - Wikipedia

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    Many schemes attempting to quantify relative nucleophilic strength have been devised. The following empirical data have been obtained by measuring reaction rates for many reactions involving many nucleophiles and electrophiles. Nucleophiles displaying the so-called alpha effect are usually omitted in this type of treatment. [citation needed]

  6. Domain (biology) - Wikipedia

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    There is a great deal of diversity in the domain Bacteria. That diversity is further confounded by the exchange of genes between different bacterial lineages. The occurrence of duplicate genes between otherwise distantly-related bacteria makes it nearly impossible to distinguish bacterial species, count the bacterial species on the Earth, or ...

  7. Minimum viable population - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] When inbreeding effects are included, estimates of MVP for many species are in the thousands. Based on a meta-analysis of reported values in the literature for many species, Traill et al. reported concerning vertebrates "a cross-species frequency distribution of MVP with a median of 4169 individuals (95% CI = 3577–5129)."

  8. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [4] with about 1.2 million or 14% documented, the rest not yet described. [5] However, a 2016 report estimates an additional 1 trillion microbial species, with only 0.001% described. [6]

  9. Nucleophilic substitution - Wikipedia

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    They proposed that there were two main mechanisms at work, both of them competing with each other. The two main mechanisms were the S N 1 reaction and the S N 2 reaction , where S stands for substitution, N stands for nucleophilic, and the number represents the kinetic order of the reaction.