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  2. Exercise physiology - Wikipedia

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    Exercise physiology is the physiology of physical exercise. It is one of the allied health professions , and involves the study of the acute responses and chronic adaptations to exercise. Exercise physiologists are the highest qualified exercise professionals and utilise education, lifestyle intervention and specific forms of exercise to ...

  3. Kinaesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Kinaesthetics (or kinesthetics, in American English) is the study of body motion, and of the perception (both conscious and unconscious) of one's own body motions. [1] ...

  4. Kinesiology - Wikipedia

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    Kinesiology (from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis) 'movement' and -λογία-logía 'study of') is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical, biomechanical, pathological, neuropsychological principles and mechanisms of movement.

  5. Kinesis (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Woodlouse activity decreases as humidity increases.. Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus (such as gas exposure, light intensity or ambient temperature).

  6. Human biology - Wikipedia

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    Human biology is an interdisciplinary area of academic study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields such as genetics, evolution, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, nutrition, population genetics, and sociocultural influences.

  7. Physiology - Wikipedia

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    Physiology (/ ˌ f ɪ z i ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis) 'nature, origin' and -λογία () 'study of') [1] is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

  8. Comparative physiology - Wikipedia

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    physiology is more likely to be adaptive than DNA, and so subject to parallel and convergent evolution, which confuses phylogenetic reconstruction. 3. To elucidate how physiology mediates interactions between organisms and their environments. This is essentially physiological ecology or ecological physiology. 4.

  9. Outline of biology - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic biology – research integrating biology and engineering; construction of biological functions not found in nature. Botany – study of plants. Economic botany – study of relationship between people and plants, including the practical uses of plants; Ethnobotany – study of a region's plants and their usage by people