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  2. Biotic - Wikipedia

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    Biotics describe living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals and plants. Biotic may refer to: . Life, the condition of living organisms

  3. Ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by organisms in interaction with their environment. [2]: 458 The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows.

  4. Biotic stress - Wikipedia

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    Biotic stress is stress that occurs as a result of damage done to an organism by other living organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, beneficial and harmful insects, weeds, and cultivated or native plants. [1]

  5. Conservation biology - Wikipedia

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    Efforts are made to preserve the natural characteristics of Hopetoun Falls, Australia, without affecting visitors' access.. The term conservation biology and its conception as a new field originated with the convening of "The First International Conference on Research in Conservation Biology" held at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California, in 1978 led by American ...

  6. Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia

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    A circadian rhythm (/ s ər ˈ k eɪ d i ə n /), or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.Circadian rhythms can refer to any process that originates within an organism (i.e., endogenous) and responds to the environment (is entrained by the environment).

  7. Three prime untranslated region - Wikipedia

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    The 3′-UTR of mRNA has a great variety of regulatory functions that are controlled by the physical characteristics of the region. One such characteristic is the length of the 3′-UTR, which in the mammalian genome has considerable variation.

  8. Heap leaching - Wikipedia

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    Gold heap leaching. Heap leaching is an industrial mining process used to extract precious metals, copper, uranium, and other compounds from ore using a series of chemical reactions that absorb specific minerals and re-separate them after their division from other earth materials.

  9. Component - Wikipedia

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    Color model, a way of describing how colors can be represented, typically as multiple values or color components; Component (group theory), a quasi-simple subnormal sub-group