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  2. Model organism - Wikipedia

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    Model organism. Escherichia coli is a gram-negative prokaryotic model organism. Drosophila melanogaster, one of the most famous subjects for genetics experiments. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, one of the most intensively studied eukaryotic model organisms in molecular and cell biology. A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively ...

  3. Paramecium - Wikipedia

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    The Paramecium spirals through the water as it progresses. When it happens to encounter an obstacle, the "effective stroke" of its cilia is reversed and the organism swims backward for a brief time, before resuming its forward progress. This is called the avoidance reaction. If it runs into the solid object again, it repeats this process, until ...

  4. Green algae - Wikipedia

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    Green algae are often classified with their embryophyte descendants in the green plant clade Viridiplantae (or Chlorobionta). Viridiplantae, together with red algae and glaucophyte algae, form the supergroup Primoplantae, also known as Archaeplastida or Plantae sensu lato. The ancestral green alga was a unicellular flagellate.

  5. List of model organisms - Wikipedia

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    Ashbya gossypii, cotton pathogen, subject of genetics studies (polarity, cell cycle). Aspergillus nidulans, mold subject of genetics studies. Coprinus cinereus, mushroom (genetic studies of mushroom development, genetic studies of meiosis). [6] Cryptococcus neoformans, opportunistic human pathogen.

  6. Osmoregulation - Wikipedia

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    Osmoregulation is the active regulation of the osmotic pressure of an organism's body fluids, detected by osmoreceptors, to maintain the homeostasis of the organism's water content; that is, it maintains the fluid balance and the concentration of electrolytes (salts in solution which in this case is represented by body fluid) to keep the body fluids from becoming too diluted or concentrated.

  7. Bacillus subtilis - Wikipedia

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    Bacillus subtilis is a model organism used to study bacterial chromosome replication. Replication of the single circular chromosome initiates at a single locus, the origin (oriC). Replication proceeds bidirectionally and two replication forks progress in clockwise and counterclockwise directions along the chromosome.

  8. Water cycle - Wikipedia

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    The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle), is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. The mass of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time. However, the partitioning of the water into the major reservoirs of ice, fresh water, salt water and ...

  9. Euglena - Wikipedia

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    Euglena is a genus of single cell flagellate eukaryotes. It is the best known and most widely studied member of the class Euglenoidea, a diverse group containing some 54 genera and at least 200 species. [1][2] Species of Euglena are found in fresh water and salt water. They are often abundant in quiet inland waters where they may bloom in ...