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| x Influenza |
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Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance |
Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals. The name influenza comes from the Italian influenza, meaning ...
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| x Bird |
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Cal/Ecotox |
Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the...
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| Bird Point Count Database | |||
| World Bird Database | |||
| Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer | |||
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| x Avian flu |
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Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance |
Avian influenza, sometimes avian flu, and commonly bird flu, refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds." Of greatest concern is highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
"Bird flu" is a phrase similar to "swine flu," "dog flu," "horse...
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| x Water | USGS National Water Information System |
Water has been important to all peoples of the earth, and it is rich in spiritual tradition.
Water is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science. It was commonly associated with the qualities of emotion and intuition....
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| x Management | Managed Areas Database |
Management in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an...
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| x Amphibian |
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Cal/Ecotox |
Amphibians (class Amphibia), such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians, are ectothermic (or cold-blooded) animals that metamorphose from a juvenile, water-breathing form to an adult, air-breathing form. Though amphibians typically...
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| x Reptile |
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Cal/Ecotox |
Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded amniotes that have skin covered in scales or scutes as opposed to hair or feathers. They are tetrapods (having or having descended from vertebrates with four limbs) and lay...
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| x Physiology |
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Cal/Ecotox |
Physiology (from Greek φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has traditionally been divided between plant physiology and animal and...
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| x Toxicology | Cal/Ecotox |
Toxicology (from the Greek words toxicos and logos) is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. It is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.
Mathieu...
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| Whole Wildlife Toxicology Catalog | |||
| x Mammal |
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Cal/Ecotox |
Mammals (formally Mammalia) are a class of vertebrate animals whose females are characterized by the possession of mammary glands while both males and females are characterized by sweat glands, hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a...
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| x Ecology |
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Cal/Ecotox |
Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, oikos, "house"; -λογία, -logia, "study of") is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and their interactions with their environment. The environment of an organism includes...
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| x Fish |
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Cal/Ecotox |
A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic (or cold-blooded), covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species being...
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| x Point count survey | Bird Point Count Database |
A method for sampling birds that typically involves one of more observers standing at a point in space marking observations of birds detected by sight and sound over a period of time. Detection times are often subdivided into 3, 5 and 10 minutes...
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| Avian Knowledge Network | |||
| North American Breeding Bird Survey database | |||
| x Important Bird Area | World Bird Database |
An Important Bird Area (IBA) is an area recognized as being globally important habitat for the conservation of bird populations. Currently there are about 10,000 IBAs worldwide. The program was developed by BirdLife International. In the United...
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| x Endemic Bird Area | World Bird Database | ||
| x Protected area |
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World Database on Protected Areas |
Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their environmental, cultural or similar value. The term protected area includes Marine Protected Areas, which refers to protected areas whose boundaries include some area of ocean. A...
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| x Breeding Bird Atlas | Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer |
Breeding Bird Atlases are population survey projects that are designed
to cover large areas using a grid-based system, and are generally organized at the state or provincial
level. Breeding evidence for each species is categorized as ...
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| South Carolina Breeding Bird Atlas | |||
| North Carolina Breeding Bird Atlas | |||
| Georgia Breeding Bird Atlas | |||
| x Ant |
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Global Ant Community Database |
Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae (pronounced /fɔrˈmɪsəˌdiː/), and along with the related wasps and bees, they belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130...
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| Hymenoptera Online Database | |||
| x Nutrition |
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USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference |
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet.
The diet of an...
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| x Food |
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USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference |
The food industry is the complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the...
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| x Photograph |
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Oriental Bird Club Image Database |
A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens...
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| x Bird ringing |
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Avian Knowledge Network |
Bird ringing (also known as bird banding) is an aid to studying wild birds, by attaching a small individually numbered metal or plastic ring to their legs or wings, so that various aspects of the bird's life can be studied by the ability to re-find...
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| x Citizen science | Avian Knowledge Network |
Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as...
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| x Worm-eating Warbler |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus) is a small New World warbler. It is the only species classified in the genus Helmitheros.
It is 13 cm long and weighs 13 g. It is relatively plain with olive-brown upperparts and light-coloured...
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| x Hooded Warbler |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Hooded Warbler, Wilsonia citrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America and across the eastern USA and into southernmost Canada, (Ontario). It is migratory, wintering in Central America and the West Indies. Hooded Warblers...
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| x Scarlet Tanager |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) is a medium-sized American songbird. Traditionally placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae) it is now thought to be much closer to cardinals (Cardinalidae). With their coloration, they somewhat remind of the...
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| x Acadian Flycatcher |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Acadian Flycatcher or Green-crested Flycatcher, Empidonax virescens, is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
Adults have olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring,...
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| x Golden-winged Warbler |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Golden-winged Warbler, Vermivora chrysoptera, is a New World warbler, 11.6 cm long and weighing 8.5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southeastern Canada and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, but in the south it is being...
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| x Yellow-breasted Chat |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird, formerly considered the most atypical member of the New World warbler family, though the long-standing suspicion is that it does not actually belong there. Its placement is not...
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| x Population growth |
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Global Populations Dynamics Database |
Population growth is the change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population using "per unit time" for measurement. The term population growth can technically refer to any species, but...
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| Long-Term Individual Based Time Series Database | |||
| x Literature |
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Raptor Information System |
Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In...
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| LitCentral: Land Bird Edition | |||
| x Bird of prey |
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Raptor Information System |
Birds of prey are birds that hunt for food primarily on the wing, using their keen senses, especially vision. Their talons and beaks tend to be relatively large, powerful and adapted for tearing and/or piercing flesh. In most cases, the females are...
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| x Jehovah's Witnesses |
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Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide Building Directory |
Jehovah's Witnesses is a restorationist, millenarian Christian denomination. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism; they report convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual Memorial...
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| x King Rail |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The King Rail, Rallus elegans, is a waterbird, the largest North American rail.
Distinct features are a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on the face and breast with a dark brown cap. They...
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| x Swainson's Warbler |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
Swainson's Warbler, Limnothlypis swainsonii, is a small species of New World warbler. It is monotypic, the only member of the genus Limnothlypis.
A small and rather non-descript species of New World warbler, Swainson's Warblers will grow to about 5...
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| x Clapper Rail |
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LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris) is a member of the rail family, Rallidae. It is found along the east coast of North America, the coasts and some islands of the Caribbean, and across northern South America to eastern Brazil. On the west coast,...
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| x Contaminants | Whole Wildlife Toxicology Catalog | ||
| x Animal |
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Whole Wildlife Toxicology Catalog |
Animals are a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most...
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| x Acid rain |
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Acid rain in the Northeastern United States |
Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the...
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| x Geodetic system |
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EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset |
Geodetic systems or geodetic data are used in geodesy, navigation, surveying by cartographers and satellite navigation systems to translate positions indicated on their products to their real position on earth.
The systems are needed because the...
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| x Geodesy |
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EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset |
Geodesy (pronounced /dʒiːˈɒdɪsi/), also called geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time...
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| x Geographic Information System |
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EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset |
A geographic information system (GIS), or geographical information system, captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that is linked to location. Technically, GIS is geographic information systems which includes mapping software and its...
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| x Bibliographic database | Google Scholar |
A bibliographic or library database is a database of bibliographic records. It may be a database containing information about books and other materials held in a library (e.g. an online library catalog, or OPAC) or, as the term is more often used,...
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| x Language |
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Moby Project |
A language is a system for encoding information. In its most common use, the term refers to so-called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. In linguistics the term is extended to refer to the human...
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| x English Language |
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WordNet |
English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and of the United...
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| x Lexicon |
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WordNet |
In linguistics, the lexicon (from the Greek: Λεξικόν) of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes.
The lexicon includes the lexemes used to actualize words. Lexemes are...
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| x Bird monitoring | Coordinated Bird Monitoring Database |
Bird monitoring involves repeated measurement of avian populations over brief or long periods of time, at local to international scales. Monitoring programs that measure covariates, variables expected to be associated with population change, can...
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| x Identification | Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter |
The function of identification is to map a known quantity to an unknown entity so as to make it known. The known quantity is called the identifier (or ID) and the unknown entity is what needs identification. A basic requirement for identification is...
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| x Life history | Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter |
The term life history has been given many meanings in several scientific fields. It can refer to a variety of methods and techniques that are used for conducting qualitative interviews, especially in the fields of sociology and anthropology.
In...
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| x Ornithology |
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Searchable Ornithological Research Archive |
Ornithology (from Greek: ὄρνις, ὄρνιθος, ornis, ornithos, "bird"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high...
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| x Bird conservation |
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Searchable Ornithological Research Archive |
Bird conservation is a field in the science of conservation biology related to threatened birds. Humans have had a profound effect on many bird species. Over one hundred species have gone extinct in historical times, although the most dramatic human...
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| LitCentral: Land Bird Edition | |||
| Bird Point Count Database | |||
| x Plant |
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PlantFiles |
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. About 350,000 species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns...
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| x Spider |
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BugFiles |
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing chelicerate arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae modified into fangs that inject venom. Spiders are found world-wide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly...
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| x Butterfly |
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BugFiles |
A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful...
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| x Insect |
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BugFiles |
Insects (Class Insecta) are arthropods, having a hard exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet and include...
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| x United Kingdom |
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Rural Land Register |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago...
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| United Kingdom National DNA Database | |||
| x Rural |
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Rural Land Register |
Rural areas (also referred to as "the country" or "the countryside") are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low population density. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities...
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| x Genetic fingerprinting |
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United Kingdom National DNA Database |
DNA profiling (also called DNA testing, DNA typing, or genetic fingerprinting) Identification of individuals on the basis of their respective DNA profiles. DNA profiles are basically just sets of numbers that can be used as a identifier. The number...
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| x DNA |
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United Kingdom National DNA Database |
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA...
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| x Taxonomy | Hymenoptera Online Database |
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word finds its roots in the Greek τάξις, taxis (meaning 'order', 'arrangement') and νόμος, nomos ('law' or 'science'). Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa (singular taxon).
In...
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