Detechnicalise Flashcards

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Photosynthesis

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Etymology - photo = light, synthesis = make

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce glucose from carbon dioxide and water.

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Cytokinesis

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Cell division, which divides the cytoplasm of a parental cell into two daughter cells.

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Polysaccharide

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Etymology - poly = many, saccharide = sugar

e.g. Starch

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Vaccine

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A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing micro-organism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins.

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Immunity

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The ability to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies. Vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection - but this “imitation” infection does not cause illness.

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Visible spectrum

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Hormone

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Electricity

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Evolution

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Cloning

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Vaccination

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12
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Fermentation

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13
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Erosion

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14
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DNA

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15
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Osmosis

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16
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Mutation

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17
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Resistace

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18
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Skewed distribution

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Normal Distribution

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Momentum

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21
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Chromosome

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22
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Gravity

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