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  • that kind of thing". The contrary view—non-essentialism—denies the need to posit such an "essence". Essentialism has been controversial from its beginning...
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    An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological...
    127 KB (13,086 words) - 00:04, 1 August 2024
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    Extinction (redirect from Species loss)
    last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult...
    105 KB (11,165 words) - 05:54, 16 July 2024
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    On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle...
    164 KB (18,763 words) - 22:18, 16 June 2024
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    hierarchy. A common system of biological classification (taxonomy) consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and domain. While older...
    42 KB (3,991 words) - 19:22, 21 July 2024
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    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving...
    152 KB (17,750 words) - 05:47, 1 August 2024
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    however, there are hundreds of species of eucalyptus, and perhaps some dozens are used to various extents as sources of essential oils. Not only do the products...
    54 KB (4,636 words) - 08:21, 1 July 2024
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    introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a...
    53 KB (5,848 words) - 01:28, 29 April 2024
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    Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival....
    104 KB (10,079 words) - 04:43, 7 July 2024
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    Holocene extinction (category Species made extinct by human activities)
    consistently preys on the adults of other apex predators, takes over other species' essential habitats and displaces them, and has worldwide effects on food webs...
    265 KB (25,465 words) - 01:18, 31 July 2024
  • Species II is a 1998 American science fiction horror thriller film directed by Peter Medak. The film is a sequel to Species (1995) and the second installment...
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    a constituent of several plant species' essential oils. Elemicin is a constituent of the oleoresin and the essential oil of Canarium luzonicum (also...
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  • Nutrient (redirect from Essential nutrient)
    of organisms have different essential nutrients. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is essential to humans and some animal species but most other animals and many...
    40 KB (4,010 words) - 13:02, 17 July 2024
  • contingency. Non-essentialism argues that every property is an accident. Modal necessitarianism argues that all properties are essential and no property...
    7 KB (851 words) - 03:44, 21 May 2024
  • systems biology analysis, an essential gene database has been developed by Kong et al. (2019) for predicting > 4000 bacterial species. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae...
    79 KB (8,521 words) - 03:43, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Susan Gelman
    Her book The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought is an influential work on cognitive development and essentialism that has been...
    16 KB (1,292 words) - 22:02, 25 July 2024
  • Naturalisation (or naturalization) is the ecological phenomenon through which a species, taxon, or population of exotic (as opposed to native) origin integrates...
    11 KB (1,257 words) - 14:39, 9 May 2024
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    Composition of the Essential Oils of Alpinia and Hedychium SpeciesEssential Oils of Fijian Plants, Part 1". Journal of Essential Oil Research. 14 (6):...
    18 KB (1,560 words) - 15:57, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reactive oxygen species
    In chemistry and biology, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive chemicals formed from diatomic oxygen (O2), water, and hydrogen peroxide....
    73 KB (8,482 words) - 12:21, 12 July 2024
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    Cymbopogon nardus (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    is an invasive species that renders pastureland useless, since cattle will starve even in its abundance. It is the source of an essential oil known as citronella...
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