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61Evolution — The continuing process of change, especially in reference to natural selection. Charles Darwin (1809 82) noted that successful species produce more offspring in each generation than are needed to replace the adults who die. Not all offspring… …
62allophenic — Pertaining to an animal produced by combining blastomeres of different genotypes ( i.e., from different pairs of parents). SEE ALSO: mosaic. [allo + G. phaino, to appear, + ic] * * * al·lo·phen·ic .al ə fen ik adj produced from a mosaic cellular… …
63compliance — 1. A measure of the distensibility of a chamber expressed as a change in volume per unit change in pressure. 2. The consistency and accuracy with which a patient follows the regimen prescribed by a …
64equivalent — 1. Equal in any respect. 2. That which is equal in size, weight, force, or any other quality to something else. 3. Having the capability to counterbalance or neutralize each other. 4. Having equal valencies. 5. SYN: gram e.. [see equivalence]… …
65error — 1. A defect in structure or function. 2. In biostatistics : 1) a mistaken decision, as in hypothesis testing or classification by a discriminant function; 2) the difference between the true value and the observed …
66series — 1. A succession of similar objects following one another in space or time. 2. In chemistry, a group of substances, either elements or compounds, having similar properties or differing from each other in composition by a constant ratio. [L. fr.… …
67Commando Delta — The Commando Delta organizations were assassination teams under the control of the Organisation armés secrète (OAS) in Algeria during the early 1960s. The teams interdicted European neighborhoods by assassinating Muslims who entered. The… …
68Museo dell'olivo e dell'olio — The Museo dell olivo e dell olio (Olive and oil Museum) is a private museum located in Torgiano (Umbria, Italy) specialized in olive oil and olive culture and knowledge. Its premises are in an ancient oil mill, which worked till the 1960s. Its… …
69explicable — I adjective accountable, apprehensible, ascribable, cognizable, coherent, comprehensible, conceivable, constructable, deducible, determinable, discoverable, easily understood, explainable, fathomable, intelligible, interpretable, knowable,… …
70Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …
