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Linnaeus
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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus , 1707-78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the originator of modern scientific classification of plants and animals. He studied botany and medicine and taught both at Uppsala. In Systema naturae (1735) he... Read more |
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Systematics
Systematics In its broadest sense, systematics is where nomenclature and taxonomy intersect. Nomenclature is the assignment of accurate names to taxa. A single group is called a taxon; multiple groups are called taxa; the study of taxa is called taxonomy. Taxonomy refers to the scientific method of... Read more |
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Molecular systematics
Molecular Systematics Molecular systematics is the use of molecular geneticsto study the evolution of relationships among individuals and species. The goal of systematic studies is to provide insight into the history of groups of organisms and the evolutionary ... Read more |
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Metazoan
Metazoan In the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae(1758), Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus developed a biological classification system (now known as the Linnaean System) that placed all organisms into seven hierarchical groupings. He suggested that all... Read more |
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History of Ecology
Ecology, History of Ecology descended from a tradition of natural history beginning in antiquity. What has been called protoecologyis seen in the writings of Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, who, in the eighteenth century, wrote of interactions of plants and... Read more |
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Kingdom
Kingdom Kingdom is the highest category in the hierarchical classification of organisms created by Carolus Linnaeus around 1750. Linnaeus recognized two kingdoms, plants and animals, a scheme that worked reasonably well for large multicellular organisms but failed as ... Read more |
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Uppsala
Uppsala , city (1990 pop. 109,500), capital of Uppsala co., E Sweden, on the Fyrisån River. It is an industrial and cultural center and a railroad junction. Manufactures include machinery, printed materials, processed food, clothing, pharmaceuticals, and footwear. The city developed near Gamla... Read more |
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dahlia
dahlia [for Anders Dahl, 1751-89, Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnaeus ], any plant of the genus Dahlia of the family Asteraceae ( aster family), tuberous-rooted perennials native to Mexico and Guatemala and widely cultivated in gardens. Most of the several thousand horticultural varieties... Read more |
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Herpetology
HERPETOLOGY HERPETOLOGY. Contributions to the study of American reptiles prior to 1800 were made primarily by European travelers. Notable among the earliest contributors were the Englishman Mark Catesby and the Philadelphian William Bartram, who traveled throughout the southeastern United States... Read more |
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CLASSICAL COMPOUND
...an ad-hoc system that has its own fossils; it is as likely to mark ignorance as knowledge and to express subjective as objective comment. Linnaeus classified nonflowering plants as Cryptogamia (hidden marriage), because he did not know how... |
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Earth structure
...about it has had to be deduced from our knowledge of the rocks accessible to us and from...particularly in computer technology, our knowledge of the details of the fine structure and workings of the Earth...both. Crustal rocks can thus be broadly classified as igneous, ... |
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phallic symbol
...consciously or unconsciously, in women. Nor will anyone with a knowledge of anatomy be bewildered by the fact that it is possible...to Freud, unquestionably phallic but could not be easily classified into a group were hats, overcoats, neckties (‘which... |
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dissection
...in Bologna made any significant contribution to anatomical knowledge.The next milestone in the history of dissection occurred in...human body’). This was an exhaustive and systematically classified compendium of anatomical observations, sumptuously illustrated... |
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secrecy
...overlapping (but not identical) group handled material, classified as BIGOT, which included details of NEPTUNE, the assault phase of...locked box by a US Marine officer, who had no key to it and no knowledge of its contents. He visited each of eight key-carriers... |
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Drama Criticism in America
...19th century were published as much for the convenience of classified advertisers as they were for the dissemination of other news, so...into final maturity by broadening the scope of interest and knowledge required of critics, sharpening their reasoning and writing... |
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Dhuʾl-Nūn al-Misrī
...became a leading authority on maʿrifa (knowledge of inner truth) and was considered to be...of the Sūfīs of his time. Dhuʾl Nun classified knowledge into three categories; (i) the knowledge of religious commands and observances... |
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prajñā
...wisdom’ but closer in meaning to insight, discriminating knowledge, or intuitive apprehension. It is the faculty which apprehends the truth of Buddhist teachings. In the Abhidharma it is classified as one of the mental functions (caitta), and is defined... |
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vocabularies of motive
...They have explored the sources of motivational statements, classified their different varieties, and examined the consequences of their acceptance...theory, symbolic interactionism, and the sociologies of knowledge and language (all of which are treated separately elsewhere... |
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Service Economy, The
...With the decline of heavy engineering and the rise of the knowledge‐based economy, the service industries make up an ever...nearly all developed countries.Essentially, services can be classified into three categories: • Services to trade include banking... |
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secret
...adjective 1. a secret plan synonyms: confidential, top secret, classified, undisclosed, unknown, private, under wraps; informal...implying that something is being concealed or kept from the knowledge of others (a secret pact; a secret passageway). Covert... |
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ADSPK: Cntry kit., FDR, 3BR, 2BA, W/DD, Alrm, C/V, Grdn & Rfdk, $495,000...
According to the newspaper's classified listing, the Belmont home, with...looking for a home by scanning the classified section has become more interesting...Still, brokers admit that some classified language has become encoded and... |
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Riady: 'To the best of my knowledge' Huang did not send Lippo classified U.S....
...story). We have never sought classified United States Government intlligence...passed any information that was classified by the United States Government...Huang] that I was told was classified, or that I believed to be...intelligance, and to the best of my ... |
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Types of language disorders in students classified as ED: prevalence and...
...school students (N = 152) classified as Emotional Disturbance...Our knowledge about language deficits in...specific characteristics. Such knowledge can guide a teacher to more...and language deficits? Such knowledge could alert teachers of students... |
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Probe of Intercepted Messages Focuses on Shelby; Justice Department...
...investigation into the leak of classified intercepted messages is focusing...ever knowingly compromised classified information. "To my knowledge, the same can be said about...quoted phrases contained in two classified NSA intercepts from Sept... |
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Former Member of U.S. Navy Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for...
...Federal Prison for Disclosing Classified Information(C)1994-2009...for disclosing previously classified information relating to the...This defendant provided classified information to others with...information, including advance knowledge of the battle ... |
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Former Member of U.S. Navy Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for...
...for disclosing previously classified information relating to the...This defendant provided classified information to others with...Cole, Abu- Jihaad provided classified information regarding the...information, including advance knowledge of the battle ... |
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Quest for knowledge
...theories, concepts, discoveries and collected wisdom of the human race. Man has classified knowledge in many ways. There is revealed knowledge and acquired knowledge, cumulative and non-cumulative knowledge. There is ... |
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The Implications of the Formation of Local Networks in the Global Online...
...management within a firm, his matrix of knowledge is useful to explain how knowledge is situated and interacted on the Web, a virtual organization. Spender classified knowledge according to individual/social and explicit... |
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Knight Ridder Digital Promotes Lem Lloyd to VP of Classified Advertising.
...Lloyd to vice president, classified advertising and Knight Ridder corporate director of classified advertising. Formerly the senior director of classifieds for KRD, Lloyd succeeds...driving Knight Ridder's classified initiatives in both print...advertising ... |
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Vertical partial laryngectomy versus supracricoid partial laryngectomy for...
...carcinoma of the true vocal cord classified as T2N0 and a minimum of...carcinoma of the true vocal cord classified as T2N0.'-9 After the...carcinoma of the true vocal cord classified as T2N0. However, to our knowledge, no report has yet compared... |
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