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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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50 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
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The tiger is just one of thousands of animals -- including the ground iguana, the white-rumped vulture, and the partula snail -- currently in danger of becoming extinct, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless others we will never see again.
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Un livre pratique pour comprendre le rle des hormones chez les végétaux.
La biologie de papy est un petit livre accessible à tous, qui relate les travaux réalisés entre 1965 et 1971 dans un laboratoire de l'INRA en vue de vérifier une hypothèse concernant le mode d'action des principales hormones végétales... Une hypothèse qui, si elle se vérifiait, devait permettre de mieux comprendre, non seulement le mode d'action des hormones en question,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Fish are some of the weirdest animals on Earth. Some can walk as well as swim. Others have body parts that have helped them adapt to the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean. And then there are the many amazing kinds of sharks! This book contains the most bizarre adaptations fish can have-and includes up-close, full-color photographs for readers to ogle. This framework provides a way fun way to introduce why and how adaptations happen, as well as other...
87) Physiology
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A Physiology Study Guide can help a student in various ways. Basically this study guide highlights what a student needs to know and puts the knowledge in easily understood terms. These guides are easy to use, easy to read and help you with your Physiology coursework. This Physiology study guide will make your Physiology class go better and make complex terms more easily understood and relevant. In addition, a Physiology Study Guide is affordable and...
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A Urogenital System Reference Guide provides lateral & anterior views and explanations of the female and male anatomy, with attention to the genitourinary and reproductive systems. It includes details and illustrations of nephrons, renal corpuscles, the bladder and kidneys, and also has a description of the development of the system in a developing embryo. The guide explains the workings of supporting structures and processes of the urinary tract,...
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Six years after Charles Darwin announced his theory of evolution to the world, Gregor Mendel began studying the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel's research led to his discovery of dominant and recessive traits and other facts of evolution, which he reported in his groundbreaking 1865 paper, Experiments in Plant Hybridization. His findings languished until 1902, when William Bateson revived interest in the subject with this book, a succinct...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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There's a good reason why the thorny devil has a "false head" on its shoulders. It's an adaptation that developed to help protect the thorny devil when the reptile feels threatened. Most adaptations have a good explanation-but that doesn't make some of them any less odd! From snakes shedding their skin a few times a year to the almost unbreakable shells of reptile eggs, reptile adaptations are made even more fascinating in this book through full-color,...
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The subject of age has ever been one which has attracted human thought. It leads us so near to the great mysteries that all thinkers have contemplated it, and many are the writers who from the literary point of view have presented us, sometimes with profound thought, often with beautiful images connected with the change from youth to old age. We need but to think of two books familiar more or less to us all, that ancient classic, Cicero's De Senectute,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"Howard is sure that he is a very exceptional gecko. After all, he's the only camouflaged creature in the rain forest--or so he assumes. But Howard doesn't always notice other animals, especially those who can also hide in plain sight. When he learns that there are other camouflaged creatures, he doesn't feel so special anymore. Is Howard... average? And if so, who will love a completely unexceptional gecko like Howard?" --
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Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable...
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By the nationally best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse investigates the ultimate evolutionary crisis: a man-free future. How is it possible that the Y chromosome, which separated the sexes and allowed humans to rise to the apex of the animal kingdom, also threatens to destroy sexual reproduction altogether? Bryan Sykes confronts recent advances in evolutionary theory to find the answers to the questions that inexorably follow:...
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Organisms are classified into two main groups - single-celled or multicellular. In this book, you will learn the difference of these two groups of organisms. You will also go over examples of single-celled and multicellular organisms. Complex organisms are composed of different cells that perform different functions. What are these functions? What are examples of complex organisms? Learn more by reading.
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STOP MORGELLONS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY and GEOENGINEERING!
This book identifies the plot against renewables as being due to climate engineering which the author believes IS causing climate change
In the aerosols are nano-tech and Morgellons components which are bio-synthetic symbionts (animals, seeds, and plants, fungi etc.) which are now able to incubate in our skin! Our physiology - their mad experiment! And more!
Get this out, out, out! As far as...
98) Inside the Human Body: Characteristics of Cells Science Literacy Grade 5 Children's Biology Books
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Let's go microscopic inside your body! In this book, you will be learning about the characteristics of the cell, which is the basic unit of life. Learn to identify the structure as well as function of the different cell parts like the cell membrane, cytoplasm, mitochondria and ribosomes. Realize that healthy cells are key to a healthy you.
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Sphagnum mosses are small plants of the division of Bryophyta that are widespread and abundant in peatlands and several other types of wetlands. About sixty species of Sphagnum mosses are known for the territories of Quebec, Labrador and the Maritimes (with the exception of the island of Newfoundland). However, it can be laborious to identify these plants to the species taxonomic level. This book provides a unique dichotomous key for a visual identification...
100) Most Accomplished Cell Biologists in History Cellular Biology Book Grade 5 Children's Science E
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A whole new world was opened to scientists when the microscope was invented in the late 1500s. As a result, cell biologists were able to study the tiniest particles known to man. In this book, you are going to read about some of the most accomplished cell biologists in history. Get to know Robert Hooke, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, and Ernest Just. Grab a copy and start reading today.
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