abundant species, and rich genetic variety. As one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, China has a profound understanding of biodiversity, as manifest in traditional Chinese culture and these aphorisms:“Man is an int...
Narrator: Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class. 旁白:请听一段生物学讲座。 Processor: Ok. 教授:好的。 There are two major types of classifiers in the world, people we call lumpers and people we call splitters. 在世界上有两种分类者,一种被我们称为统合派的人,一种被我们称为分...
Eighty-two percent of them went through a redesign in the last three years. However, most of these redesign efforts fail—only 23 percent were implemented successfully.3,” , June 2015. The new paradigm: Organizations as living organisms The trends described above are dramatically changing how ...
How organisms adapt to environmental conditions and how this process promotes speciation is a key question in evolutionary biology and speciation research. Ecologically based selection promotes adaptive divergence between populations, which may lead to the evolution of reproductive isolation and, ultimately,...
Water retention curves of biofilm-affected soils using xanthan as an analogue. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 76, 61–69 (2012). ADS CAS Google Scholar Chenu, C. Clay- or sand-polysaccharide associations as models for the interface between micro-organisms and soil: water related properties and ...
The eye is susceptible to infections caused by a bewildering spectrum of organisms, from prions [1] to arthropods [2] (Table1). Pathology may be restricted to the ocular tissues, or manifest in the eye as part of a systemic infectious disease, with impact ranging from minor nuisance to sig...
9. B) The growth of their new brain cells doubled. 10. A) To avoid them in the future. 11. C) Make people more susceptible to illness. 12.D) Spending too much time handling email. 13.D) Major problems may result. 14.B) Motivate and inspire their...
e.g. A flock of birds was already warbling a cheerful morning chorus. 一群鸟儿在叽叽喳喳地唱着欢快的晨曲。 ③swarm(蜂、人)群 e.g. A swarm of bees are following the queen-bee to find a suitable place to establish a new home. 一群蜜蜂跟着蜂王寻找合适的地方建立新家。 ④brood一窝(鸡...
Every living and non-living thing on Earth falls under one of these two main spheres which are the Earth’s geosphere and biosphere. As with the four system organization, the biosphere represents all of the Earth’s living organisms.
This is similar to the phenomenon of entropy increase67 in physics -- Political parties are like living organisms, which without internal innovation or external intervention, will have diminishing functions and declining efficiency due to continuous entropy increase, and eventually become chaotic until ...