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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
An anaerobic bacterium with two strains that live in the intestines and others that cause infections to wounds and the urinary tract.
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Microscopic cylindrical roundworms living in water and soil. Can be parasitic (as with the trichina and the hookworm) or free-living.
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A substance that fosters cancer, an illness characterized by cells that cannot quit dividing in a kind of biological nation-statism.
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An organisms whose cells lack a nucleus. Roughly synonymous with bacteria, but divided into eubacteria and archaeans. See Eukaryote.
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A more or less permanent body of ice compacted from recrystallized snow that expands or contracts depending on gravity and climate.
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A period of summer or winter metabolic slowdown in animals, plants, or seeds that need to conserve energy in inhospitable seasons.
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A cell organelle, once a free bacterium, that holds chlorophyll. Symbiotic with mitochondria, as shown by biologist Lynn Margulis.
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Haikai Tane's term for a hypothesized evolution of ecosystems, some changing in response to human-caused planetary changes.
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Groups of cells that all originate from one cell. Merophytes build much of a plant, the leaves and stems in particular.
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The specialization of brain functions by hemisphere (language in the left lobe, pattern recognition in the right).
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