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Branch

(Science: plant biology) 1 a natural division of the stem of a large woody plant, especially a stem growing from the trunk or another stem of a tree or from the main or a secondary stem of a shrub.

2 a division or part of a system, subject etc. Botany is a branch of biology.


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Biology at the university

... old student from Norway (been in the army and such), ever since I was 8 years old I knew that I wanted to study Biology but I didn't know which branch to choose from. Now I have less than a year to make a choice and it seems like it is one of the scariest ones that I've had to make in my entire ...

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by Chrism
Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:46 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Biology at the university
Replies: 3
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... breed. I changed the first paragrph to read: Speciation Speciation is a process that causes enough change in genotype or phenotype that they branch off from the lineage they once were to become a new "subspecies" and with sufficient change become a new "species". In farming ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:51 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16283

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... Theory Of Intelligent Design Speciation Speciation is a process that causes enough change in genotype or phenotype that they branch off from the lineage they once were to become a new "subspecies" that with further change becomes a new "species". In farming ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:00 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16283

Re:

... common in our morphology. Chains with more than three Carbon atoms can form many different structural isomers to make rings, cubes, triangles or branch off. These "isomers" have similar (but not exact for example branched design more easily burned) chemical properties as the straight-chain ...

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by GaryGaulin
Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:58 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Intelligent Design?
Replies: 27
Views: 2318

Any ideas?

Hello Im new to this site, i'd just would like to know what branch of biology would be great to study. Also could someone give me some good links for studying.

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by BioSciLife4
Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:26 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Any ideas?
Replies: 1
Views: 208
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