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Synapse

...nd therefore decreasing the neuron's likelihood to fire an action potential. In this way the output of a neuron may depend on the input of many others, each of which may have a different degree of influence, depending on the strength of its synapse with that neuron. John Carew Eccles performed some of ...

Life

...cording to the above definition, one could say: fire is alive. (This could be remedied by adding the r...f their species.) Note also that the two cases of fire and stars fitting the definition of life can be simply remedied by defining metabolism in a more bio...

Lifeform

...m has made use of other forms of energy such as fire and tools which are used for the utilization of mechanical energy . This utilization of additional forms of energy has allowed humans to reduce the time required for subsistence , thus providing time for creative behavior....

Cryptozoology

...rds Moa Thunderbird Dodo Phoenix or " fire bird " Plants Carnivorous trees Others Anano Ikal Mapinguary Mermecolion Naree Pons Rod Squonk Yppotryl General terms for cryptids New Jersey Vegetable Monster UMA There are also some areas of cryptozoolog...

Charles Darwin

...that miracles were irrational, drawing much of the fire away from Darwin. The most famous confrontation took place at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford . Professor John William Draper made a boring speech on Darwin and social progress, then 'Soapy Sam' Wi...

Aseptic technique in microbiology

...is to be transferred, an innoculating loop , and a fire source, all on a clean, preferably microbe-free surface with some overhead protection from airborne microbes. The person would start the fire, and move the end of the innoculating loop, in a slow back-and-forth motion , through the top of the b...

Alfred Russel Wallace

... his collection was destroyed when his ship caught fire and sank while returning to Britain in 1852 . From 1854 to 1862 , he travelled through the Malay Archipelago or East Indies (now Malaysia and Indonesia ), to collect specimens and study nature. His observations of the marked zoological di...