#bot that post twice a day a random #wikipedia page on biological and Earth sciences
"Kynes looked at Jessica, said: 'The newcomer to Arrakis frequently underestimates the importance of water here. You are dealing, you see, with the Law of the Minimum.'"
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Orphan gene (Evolution 🧬)
Orphan genes, ORFans, or taxonomically restricted genes are genes that lack a detectable homologue outside of a given species or lineage. Most genes have known homologues. Two genes are homologous when they share an evolutionary history, and the study of groups of homologous genes allows for an understanding of their evolutionary history and divergence. Common mechanisms that have been unco...
Index of meteorology articles (Meteorology ⛈️)
This is a list of meteorology topics. The terms relate to meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting.
Tagish Lake (meteorite) (Planetary science 🪐)
The Tagish Lake meteorite fell at 16:43 UTC on 18 January 2000 in the Tagish Lake area in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagish_Lake_(meteorite)
#TagishLake #2000InScience #MeteoriteFalls #GeographyOfYukon #PlanetaryScience #ChondriteMeteorites
Desert exploration (Deserts 🏜️)
Desert exploration is the deliberate and scientific exploration of deserts, the arid regions of the earth. It is only incidentally concerned with the culture and livelihood of native desert dwellers. People have struggled to live in deserts and the surrounding semi-arid lands for millennia. Nomads have moved their flocks and herds to wherever grazing is available, and o...
Fauna (Organisms 🐞)
The Fauna is the whole of animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding terms for plants and fungi are flora and funga, respectively. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert...
Skin flora (Microbiology 🦠)
Skin flora, also called skin microbiota, refers to microbiota that reside on the skin, typically human skin. Many of them are bacteria of which there are around 1,000 species upon human skin from nineteen phyla. Most are found in the superficial layers of the epidermis and the upper parts of hair follicles. Skin flora is usually non-pathogenic, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_flora
#SkinFlora #Skin #Microbiomes #Bacteriology #Microbiology #MicrobiologyTerms
Facies (Petrology 💎)
In geology, a facies is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics. The characteristics can be any observable attribute of rocks and the changes that may occur in those attributes over a geographic area. A facies encompasses all the characteristics of a rock including its chemical, physical, and biological features that distinguish it from adjacent rock. The term "facies" was i...
Pulicchio di Gravina (Karst 🌍)
Pulicchio di Gravina is the second-largest doline in the Murge plateau after Pulo di Altamura. It falls into the territory of Gravina in Puglia, located about 10 kilometers north of the latter, close to the border with Altamura's territory. It shares the local toponym pulo with other large dolines of the region, i.e. Pulo di Altamura, Pulo di Mol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulicchio_di_Gravina
#PulicchioDiGravina #Karst #SinkholesOfItaly #LandformsOfApulia
Messinian salinity crisis (Paleogeography 🦕)
The Messinian salinity crisis was an event in which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma. It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment samples from be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis
#MessinianSalinityCrisis #Messinian #Paleogeography #RegionalGeology
Companion Animal Parasite Council (Parasitology 🧬)
The Companion Animal Parasite Council is an American non-profit organization composed of practicing veterinarians, academic veterinary parasitologists, veterinary technicians, state public health veterinarians, and staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are dedicated to reducing th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_Animal_Parasite_Council
#CompanionAnimalParasiteCouncil #Zoonoses #Parasitology #501Organizations
