Encyclopedia - Cycle: Encyclopedia Ii - Cycle - Science
Cycle - Astronomy. The eclipse cycle and the Saros cycle. The solar cycle related to sunspots. The full moon cycle. The Metonic cycl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance & Human height Humans exhi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Domesticated Animals: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Domesticated Animals - Socio-economical Uses
The body and natural produce, as well as the labour and senses of various animals have been made useful for a wide variety of human activ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alien Film: Encyclopedia - Alien Film
The science fiction/horror film Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, has become extremely popular and influential, and has spawned sev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anisakis: Encyclopedia - Anisakis
Anisakis pegreffii Anisakis physeteris Anisakis schupakovi Anisakis simplex Anisakis typica Anisakis ziphidarum Anisakis is a genus of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antarctic Krill: Encyclopedia - Antarctic Krill
The Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba 1) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. Antarctic krill are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycle: Encyclopedia - Cycle
A cycle (Latin "cyclus," from Greek "kuklos" meaning circle) is anything round, in the physical sense (e.g. a bicycle) or in a temporal s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquatic Insects: Encyclopedia - Aquatic Insects
Aquatic Insects live some portion of their life cycle in the water. They feed in the same ways as other Insects. Some diving insects, suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virus: Encyclopedia - Virus
A virus is a microscopic parasite that infects cells in biological organisms. Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites; they can repr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algae: Encyclopedia - Algae
The algae (singular alga) consist of several different groups of living organisms that capture light energy through photosynthesis, conve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caryophyllidea: Encyclopedia - Caryophyllidea
The Caryophyllideans are a group of tapeworms that infect fish and annelids (segmented worms) with a simple scolex or "head." Worms in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cost-plus Pricing: Encyclopedia - Cost-plus Pricing
Cost-plus pricing is a pricing method commonly used by firms. It is used primarily because it is easy to calculate and requires little in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve: Encyclopedia - Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a national monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain in centr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Understory: Encyclopedia - Understory
Understory (or understorey) is the term for the area of a forest which grows in the shade of the overstory or canopy. Plants in the under...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenomorph: Encyclopedia - Xenomorph
The xenomorph is a fictional extraterrestrial life form of unknown origin from the Alien universe, created by writers Dan O'Bannon and Ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plankton: Encyclopedia - Plankton
Plankton are drifting organisms that inhabit the water column of oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh water. Plankton - Definitions. The na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cell Biology: Encyclopedia - Cell Biology
Cell biology (also called cellular biology or cytology, from the Greek kytos, "container") is an academic discipline which studies cells....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Smoker: Encyclopedia - Black Smoker
Black smokers are a type of hydrothermal vent found on the ocean floor. Generally hundreds of meters wide, black smokers are formed when ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia - Human
Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Age: Encyclopedia - Old Age
For the song, see Old Age. Old age consists of ages nearing the average life span of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cyc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moss: Encyclopedia - Moss
Sphagnidae Andreaeidae Tetraphidae Polytrichidae Archidiidae Buxbaumiidae Bryidae Mosses are small plants that are rarely taller than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osgi: Encyclopedia Ii - Osgi - Scope
The Framework implements an elegant, complete, and dynamic component model - something that is missing in standalone Java/VM environments...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant Nutrition: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant Nutrition - Plant Uses For Essential Nutrients
Each of these nutrients are used in a different place for a different essential function. Carbon Carbon is what most of the plant is m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metroid Species: Encyclopedia Ii - Metroid Species - History:
Metroid species - Metroid. They were said to have been originally discovered by the Galactic Federation while researching SR-388. Not l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heartworm: Encyclopedia Ii - Heartworm - Treatment
If either a blood test or the onset of symptoms betray the presence of heartworms, treatment is indicated. Treatment is highly efficaciou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kender: Encyclopedia Ii - Kender - Life Cycle
All kender go through the life cycle, a never ending circle of life and death (some kender may argue that the circle is in fact a pentago...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reliability Engineering: Encyclopedia Ii - Reliability Engineering - Reliability Requirements
For any system, one of the first tasks of reliability engineering is to adequately specify the reliability requirements. Reliability requ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lavos: Encyclopedia Ii - Lavos - Lavos' Life Cycle
The following is Lavos' instinctual life process, as it is explained in Chrono Trigger. Lavos crashes onto a planet. Upon landing on the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenomorph: Encyclopedia Ii - Xenomorph - Non-canon Castes
The following castes do not appear in the movies and are thus not considered canon. Xenomorph - Praetorian. A royal elite guard to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domestication: Encyclopedia Ii - Domestication - Process Of Domestication
There is debate within the scientific community over how the process of domestication works. Some researchers give credit to natural sele...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meteorology: Encyclopedia Ii - Meteorology - History Of Meteorology
Meteorology - Early achievements in meteorology. 350 BC The term meteorology comes from Aristotle's Meteorology. Although the term me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moss: Encyclopedia Ii - Moss - Life Cycle
Most kinds of plants have a double portion of chromosomes in their cells (diploid, i.e. each chromosome exists with a partner that contai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jellyfish: Encyclopedia Ii - Jellyfish - Life Cycle And Reproduction
Most jellyfish pass through two different body forms during their life cycle. The first is the polyp stage; in this phase, the jellyfish ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fern: Encyclopedia Ii - Fern - Evolution And Classification
Ferns first appear in the fossil record in the early-Carboniferous epoch. By the Triassic, the first evidence of ferns related to several...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bogong Moth: Encyclopedia Ii - Bogong Moth - Ecology And Life Cycle
The Bogong moth Agrotis infusa is common throughout southern Australia. These brown to blackish moths have a wingspan of approximately 45...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meteorology: Encyclopedia Ii - Meteorology - History Of Meteorology
Meteorology - Early achievements in meteorology. 350 BCE The term meteorology comes from Aristotle's Meteorology. Although the term m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virus: Encyclopedia Ii - Virus - Replication
Because viruses are acellular and do not have their own metabolism, they must utilize the machinery and metabolism of the host to reprodu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elves Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Elves Middle-earth - The Elvish Life Cycle
As told in The History of Middle-earth, the elder Tolkien's writings as edited by his son Christopher and collected into several volumes,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mothra: Encyclopedia Ii - Mothra - Shobijin
Mothra is usually accompanied by two tiny priestesses or fairies (often called shobijin—Japanese for "small beauties") who also speak f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peppered Moth: Encyclopedia Ii - Peppered Moth - Ecology And Life Cycle
Main article: peppered moth ecology (including a discussion of resting positions) In Britain, the peppered moth is univoltine (i.e. it ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plankton: Encyclopedia Ii - Plankton - Definitions
The name plankton is derived from the Greek term πλαγκτον, meaning "wanderer" or "drifter". While some forms of plankton are capa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heartworm: Encyclopedia Ii - Heartworm - Treatment
If either a blood test or the onset of symptoms betray the presence of heartworms, treatment is indicated. Treatment is highly efficaciou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Livestock: Encyclopedia Ii - Livestock - Animal Welfare And Rights
The issue of rearing livestock for human benefit raises the issue of the relationship between humans and animals, in terms of the status ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lepidoptera: Encyclopedia Ii - Lepidoptera - Families Of Lepidoptera
There are thought to be about 130 families in this order, but opinions frequently change among lepidoperists as to which these are. The t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, and Human physical appearance, and Human height,    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flesh-fly: Encyclopedia Ii - Flesh-fly - Biology
Flesh-fly maggots occasionally eat other larvae although this is usually because the other larvae are smaller and get in the way. They al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marchantiophyta: Encyclopedia Ii - Marchantiophyta - Classification
In ancient times, it was believed that liverworts cured diseases of the liver, hence the name. In Old English, the word liverwort literal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - M
List of Doctor Who aliens - Macra. The Macra appeared in the 1967 Second Doctor story The Macra Terror by Ian Stuart Black and they are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eosinophilic Pneumonia: Encyclopedia Ii - Eosinophilic Pneumonia - Pathophysiology
Eosinophilic pneumonia can develop in several different ways depending on the underlying cause of the disease. Eosinophils are thought to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - General Considerations
All the energy we consume is generated by using the four fundamental interactions of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenomorph: Encyclopedia Ii - Xenomorph - Non-canon Castes
The following castes do not appear in the movies and are thus not considered canon. Xenomorph - Praetorian. A royal elite guard to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antarctic Krill: Encyclopedia Ii - Antarctic Krill - Geographical Distribution
Antarctic Krill are found thronging the surface waters of the Southern Ocean; they have a circumpolar distribution, with the highest conc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternation Of Generations: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternation Of Generations - Distinctions
The distinction of "free-living" is important, because all sexually reproducing organisms can be thought to involve alternating phases, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allelopathy: Encyclopedia Ii - Allelopathy - Mechanisms Of Action
There are hundreds of secondary metabolites in the plant kingdom, and many are known to be phytotoxic (Einhellig, 2002). Allelopathic eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anisakis: Encyclopedia Ii - Anisakis - Health Implications
Anisakids pose a risk to human health in two ways: through infection with worms from the eating of under-processed fish, and through alle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Smoker: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Smoker - Black Smoker Ecosystem
Although life is very sparse at these depths, black smokers are the center of entire ecosystems. Sunlight is nonexistent, so many organis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Requirements Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Requirements Analysis - Main Techniques
Requirements analysis can be a long and arduous process. The requirements specialists do their work by talking to people, documenting the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alien Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Alien Film - Feature Films Within The Same Storyline
Prequels Predator (1987), directed by John McTiernan Predator 2 (1990), directed by Stephen Hopkins Alien vs. Predator (2004), directed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve: Encyclopedia Ii - Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve - History
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve - Pre to early history. Paleo-Native Americans were in the area about 12,000 years a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance, and Human height Human body types varies subst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cell Biology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cell Biology - Processes In Cell Biology
Cell biology - Movement of proteins. Proteins are synthesized by ribosomes in the cytoplasm. This process is also known as protein bios...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cost-plus Pricing: Encyclopedia Ii - Cost-plus Pricing - Calculating Price Using The Cost-plus Method
There are several ways of determining cost, and the profit can be added as either a percentage markup or an absolute amount. One example ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virus: Encyclopedia Ii - Virus - Replication
Because viruses are acellular and do not have their own metabolism, they must utilize the machinery and metabolism of the host for the pu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Movement - History
Political movements that evolved in late 18th century, like those connected to the French Revolution and Polish Constitution of May 3, 17...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teamwork: Encyclopedia Ii - Teamwork - Skills Needed For Teamwork
There are seven essential skills that one must learn in order to be able to successfully adopt the concept of teamwork. These skills are:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trematoda: Encyclopedia Ii - Trematoda - Etymology
Trematodes are commonly referred to as flukes. This term can be traced back to the Saxon name for Flounder, and refers to the flattened, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Army Aviation And Missile Command: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Army Aviation And Missile Command - History
The U.S. Army Missile Command was formally established on May 23, 1962 at Redstone Arsenal to manage the Army's missile systems. The 1995...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sea Nettle: Encyclopedia Ii - Sea Nettle - Life Cycle And Reproduction
The nettle passes though two different body forms during its life cycle. The most familiar form is the medusa, while the smaller form is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algae: Encyclopedia Ii - Algae - Relationships Among Algal Groups
Algae - Prokaryotic algae. Traditionally the cyanobacteria have been included among the algae, referred to as the cyanophytes or Blue-g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Imported Fire Ant: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Imported Fire Ant - Overview
Fire ants are more aggressive than most native ant species and have a painful sting. A person typically encounters fire ants by inadverte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alien Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Alien Film - Alien Special Edition, A.k.a. Director's Cut 2003
October 29, 2003, saw Alien re-released in cinemas as a Ridley Scott Director's Cut. It restores many—but not all—of the deleted scen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve: Encyclopedia Ii - Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve - Geography And Geologic Setting
The Craters of the Moon Lava Field spreads across 618 square miles (1,601 km²) and is the largest mostly Holocene-aged basaltic lav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fern: Encyclopedia Ii - Fern - Fern Structure
Like the sporophytes of seed plants, those of ferns consist of: Stems: Most often an underground creeping rhizome, but sometimes an abov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - A
List of Doctor Who aliens - Auton. Main article: Auton ... See also:List of Doctor Who aliens, List of Doctor Who aliens - A, List ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - W
List of Doctor Who aliens - Wirrn. The Wirrn are an insectoid race that made their debut in the 1975 Fourth Doctor story, The Ark in Sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - C
List of Doctor Who aliens - Chelonian. The Chelonians are a fictional extraterrestrial race of cybernetic humanoid tortoises who have a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - Q
List of Doctor Who aliens - Quark. Main article: Quark (Doctor Who) ... See also:List of Doctor Who aliens, List of Doctor Who alie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - R
List of Doctor Who aliens - Reaper. Reapers appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode Father's Day, written by Paul Cornell. Although not ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - T
List of Doctor Who aliens - Terileptil. The Terileptils are a reptilian humanoid species, they cannot survive long without breathing so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - V
List of Doctor Who aliens - Varga plant. The Varga plants appeared in the First Doctor serials Mission to the Unknown and The Daleks' M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Spirit
Main articles: Spirituality, Religion, and Human nature Humans apply different approaches to attempt to answer fundamental questions abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moss: Encyclopedia Ii - Moss - Overview
Botanically, mosses are bryophytes, or non-vascular plants. They can be distinguished from the apparently similar liverworts (Marchantiop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - S
List of Doctor Who aliens - Sea Devil. Main article: Sea Devil List of Doctor Who aliens - Silurian. Main article: Silurian (Docto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - P
List of Doctor Who aliens - Primord. The Primords appeared in the Third Doctor serial Inferno by Don Houghton. They were the result of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - D
List of Doctor Who aliens - Dalek. Main article: Dalek List of Doctor Who aliens - Draconian. Main article: Draconian (Doctor Who)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - I
List of Doctor Who aliens - Ice Warrior. Main article: Ice Warrior ... See also:List of Doctor Who aliens, List of Doctor Who alien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Main articles: Culture of human beings and Culture Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - F
List of Doctor Who aliens - Face of Boe. Main article: Face of Boe List of Doctor Who aliens - Foamasi. The Foamasi are an intellig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - H
List of Doctor Who aliens - Haemovore. Haemovores appeared in the Seventh Doctor story The Curse of Fenric (1989) by Ian Briggs. Vampir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternation Of Generations: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternation Of Generations - Protists
Two groups of protists undergo an alternation of generations: the slime moulds and the foraminifera. The life cycle of slime moulds is ve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - K
List of Doctor Who aliens - Kaled. Main article: Kaled List of Doctor Who aliens - Krynoid. The Krynoids appeared in the 1976 story...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Main articles: Mind and Consciousness Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - G
List of Doctor Who aliens - Gelth. The Gelth appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode The Unquiet Dead, written by Mark Gatiss. They were t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - O
List of Doctor Who aliens - Ogron. Main article: Ogron List of Doctor Who aliens - Optera. The Optera appeared in the First Doctor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Terminology
In general, the word "people" is a collective or plural term for any specific group of individual persons. However, when used to refer to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Doctor Who Aliens: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Doctor Who Aliens - N
List of Doctor Who aliens - Naglon. The Naglon are from the 1993 BBC Radio 5 Doctor Who story The Paradise of Death, written and subseq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alien Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Alien Film - Spin-offs
Spin-offs include comics, novels, and computer games. Note for example the novelization by Alan Dean Foster. The Aliens have also appeare...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flesh-fly: Encyclopedia Ii - Flesh-fly - Association With Disease
Flesh-flies can carry leprosy bacilli and can transmit intestinal pseudomyiasis to people who eat the flesh-fly larvae. Flesh-flies can a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jellyfish: Encyclopedia Ii - Jellyfish - Jellyfish In Captivity
Jellyfish are commonly displayed in a aquaria across the United States and in other countries; among the more known are the Monterey Bay ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jellyfish: Encyclopedia Ii - Jellyfish - Body Systems
The jellyfish can detect the touch of other animals using a nervous system called a "nerve net", which is located in its epidermis. Impul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jellyfish: Encyclopedia Ii - Jellyfish - Treatment Of Stings
When stung by a jellyfish, first aid may be in order. Though most jellyfish stings are not deadly, other stings, such as those perpetrate...   » Read the article