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  • Radiation zone

    Radiation zone

    A radiative zone is a layer of a star's interior where energy is primarily transported toward the exterior by means of radiative diffusion and thermal conduction, rather than by convection. Energy

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  • Animal breeding

    Animal breeding

    Animal breeding is a branch of animal science that addresses the evaluation (using best linear unbiased prediction and other methods) of the genetic value (estimated breeding value, EBV) of livesto

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  • Stellar atmosphere

    Stellar atmosphere

    The stellar atmosphere is the outer region of the volume of a star, lying above the stellar core, radiation zone and convection zone.Photo taken in France during the 1999 solar eclipseOverviewThe s

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  • Selective breeding

    Selective breeding

    Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by

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  • Stellar corona

    Stellar corona

    This article needs additional citations for verification.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "St

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  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Charles Robert Darwin (/ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / DAR -win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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  • Solar wind

    Solar wind

    The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic e

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  • Coral atoll

    Coral atoll

    An atoll (/ˈ æ t . ɒ l , -ɔː l , -oʊ l , ə ˈ t ɒ l , -ˈ t ɔː l , -ˈ t oʊ l / ) is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim.

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  • Radiation belt

    Radiation belt

    The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere. Ear

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  • Ailuk Atoll

    Ailuk Atoll

    Ailuk Atoll (Marshallese: Aelok, [ɑelʲokʷ] ) is an inhabited coral atoll of 57 islets in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands.Ailuk AtollMa

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