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Situationism is the view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings. | Situationism |
As previously discussed, antidiuretic hormone or ADH( also called vasopressin), as the name suggests, helps the body conserve water when body fluid volume, especially that of blood, is low. | antidiuretic hormone ADH vasopressin |
link] repeats the marginal cost and marginal revenue data from, and adds two more columns : Marginal profit is the profitability of each additional unit sold. | Marginal profit |
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of development across a lifespan. | Developmental psychology |
Odorants( odor molecules) enter the nose and dissolve in the olfactory epithelium, the mucosa at the back of the nasal cavity( as illustrated in). | Odorants |
Similarly, dialysis is the transport of any other molecule through a semipermeable membrane due to its concentration difference. | dialysis |
The molality of a solution is the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent. | The molality of a solution |
During karyogamy( “ nuclear marriage ”), the haploid nuclei fuse to form a diploid zygote nucleus. | karyogamy |
Spending on new capital goods is called investment expenditure. | investment expenditure |
Classical liberalism believes in individual liberties and rights. | Classical liberalism |
Higher - level consumers feed on the next lower tropic levels, and so on, up to the organisms at the top of the food chain : the apex consumers. | the apex consumers |
Using the work or ideas of others without proper citation is considered plagiarism. | plagiarism |
This field is closely related to human ecology, which focuses on the relationship between people and their built and natural environment. | human ecology |
One proposed group of WIMPs would have masses several orders of magnitude greater than nucleons and are sometimes called neutralinos. | neutralinos |
The coronary arteries branch from the aorta and surround the outer surface of the heart like a crown. | The coronary arteries |
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. | The Thirteenth Amendment |
A monopolist can use information on marginal revenue and marginal cost to seek out the profit - maximizing combination of quantity and price. | A monopolist |
It is an absolute temperature scale defined to have 0 K at the lowest possible temperature, called absolute zero. | It absolute zero |
Investment expenditure refers to purchases of physical plant and equipment, primarily by businesses. | Investment expenditure |
As defined in the chapter on Demand and Supply and again in the chapter on Elasticity, goods and services are called normal goods when a rise in income leads to a rise in the quantity consumed of that good and a fall in income leads to a fall in quantity consumed. | normal goods |
Changing fertility, mortality, and migration rates make up the total population composition, a snapshot of the demographic profile of a population. | the total population composition |
Potential GDP can imply different unemployment rates in different economies, depending on the natural rate of unemployment for that economy. | Potential GDP |
The bacteria performs the reverse process, the reduction of nitrate from the soils to gaseous compounds such as N2O, NO, and N2, a process called denitrification. | denitrification |
A mutual fund that seeks only to mimic the overall performance of the market is called an index fund. | an index fund |
The family Hominidae of order Primates includes the hominoids : the great apes. | the great apes |
Flow - resistive refers to the work of the alveoli and tissues in the lung, whereas elastic work refers to the work of the intercostal muscles, chest wall, and diaphragm. | Flow - resistive elastic work |
Today this structure of power sharing is referred to as federalism. | federalism |
Distance traveled is the total length of the path traveled between two positions. | Distance traveled |
Bottom - up processing refers to the fact that perceptions are built from sensory input. | Bottom - up processing |
Anatomical dead space or anatomical shunt, arises from an anatomical failure, while physiological dead space or physiological shunt, arises from a functional impairment of the lung or arteries. | Anatomical dead space anatomical shunt physiological dead space physiological shunt |
It involves learning information that you previously learned. | It |
First, unemployment statistics do not take into account underemployment, a state in which a person accepts a lower paying, lower status job than their education and experience qualifies them to perform. | underemployment |
The independent assortment of genes can be illustrated by the dihybrid cross, a cross between two true - breeding parents that express different traits for two characteristics. | the dihybrid cross |
This also helps reduce the risks associated with inbreeding, the mating of closely related individuals, which can have the undesirable effect of bringing together deleterious recessive mutations that can cause abnormalities and susceptibility to disease. | inbreeding |
In a degradation ceremony, new members lose the aspects of their old identity and are given new identities. | a degradation ceremony |
Embedded in the thylakoid membrane is chlorophyll, a pigment( molecule that absorbs light) responsible for the initial interaction between light and plant material, and numerous proteins that make up the electron transport chain. | chlorophyll |
Casual crowds consist of people who are in the same place at the same time but who are n’t really interacting, such as people standing in line at the post office. | Casual crowds |
This is often called the winner - take - all system. | the winner - take - all system |
Many bony fishes also have a swim bladder, a gas - filled organ that helps to control the buoyancy of the fish. | a swim bladder |
The act increased the debt ceiling, but it also reduced spending and created automatic cuts, called sequestrations, if further legislation did not deal with the debt by 2013. | The act |
Graham advocated baths and cleanliness in general to preserve health ; hydropathy, or water cures for various ailments, became popular in the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. | hydropathy |
We typically envision civil liberties as being limitations on government power, intended to protect freedoms that governments may not legally intrude on. | civil liberties |
Plant viruses can be transmitted by a variety of vectors, through contact with an infected plant ’s sap, by living organisms such as insects and nematodes, and through pollen. | Plant viruses |
These unused structures without function are called vestigial structures. | vestigial structures |
Finally, the writ of habeas corpus is used in our common - law legal system to demand that a neutral judge decide whether someone has been lawfully detained. | the writ of habeas corpus |
Phylum Cnidaria includes animals that show radial or biradial symmetry and are diploblastic, that is, they develop from two embryonic layers. | Phylum Cnidaria diploblastic |
The male spores are called microspores, because of their smaller size, and develop into the male gametophyte ; the comparatively larger megaspores develop into the female gametophyte. | microspores |
Renewable forms of energy are those sources that can not be used up, such as water, wind, solar, and biomass. | Renewable forms of energy |
The ground tissue towards the interior of the vascular tissue in a stem or root is known as pith, while the layer of tissue between the vascular tissue and the epidermis is known as the cortex. | pith the cortex |
Reform movements seek to change something specific about the social structure. | Reform movements |
The patella is embedded in the tendon of the femoral extensors( quadriceps). | quadriceps |
The income effect is that a higher price means, in effect, the buying power of income has been reduced( even though actual income has not changed), which leads to buying less of the good( when the good is normal). | The income effect |
Mineral soils form directly from the weathering of bedrock, the solid rock that lies beneath the soil, and therefore, they have a similar composition to the original rock. | Mineral soils |
The amygdala is involved in our experience of emotion and in tying emotional meaning to our memories. | The amygdala |
Wealth was passed from generation to generation through primogeniture, a law stating that all property would be inherited by the firstborn son. | primogeniture |
Since many people can not afford to pay bail directly, they may instead get a bail bond, which allows them to pay a fraction of the money( typically 10 percent) to a person who sells bonds and who pays the full bail amount. | a bail bond |
Short DNA fragments called probes are designed and labeled with radioactive or fluorescent dyes to aid detection. | probes |
The acquisitive model proposes that bureaucracies are naturally competitive and power - hungry. | The acquisitive model |
A current loop always produces a magnetic dipole — that is, a magnetic field that acts like a north pole and south pole pair. | a magnetic dipole |
In the male reproductive system, the scrotum houses the testicles or testes( singular : testis), including providing passage for blood vessels, nerves, and muscles related to testicular function. | the scrotum the testicles testes |
A universe that is closed is called positively curved. | positively curved |
This class of upwardly mobile citizens promoted temperance, or abstinence from alcohol. | temperance |
A prosthetic group is a non - protein molecule required for the activity of a protein. | A prosthetic group |
Such materials are called ferromagnetic, after the Latin word for iron, ferrum. | ferromagnetic |
The total energy conversion rate of a person at rest is called the basal metabolic rate( BMR) and is divided among various systems in the body, as shown in. | the basal metabolic rate BMR |
An organism ’s underlying genetic makeup, consisting of both physically visible and non - expressed alleles, is called its genotype. | genotype |
In the early months of 1774, Parliament responded to this latest act of colonial defiance by passing a series of laws called the Coercive Acts, intended to punish Boston for leading resistance to British rule and to restore order in the colonies. | the Coercive Acts |
A diagram showing the system of interest and all of the external forces is called a free - body diagram. | a free - body diagram |
Most fungal hyphae are divided into separate cells by endwalls called septa( singular, septum)( a, c). | septa |
This statement is known as the Pauli exclusion principle, because it excludes electrons from being in the same state. | the Pauli exclusion principle |
However, all countries should prefer to make a choice that shows productive efficiency — that is, the choice is somewhere on the production possibility frontier rather than inside it. | productive efficiency |
The equilibrium price is the only price where the plans of consumers and the plans of producers agree — that is, where the amount of the product consumers want to buy( quantity demanded) is equal to the amount producers want to sell( quantity supplied). | The equilibrium price |
If the virions are released by bursting the cell, the virus replicates by means of a lytic cycle. | a lytic cycle |
Mood disorders are characterized by severe disturbances in mood and emotions — most often depression, but also mania and elation( Rothschild, 1999). | Mood disorders |
A granzyme is a protease that digests cellular proteins and induces the target cell to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. | A granzyme apoptosis |
Depression is the opposite of elevation — movement downward of a bone, such as after the shoulders are shrugged and the scapulae return to their normal position from an elevated position. | Depression |
What a buyer pays for a unit of the specific good or service is called price. | price |
A pandemic is a widespread, usually worldwide, epidemic. | A pandemic |
The bell curve uses the standard deviation to show how all scores are dispersed from the average score. | The bell curve |
The concept of going public involves the president delivering a major television address in the hope that Americans watching the address will be compelled to contact their House and Senate member and that such public pressure will result in the legislators supporting the president on a major piece of legislation. | going public |
We know from Special Relativity that relativity is the study of how different observers measure the same event, particularly if they move relative to one another. | relativity |
Such materials are called ferromagnetic, after the Latin word for iron, ferrum. | ferromagnetic |
The wires connecting the voltage source to the resistor can be assumed to have negligible resistance, or their resistance can be included in RR size 12 { R } { }. | negligible resistance |
In contrast, a person who has psychological dependence has an emotional, rather than physical, need for the drug and may use the drug to relieve psychological distress. | psychological dependence |
The category of physical capital includes the plant and equipment used by firms and also things like roads( also called infrastructure). | The category of physical capital infrastructure |
Infected cells are identified and destroyed by natural killer( NK) cells, lymphocytes that can kill cells infected with viruses or tumor cells( abnormal cells that uncontrollably divide and invade other tissue). | natural killer ( NK ) cells |
These microRNAs, or miRNAs, are short RNA molecules that are only 21 – 24 nucleotides in length. | microRNAs miRNAs |
Even if the firm has the funds, the interest rate measures the opportunity cost of purchasing business capital. | the interest rate |
Because red blood cells increase the viscosity of blood, artificially high levels of EPO can cause severe health risks. The thymus is found behind the sternum ; it is most prominent in infants, becoming smaller in size through adulthood. | The thymus |
An inertial frame of reference is a reference frame in which a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion moves at a constant speed in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force. | An inertial frame of reference |
When both mating types are present in the same mycelium, it is called homothallic, or self - fertile. | homothallic self - fertile |
Epiphytes have two types of roots : clinging aerial roots, which absorb nutrients from humus that accumulates in the crevices of trees ; and aerial roots, which absorb moisture from the atmosphere. | clinging aerial roots aerial roots |
Although the term privacy does not appear in the Constitution or Bill of Rights, scholars have interpreted several Bill of Rights provisions as an indication that James Madison and Congress sought to protect a common - law right to privacy as it would have been understood in the late eighteenth century : a right to be free of government intrusion into our personal life, particularly within the bounds of the home. | a common - law right to privacy |
Sorting, tagging, packaging, and distribution of lipids and proteins takes place in the Golgi apparatus( also called the Golgi body), a series of flattened membranes. | the Golgi apparatus the Golgi body |
Some protists can function as mixotrophs, obtaining nutrition by photoautotrophic or heterotrophic routes, depending on whether sunlight or organic nutrients are available. | mixotrophs |
Exchange rates are expressed either as the units of country A ’s currency that need to be traded for a single unit of country B ’s currency( for example, Japanese yen per British pound), or as the inverse( for example, British pounds per Japanese yen). | Exchange rates |
This is known as the Central Dogma of Life, which holds true for all organisms ; however, exceptions to the rule occur in connection with viral infections. | the Central Dogma of Life |
Apical meristems contain meristematic tissue located at the tips of stems and roots, which enable a plant to extend in length. | Apical meristems |
Based on these observations, Masters and Johnson divided the sexual response cycle into four phases that are fairly similar in men and women : excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. | the sexual response cycle |
Disability refers to a reduction in one ’s ability to perform everyday tasks. | Disability |