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Plant

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Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes. By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae, a group that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, mosses, and the green algae, but excludes the red and brown algae.

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Desert

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A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation. About one-third of the land surface of the Earth is arid or semi-arid. This includes much of the polar regions, where little precipitation occurs, and which are

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Tool

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A tool is an object that can extend an individual’s ability to modify features of the surrounding environment. Although many animals use simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates back hundreds of millennia, have been observed using tools to make other tools. Early tools, made of such materials as stone, bone, and wood, were used for preparation

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Nocturnality

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Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is “nocturnal“, versus diurnal meaning the opposite. Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing, smell, and specially adapted eyesight. Some animals, such as cats and ferrets, have eyes that can adapt to both low-level and bright day levels of illumination (see metaturnal). Others, such as bushbabies and

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Lepidochrysops erici

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Lepidochrysops erici is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in north-western Zambia. Adults have been recorded in October. Adults feed on flowers of the larval host plant. The larvae feed on Ocimum species. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Lycaenidae Genus: Lepidochrysops Species: L. erici Etymology The species named for Eric Gardiner, son of the author.

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Acrobelione

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Acrobelione is a genus of Isopoda parasites, in the family Bopyridae, containing the following species: Acrobelione anisopoda Bourdon, 1981 Acrobelione halimedae Boyko, Williams & Shields, 2017 Acrobelione langi Van Name, 1920 Acrobelione reverberii Restivo, 1970 Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Isopoda Family: Bopyridae Genus: Acrobelione

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Longhorn Beetle (Family Cerambycidae)

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Longhorn beetles are members of the beetle family Cerambycidae, a large and diverse group within the order Coleoptera. They are distinguished by their exceptionally long antennae, which in many species equal or exceed the length of the body. With more than 35,000 described species worldwide, longhorn beetles occupy a wide range of ecological niches and

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