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  2. Rate-limiting step (biochemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Blackman (1905) [3] stated as an axiom: "when a process is conditioned as to its rapidity by a number of separate factors, the rate of the process is limited by the pace of the slowest factor." This implies that it should be possible, by studying the behavior of a complicated system such as a metabolic pathway, to characterize a single factor ...

  3. Kagu - Wikipedia

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    The kagu or cagou (Rhynochetos jubatus) is a crested, long-legged, and bluish-grey bird endemic to the dense mountain forests of New Caledonia.It is the only surviving member of the genus Rhynochetos and the family Rhynochetidae, [3] although a second species has been described from the fossil record.

  4. Theory of constraints - Wikipedia

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    If a constraint's throughput capacity is elevated to the point where it is no longer the system's limiting factor, this is said to "break" the constraint. The limiting factor is now some other part of the system, or may be external to the system (an external constraint). This is not to be confused with a breakdown.

  5. Abiotic component - Wikipedia

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    Abiotic factors and the phenomena associated with them underpin biology as a whole. They affect a plethora of species, in all forms of environmental conditions, such as marine or land animals. Humans can make or change abiotic factors in a species' environment.

  6. Carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    The specific reason why a population stops growing is known as a limiting or regulating factor. [15] Reaching carrying capacity through a logistic growth curve. The difference between the birth rate and the death rate is the natural increase.

  7. Primary production - Wikipedia

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    The factors limiting primary production in the ocean are also very different from those on land. The availability of water, obviously, is not an issue (though its salinity can be). Similarly, temperature, while affecting metabolic rates (see Q 10 ), ranges less widely in the ocean than on land because the heat capacity of seawater buffers ...

  8. Van 't Hoff factor - Wikipedia

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    The van 't Hoff factor i (named after Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff) is a measure of the effect of a solute on colligative properties such as osmotic pressure, relative lowering in vapor pressure, boiling-point elevation and freezing-point depression.

  9. Form factor (design) - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of some common motherboard form factors (pen for scale) Form factor is a hardware design aspect that defines and prescribes the size, shape, and other physical specifications of components, particularly in electronics. [1] [2] A form factor may represent a broad class of similarly sized components, or it may prescribe a specific ...