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  2. State (polity) - Wikipedia

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    Politics portal. v. t. e. A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory. [1] Government is considered to form the fundamental apparatus of contemporary states. [2] [3] Most often, a country has a single state, with various administrative divisions.

  3. Intersex - Wikipedia

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    Intersex Human Rights Australia says it maintains 1.7% as its preferred upper limit "despite its flaws", stating both that the estimate "encapsulates the entire population of people who are stigmatized – or risk stigmatization – due to innate sex characteristics", and that Sax's definitions exclude individuals who experience such stigma and ...

  4. Transgender - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. [1] Some transgender people who desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another identify as transsexual.

  5. Population study - Wikipedia

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    Population study is an interdisciplinary field of scientific study that uses various statistical methods and models to analyse, determine, address, and predict population challenges and trends from data collected through various data collection methods such as population census, registration method, sampling, and some other systems of data ...

  6. Hermaphrodite - Wikipedia

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    Hermaphrodite. Garden snails mating. A hermaphrodite ( / hərˈmæfrəˌdaɪt /) is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes. [1] Animal species in which individuals are of different sexes, either male or female but not both, are gonochoric, which is the opposite of hermaphroditic. [2]

  7. Population dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Population dynamics has traditionally been the dominant branch of mathematical biology, which has a history of more than 220 years, [1] although over the last century the scope of mathematical biology has greatly expanded. [citation needed] The beginning of population dynamics is widely regarded as the work of Malthus, formulated as the ...

  8. Allele - Wikipedia

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    Allele. An allele [1], or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule. [2] Alleles can differ at a single position through single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), [3] but they can also have insertions and deletions of up to several thousand base pairs. [4]

  9. p-value - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The p -value is the probability under the null hypothesis of obtaining a real-valued test statistic at least as extreme as the one obtained. Consider an observed test-statistic from unknown distribution . Then the p -value is what the prior probability would be of observing a test-statistic value at least as "extreme" as if null ...