EP CONNECT ONLINE ACCESS FOR BIOLOGY
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Author: Raven
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There are varieties of organisms on the Earth, which are studied by biologists and are characterized on the basis of their emerged properties. These emergent properties define the living organisms as different from the other non-living things.
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