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The rearrangement of charges in a material caused by a nearby charged object, without direct contact.

A technique that uses living cells and biomaterials to build biological structures layer by layer.

Nonliving environmental conditions such as temperature, light, pH, and moisture.

An AC generator is a device that produces alternating current by rotating a coil in a magnetic field.

Acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity.

How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value.

The minimum amount of energy required for reactant molecules to start a chemical reaction.

Activation energy ($E_a$) is the minimum amount of energy that reacting particles must have for a chemical reaction to start.

The region of an enzyme where the substrate binds and the reaction takes place.

Measured mass or amount of product actually obtained from a chemical reaction in an experiment. This is usually less than the calculated maximum (theoretical yield) due to incomplete reactions or material loss during processes like filtering or transferring

Traits that improve an organism’s chances of surviving and reproducing in its environment.

Air resistance is the frictional force acting on objects moving through air.

Organic compounds that contain one or more hydroxyl groups (–OH) attached to a carbon atom in a hydrocarbon chain.

Hydrocarbons (compounds made only of carbon and hydrogen), which contain only single bonds between carbon atoms (C–C)

Hydrocarbons that contain at least one carbon–carbon double bond (C=C).

Speciation caused by geographical separation.

An electric current that repeatedly reverses direction, typically produced by generators in power stations.

An electric current that repeatedly changes direction, typically produced by a generator.

A device used to measure electric current in a circuit.

The maximum displacement from equilibrium (or, for sound, the maximum pressure variation) of the oscillation.

A protein produced by B lymphocytes that binds to a specific antigen to help neutralize it.

A molecule, usually a protein, that is recognised as foreign by the immune system and triggers an immune response.

A small rocky body that orbits the Sun, most commonly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Atmospheric pressure is the pressure exerted by the weight of the air above a surface.