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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Henderson's dictionary of biology</title>
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    <title>Dictionary of biology</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lawrence, Eleanor</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1949-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>Fiftheen edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xii, 758 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>"With over 22,000 entries, Henderson's Dictionary of Biology continues to be an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers within any of the biological sciences. This fourteenth edition has updated and revised many existing definitions, and has included new terms from exciting areas such as bioinformatics, proteomics, and genomics"--Publisher's description.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Abbreviations -- Units and conversions -- SI prefixes -- Greek alphabet -- Common Latin and Greek noun endings -- The dictionary -- Appendix 1: An outline of the plant kingdom -- Appendix 2: An outline of the kingdom fungi -- Appendix 3: An outline of the animal kingdom -- Appendix 4: An outline of the protists -- Appendix 5: An outline of the domain bacteria -- Appendix 6: An outline of the domain archaea -- Appendix 7: Virus families -- Appendix 8: Geological timescale -- Appendix 9: Etymological origins of some common word elements in biology.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Eleanor Lawrence.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Biology</topic>
    <topic>Dictionaries</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Biology</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">R 570.3 DICT</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781408234303 (paperback)</identifier>
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