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4. any of various naturally occurring extremely complex substances that consist of amino-acid residues joined by peptide bonds, contain the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, usually sulfur, and include many essential biological compounds.
5. an infectious disease especially of young children that is caused by the poliovirus.
6. a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease.
9. of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
12. a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis.
13. the aggregate of genetically identical cells or organisms asexually produced by or from a single progenitor cell or organism.
15. the techniques or actions customarily applied in a specified situation.
17. a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.

1. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
2. the reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring.
3. an operation or procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover an unknown effect or law, to test or establish a hypothesis, or to illustrate a known law.
7. the fundamental and distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something, especially when regarded as unchangeable.
8. the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding.
10. the study of the general principles of scientific classification.
11. a branch of knowledge that deals with living organisms and vital processes.
14. the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit
16. a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis.