Category: C
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Core curriculum
In education, required curriculum for all students. Curriculum design in which one subject or group of subjects becomes a focal unit around which all other subjects are correlated. Those courses taken by all students in a particular group.
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Coracoid
As used in anatomy, like a raven’s beak in form or shape.
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Coracidium
In biology, a ciliated free-living stage that emerges from some tapeworm eggs when they hatch.
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Copy choice
In genetics, an explanation for crossing over which assumes that crossing over occurs during the process of chromosome duplication. First suggested by J. Belling in 1930. Duplication or copying proceeds partially alone one homologue and partially along another.
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Copulin
A pheromone produced by dogs.
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Copolymers
Mixtures of more than one polymer.
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Coping strategies
The ways people devise to help prevent, avoid, or control emotional distress.
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Coping skills
Techniques one uses for coping: coping mechanisms. Any characteristic or behavioral pattern that enhances a person’s adaptation. Coping skills include a stable value or religious belief system, problem solving, social skills, health-energy, and commitment to a social network.
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Coordinate repression
In genetics, control of structural genes in an operon by a single operator gene. Simultaneous reduction of the enzyme levels of a metabolic pathway.
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Cooperative play
Play that is organized for some specific purpose and that requires a division of labor. Players are easily distinguished from nonplayers in.