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pulmocutaneous circulation
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circulatory system in amphibians; the flow of blood to the lungs and the moist skin for gas exchange

pulmocutaneous circulation
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circulatory system in amphibians; the flow of blood to the lungs and the moist skin for gas exchange

pulmonary circulation
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flow of blood away from the heart through the lungs where oxygenation occurs and then returns to the heart again

pump
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active transport mechanism that works against electrochemical gradients

punctuated equilibrium
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model for rapid speciation that can occur when an event causes a small portion of a population to be cut off from the rest of the population

Punnett square
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visual representation of a cross between two individuals in which the gametes of each individual are denoted along the top and side of a grid, respectively, and the possible zygotic genotypes are recombined at each box in the grid

pupil
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small opening though which light enters

pure culture
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growth of a single cell type in the laboratory

purine
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type of nitrogenous base in DNA and RNA; adenine and guanine are purines.

pyrimidine
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type of nitrogenous base in DNA and RNA; cytosine, thymine, and uracil are pyrimidines.

pyruvate
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three-carbon sugar that can be decarboxylated and oxidized to make acetyl CoA, which enters the citric acid cycle under aerobic conditions; the end product of glycolysis