In the form of proteins, amino acids comprise the second largest component other than water of human muscles, cells and other tissues.

The Makgadikgadi has been established as an early habitation area for primitive man ; This large seasonal wetland is composed of several large component pans, the largest being Nwetwe Pan, Sua Pan and Nxai Pan.

In the late 19th century, its vast territory became the largest component in the newly formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner.

The most massive collection of molecular clouds in the galaxy forms an asymmetrical ring around the galactic center at a radius of 120 parsecs ; the largest component of this ring is the Sagittarius B2 complex.

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 56. 9 %, followed by the industrial sector at 26. 1 %( 2008 ).

The largest component of its economy is the service sector.

The largest known proteins are the titins, a component of the muscle sarcomere, with a molecular mass of almost 3, 000 kDa and a total length of almost 27, 000 amino acids.

The largest component of its economy is the service sector ( 67, 3 %), followed by the industry sector ( 28, 1 %) and the agriculture sector ( 4, 6 %).

The largest component of the Office of Management and Budget are the four Resource Management Offices which are organized along functional lines mirroring the U. S. federal government, each led by an OMB associate director.

The Cape Colony became by far the largest component of the new union, as it contained regions it had previously annexed, such as British Bechuanaland ( not to be confused with the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana ), Griqualand East ( the area around Kokstad ) and Griqualand West ( area around Kimberley ).

In addition, a $ 1 move in the smallest component of the DJIA has the same effect as a $ 1 move in the largest component of the average.

The second largest component of protected areas are the Indigenous Protected Areas while only 0. 3 % are privately owned.

This transformation is defined in such a way that the first principal component has the largest possible variance ( that is, accounts for as much of the variability in the data as possible ), and each succeeding component in turn has the highest variance possible under the constraint that it be orthogonal to ( i. e., uncorrelated with ) the preceding components.

Fruit production is the third largest component of agriculture in Savoie.

The largest component, the striatum, receives input from many brain areas but sends output only to other components of the basal ganglia.

Currently, The Field Services Division, or Patrol Bureau, is the largest component of the Police Department division with a staff of 22, including 1 Lieutenant, 4 Sergeants, and 17 patrol officers.

The largest component is oleic acid, a mono-unsaturated omega-9 fatty acid.

The original, and still the largest, component festivals are the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ; the latter is in its own right larger than any other similar event in the world.

The High Wycombe Urban Area, the conurbation of which the town is the largest component has a population of 118, 219.

The largest component of the army was in Piedmont and the neighbouring Po

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 55. 8 %, followed by the industrial sector at 36. 9 %.

Africa is a continent comprising 62 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface.

By volume and weight, the largest concentrations of crystals in the earth are part of the Earth's solid bedrock.

Earth's largest extinction killed 57 % of all families and 83 % of all genera ( 53 % of marine families, 84 % of marine genera, about 96 % of all marine species and an estimated 70 % of land species ) including insects.

Together they are ranked by many scientists as the second largest of the five major extinctions in Earth's history in terms of percentage of genera that went extinct.

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20 % of the water on the Earth's surface.

The largest grouping of minerals by far are the silicates ; most rocks are composed of greater than 95 % silicate minerals, and over 90 % of the Earth's crust is composed of these minerals.

The era began in the wake of the Permian-Triassic event, the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, and ended with the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, another mass extinction which is known for having killed off non-avian dinosaurs, as well as other plant and animal species.

It is also known as the " Great Dying " because it is considered the largest mass extinction in the Earth's history.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions.

At 165. 25 million square kilometres ( 63. 8 million square miles ) in area, this largest division of the World Ocean – and, in turn, the hydrosphere – covers about 46 % of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined.

The Permian Period ( along with the Paleozoic Era ) ended with the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, in which nearly 90 % of marine species and 70 % of terrestrial species died out.

The Paleozoic Era ended with the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, the Permian – Triassic extinction event.

At, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.

Surface waves travel more slowly than P-waves and S-waves, but because they are guided by the surface of the Earth ( and their energy is thus trapped near the Earth's surface ) they can be much larger in amplitude than body waves, and can be the largest signals seen in earthquake seismograms.

The Siberian Traps were formed by one of the largest known volcanic events of the last 500 million years of Earth's geological history.

The volcanic event is said to be the largest known volcanic eruption in Earth's history.

From largest to smallest: Jupiter's orbit, red supergiant star Betelgeuse, Mars ' orbit, Earth's orbit, star R Doradus, and orbits of Venus, Mercury.

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is an attractive target for aerobot exploration, as it has a nitrogen atmosphere five times as dense as that of Earth's that contains a smog of organic photochemicals, hiding the moon's surface from view by visual sensors.

The majority of Earth's atmosphere ( approximately 78 %) is nitrogen, making it the largest pool of nitrogen.

The term " precession " typically refers only to this largest secular motion ; other changes in the alignment of Earth's axis — nutation and polar motion — are much smaller in magnitude.

Ninety-five per cent of seabirds are colonial, and seabird colonies are amongst the largest bird colonies in the world, providing one of Earth's great wildlife spectacles.

The African bush elephant, Earth's largest living land animal

Tongass is Earth's largest remaining temperate rainforest.