accommodation: in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
developmental learning: learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development
base pair: one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA