An emergent property is
A) any substance that a cell secretes into the extracellular environment.
B) a biochemical function such as galactose utilization,which has to be turned on and off.
C) an effect that occurs when a population becomes too large,such that migration is necessary.
D) a property of a system as a whole,which may be greater than the sum of individual properties of its components.
E) any property of a system that becomes evident only when the system has reached equilibrium.

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An emergent property is a property of a system that arises from the interaction of its individual components but cannot be predicted or explained by the properties of those individual components alone. In other words, it is a property of the system as a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

An Emergent Property Is