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• Acid [r]: A chemical that accepts electron pairs, but sometimes defined at proton (H⁺) or hydronium (H₃O)⁺ ion donors. [e]
• Adenine [r]: A base incorporated into DNA and RNA and part of an energy carrier, as ATP, in metabolism. [e]
• Adenosine triphosphate [r]: A molecule sometimes called the "energy currency" of a cell [e]
• Alanine cycle [r]: A way for muscle cells to use amino acids as energy sources, while transferring to the liver the expensive task of dealing with the ammonium released from those amino acids. [e]
• Alanine [r]: The second smallest of the twenty common amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. [e]
• Angiotensin [r]: Oligopeptides which are important in the regulation of blood pressure (vasoconstriction) and fluid homeostasis via the renin-angiotensin system. These include angiotensins derived naturally from precursor angiotensinogen, and those synthesized (National Library of Medicine). [e]
• Antineoplastons [r]: Naturally-occurring peptide and amino acid derivatives which are used to control the growth of cancer. [e]
• Archaea [r]: A major group of numerous microorganisms fundamentally different from the bacteria and including many chemolithotrophs and extremophiles. [e]
• Arginine [r]: A positively charged common amino acid, incorporated into proteins. [e]
• Asparagine [r]: One of the twenty common amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. It is neutral but polar. [e]
• Aspartic acid [r]: One of the common amino acids incorporated into proteins. It is charged, polar, and hydrophilic. [e]
• Bacterial cell structure [r]: Morphological and genetic features of unicellular prokaryotic organisms characterized by the lack of a membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. [e]
• Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
• Biogenic amine receptor [r]: Cell surface proteins that bind biogenic amines with high affinity and regulate intracellular signals which influence the behavior of cells (U.S. National Library of Medicine). [e]
• Biosynthesis [r]: The production of chemical metabolites by living systems. [e]
• Carboxylic acid [r]: An organic acid with the formula R-COOH or R-CO₂H. [e]
• Carnitine [r]: An essential amino acid for some animals which carries long chain fatty acids across the inner mitochondrial membrane. [e]
• Catabolism [r]: The metabolic process that breaks down molecules into smaller units. [e]
• Cell (biology) [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. [e]
• Chorismate [r]: In bacteria, the chemical precursor for the biosynthesis of the amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan. [e]
• Citric acid cycle [r]: A series of enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions of central importance in all living cells that use oxygen as part of cellular respiration. [e]
• Connexin [r]: Family of structurally-related transmembrane proteins that assemble to form vertebrate gap junctions. [e]
• Cysteine [r]: One of the twenty common amino acids and one of two that contains a sulfur atom. [e]
• Cystine [r]: A molecular dimer formed by two molecules of cysteine, which are connected by a disulfide bond. [e]
• DNA [r]: A macromolecule that stores genetic information. Chemically, a nucleic acid. [e]
• Enantiomer [r]: Chemical structure that has a nonsuperimposible mirror image of itself. [e]
• Evolution of cells [r]: The birth of cells marked the passage from pre-biotic chemistry to partitioned units resembling modern cells. [e]
• Fermentation (food) [r]: The conversion of nutrients to desired products, such as ethanol, acetic acid or acetone, using yeast, bacteria, or a combination thereof [e]
• Gamma-aminobutyric acid [r]: (GABA, or γ-aminobutyrate), the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. [e]
• Gene [r]: The functional unit of heredity. [e]
• Genotype [r]: Genetic makeup, as distinguished from the physical appearance, of an organism or a group of organisms, based on a combination of alleles located on homologous chromosomes that determines a specific characteristic or trait. [e]
• Gentamicin [r]: Aminoglycoside antibiotic obtained from Micromonospora purpurea and related species for treating serious infections. [e]
• Gluconeogenesis [r]: Formation of glucose, especially by the liver, from noncarbohydrate precursors, such as amino acids, lactate, pyruvate, and the glycerol portion of fats. [e]
• Glutamic acid [r]: One of the 20 common amino acids and one of two acidic amino acids. [e]
• Glutamine [r]: A polar, neutral amino acid, the amide version of glutamic acid. [e]
• Glycine [r]: The smallest of the twenty common amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. [e]
• Gram stain [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Halobacterium NRC-1 [r]: A microorganism from the Archaea kingdom perfectly suited for life in highly saline environments giving biologists an ideal specimen for genetic studies. [e]
• Histidine [r]: One of the twenty common α-amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. [e]
• Histine [r]: One of the common amino acids used in protein synthesis. [e]
• Histone [r]: Proteins essential for packaging DNA into chromatin and a scaffold for methylation and acetylation modifications that are part of the chromatin code. [e]
• Homocysteine [r]: A thiol-containing amino acid formed by a demethylation of methionine (National Library of Medicine). [e]
• Hormone [r]: A chemical director of biological activity that travels through some portion of the body as a messenger. [e]
• Hydrogen bond [r]: A non-covalent and non-ionic chemical bond involving a hydrogen atom and either Fluorine, Nitrogen, or Oxygen. [e]
• Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis [r]: Genetic disorder, which occurs in humans and horses, characterized by muscle hyperexcitability or weakness which can lead to uncontrolled shaking followed by paralysis. [e]
• Isoleucine [r]: One of the twenty common amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. [e]
• Leucine [r]: An aliphatic, non-polar, hydrophobic amino acids incorporated into proteins. [e]
• Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
• List of biology topics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lysine [r]: A positively charged amino acid used by living systems to build proteins. [e]
• Maize [r]: Cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the world, and one of the most widely grown crops in the Americas. [e]
• Metabolism [r]: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. [e]
• Methionine [r]: One of two common amino acids used in proteins that contain a sulfur atom. [e]
• Microsporum canis [r]: Fungus that causes dermatophytosis (ringworm) in dogs and cats. [e]
• Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids [r]: Article published by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in the scientific journal Nature in 1953, which first described the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. [e]
• Mutation [r]: Changes to the DNA sequence that cause new genetic variation. [e]
• Netilmicin [r]: An aminoglycoside antibiotic derivative of sisomycin. [e]
• Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
• Organic chemistry [r]: The scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen, which may contain any number of other elements. [e]
• Organism [r]: An individual living individual: a complex, adaptive physical system that acts a integrated unit that sustains metabolism and reproduces progeny that resemble it. [e]
• Oxytocin [r]: A mammalian hormone that is secreted into the bloodstream from the posterior pituitary gland, and which is also released into the brain where it has effects on social behaviors. [e]
• Peptide hormone [r]: A class of chemical messengers, secreted into the blood from endocrine cells, that bind to specific receptors expressed on the plasma membrane of target cells. [e]
• Phenylalanine [r]: An aromatic amino acid incorporated into proteins. [e]
• Pineal gland [r]: Endocrine gland, in humans near the centre of the brain, secretes melatonin. [e]
• Polypeptide [r]: Compound containing two or more amino acids linked by a peptide bond, called dipeptide, tripeptide, etc., depending on the number of amino acids present. [e]
• Prion [r]: Simple proteins that do not contain any nucleic acid, thought to act as an infectious agent responsible for Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, kuru and possibly other degenerative diseases of the brain in humans, scrapie in sheep, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). [e]
• Proline [r]: A cyclic, non-polar amino acid used in proteins. [e]
• Protein structure [r]: The structure of a protein, consisting of primary, secondary and tertiary structures. [e]
• Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. [e]
• RNA world hypothesis [r]: Proposes that a world filled with life based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) predated current life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). [e]
• RNA [r]: A polymer, made using the nucleotides of adenosine, guanosine, uridine and cytidine, that is used for a variety of biological functions in living systems. [e]
• Rabbit [r]: Long-eared, short-tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. [e]
• Residue (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Serine [r]: One of three hydroxylated amino acids used in protein synthesis; subject to phosphorylation. [e]
• Single-nucleotide polymorphism [r]: A DNA sequence variation across chromosomes within an individual or a species, involving only a single base change. [e]
• Standard genetic code [r]: Correlation between RNA codons and protein amino acids. [e]
• Streptococcus pyogenes [r]: Spherical gram-positive pathogenic bacterium that grows in long chains and is the cause of Group A streptococcal infections, and fatal septicemias. [e]
• Streptomycin [r]: An antibiotic drug, produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus, used to treat tuberculosis and other bacterial infections. [e]
• Threonine [r]: One of three hydroxylated amino acids in proteins; it may be phosphorylated [e]
• Tryptophan [r]: One of four common aromatic amino acids in proteins. [e]
• Tyrosine [r]: One of four common aromatic amino acids use in protein synthesis; it may be phosphorylated. [e]
• Urea cycle [r]: Cycle of biochemical reactions occurring in many animals that produces urea (NH2)2CO from ammonia (NH3), with the key reaction being the hydrolysis of arginine by arginase to ornithine and urea. [e]
• Valine [r]: One of the twenty common amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. It is aliphatic and non-polar. [e]
• Vasopressin [r]: A hormone also called (arginine vasopressin, (AVP); formerly known as antidiuretic hormone, ADH), produced in the hypothalamus secreted from the posterior pituitary that causes kidneys to concentrate urine to conserve water, also causes vasoconstriction. [e]
• Vitamin K [r]: It denotes a group of 2-methilo-naphthoquinone derivatives that acts as a lipid co-factor for hemostasis. [e]