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Related lists: list of biochemistry topics, list of molecular biology topics, list of evolutionary biology topics, list of biologists.
A
- Abiogenesis: Add brief definition or description -
- Aerobic respiration: Add brief definition or description -
- Absorption spectrum: Add brief definition or description -
- Acclimatization: Add brief definition or description -
- Acetyl CoA: Add brief definition or description -
- Acid-base physiology: Add brief definition or description -
- Acrosome: Add brief definition or description -
- Acrosome reaction: Add brief definition or description -
actin: A globular protein that can polymerise to form microfilaments; essential for cell movement and muscle contraction. [e] -- action potential: A brief change in voltage that travels along a cell membrane. [e] -
- Activation energy: Add brief definition or description -
- Active site: Add brief definition or description -
- Active transport: Add brief definition or description -
- adaptation: Describes the event of a trait being selected by the mechanism of natural selection. [e] -
- Adaptive radiation: Add brief definition or description -
- adenine: A base incorporated into DNA and RNA and part of an energy carrier, as ATP, in metabolism. [e] -
- Adenosine triphosphate: A molecule sometimes called the "energy currency" of a cell [e] (ATP) -
- Adenosine diphosphate: Add brief definition or description (ADP) -
- Aerobic: Add brief definition or description -
- affinity chromatography: Method to filter a specific molecule out of a solution. [e] -
agriculture: The process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. [e] -- Albinism: Add brief definition or description -
- Albumin: Add brief definition or description -
- alcohol: A chemical compound that contains a hydroxy group (OH). [e] -
Alexander Fleming: Scottish biologist and pharmacologist (1881-1955), best-known for the discovery of penicillin for which he won the Nobel Prize. [e] -
Alfred Russel Wallace: (1823 – 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independently of Darwin. [e] -- algae: A diverse group of simple, typically photosynthetic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms; the largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds. [e] -
- allele: A specific sequence of a gene, and one of a pair in a diploid cell (one per chromosome). [e] -
- Allele frequency: Add brief definition or description -
- Allosteric site: Add brief definition or description -
- Allostery: Add brief definition or description -
- Alpha helix: Add brief definition or description -
- Alternation of generations: Add brief definition or description -
- Alternative splicing: Add brief definition or description -
- Ames test: Add brief definition or description -
- amine: An organic chemical containing a nitrogen atom with tetrahedral arrangement of it electron pairs and its lone pair of electrons. [e] -
- amino acid: Add brief definition or description -
- Adenosine monophosphate: Add brief definition or description (AMP) -
- anabolism: Add brief definition or description -
- Anaerobic: Add brief definition or description -
- Anaphase: Add brief definition or description -
- anatomy: Add brief definition or description -
- Andrew Huxley: Add brief definition or description -
- animal: Add brief definition or descriptionia -
- animal: Add brief definition or descriptions -
- Antheridium: Add brief definition or description -
- antibiotic: Add brief definition or description -
- antibiotic resistance: Add brief definition or description -
- antibody: Add brief definition or description -
- Anticodon: Add brief definition or description -
- antigen: Add brief definition or description -
- Antigenic determinant: Add brief definition or description -
- Antigenic shift: Add brief definition or description -
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: Add brief definition or description -
- Ants: Add brief definition or description -
- Apes: Add brief definition or description -
- Apical meristem: Add brief definition or description -
- apoptosis: Add brief definition or description -
- Arabidopsis: Add brief definition or description -
- Arbovirus: Add brief definition or description -
- Archaebacteria: Add brief definition or description -
- Archegonium: Add brief definition or description -
- artery: Add brief definition or description -
- Artificial life: Add brief definition or description -
- Aseptic technique in microbiology: Add brief definition or description -
- asexual reproduction: Add brief definition or description -
- ATPase: Add brief definition or description -
- ATP synthase: Add brief definition or description -
- Audition: Add brief definition or description -
- Autecology: Add brief definition or description -
- Autoradiography: Add brief definition or description -
- Autosome: Add brief definition or description -
- Autotrophic: Add brief definition or description -
- Avian influenza: Add brief definition or description -
- Axon: Add brief definition or description
B
- B cell: Add brief definition or description -
- bacteria: Add brief definition or description -
- Bacterial conjugation: Add brief definition or description -
- Barr body: Add brief definition or description -
- behavior: Add brief definition or description -
- Beta sheet: Add brief definition or description -
- biodiversity: Add brief definition or description -
- Biological dispersal: Add brief definition or description -
- Biological tissue: Add brief definition or description -
- Biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Blastomere: Add brief definition or description -
- Blastula: Add brief definition or description -
- Blunt end: Add brief definition or description -
- 5-bromouracil: Add brief definition or description -
- Bacteria: Add brief definition or description -
- Barbiturate: Add brief definition or description -
- Biochemical techniques: Add brief definition or description -
- biochemistry: Add brief definition or description -
- bioinformatics: Add brief definition or description -
- Membranes: Add brief definition or description -
- Biological psychology: Add brief definition or description -
- Biological tissue: Add brief definition or descriptions -
- Biologist: Add brief definition or description -
- biome: Add brief definition or description -
- biomechanics: Add brief definition or description -
- biophysics: Add brief definition or description -
- Biopolymer: Add brief definition or description -
- biotechnology: Add brief definition or description -
- BLAST: Add brief definition or description -
- Blastula: Add brief definition or description -
- blood: Add brief definition or description -
- Blood cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Blood count: Add brief definition or description -
- BOLD effect: Add brief definition or description -
- Bone: Add brief definition or description -
- botany: Add brief definition or description -
- brain: Add brief definition or description -
- Bryophyte: Add brief definition or description
C
- C3 carbon fixation: Add brief definition or description -
- C4 photosynthesis: Add brief definition or description -
- Calvin cycle: Add brief definition or description -
- CAM photosynthesis: Add brief definition or description -
- CAM plants: Add brief definition or description -
- cancer: Add brief definition or description -
- Capacitation: Add brief definition or description -
- Capillary: Add brief definition or description -
- Carbohydrate: Add brief definition or description -
- Carbon cycle: Add brief definition or description -
- Carbon fixation: Add brief definition or description -
- carnivore: Add brief definition or description -
- Carolus Linnaeus: Add brief definition or description -
- carotene: Add brief definition or description -
- Carrier: Add brief definition or description -
- Carrying capacity: Add brief definition or description -
- Cartilage: Add brief definition or description -
- Casparian strip: Add brief definition or description -
- catabolism: Add brief definition or description -
- cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Cell biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Cell culture: Add brief definition or description -
- cell division: Add brief definition or description -
- Cell growth: Add brief definition or description -
- cell membrane: Add brief definition or description -
- Cell metabolism: Add brief definition or description -
- cell nucleus: Add brief definition or description -
- Cell wall: Add brief definition or description -
- Cellular differentiation: Add brief definition or description -
- cellular respiration: Add brief definition or description -
- Cellulose: Add brief definition or description -
- Centriole: Add brief definition or description -
- Centromere: Add brief definition or description -
- Centrosome: Add brief definition or description -
- Chaperone protein: Add brief definition or description -
- Charles Robert Darwin: Add brief definition or description -
- Chemiosmosis: Add brief definition or description -
- Chemautotrophic: Add brief definition or description -
- Chiasma: Add brief definition or description -
- Chimera (genetics): Add brief definition or description -
- Chi square test: Add brief definition or description -
- Chlorophyll: Add brief definition or description -
- chloroplast: Add brief definition or description -
- Chloroplast membrane: Add brief definition or description -
- cholesterol: Add brief definition or description -
- Chromatid: Add brief definition or description -
- Chromatin: Add brief definition or description -
- chromatography: Add brief definition or description -
- Chromosome: Add brief definition or description -
- Chromosome walking: Add brief definition or description -
- Cilium: Add brief definition or description -
- Circadian rhythm: Add brief definition or description -
- circulatory system: Add brief definition or description -
- Cis face: Add brief definition or description -
- Cisterna: Add brief definition or description -
- citric acid cycle: Add brief definition or description -
- Cladistics: Add brief definition or description -
- Classical genetics: Add brief definition or description -
- Clearance: Add brief definition or description -
- Clogging: Add brief definition or description -
- cloning: Add brief definition or description -
- Codon: Add brief definition or description -
- Codon usage bias: Add brief definition or description -
- Coenzyme: Add brief definition or description -
- colchicine: Add brief definition or description -
- Collagen: Add brief definition or description -
- Colony: Add brief definition or description -
- Commensalism: Add brief definition or description -
- Common descent: Add brief definition or description -
- Communicable disease: Add brief definition or description -
- community: Add brief definition or description -
- Community ecology: Add brief definition or description -
- competition: Add brief definition or description -
- Competitive exclusion principle: Add brief definition or description -
- Competitive inhibition: Add brief definition or description -
- Computational biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Concentration gradient: Add brief definition or description -
- Continental drift: Add brief definition or description -
- Convergance: Add brief definition or description -
- Convergent evolution: Add brief definition or description -
- Cooperativity: Add brief definition or description -
- Cork cambium: Add brief definition or description -
- Cotyledon: Add brief definition or description -
- Craig Venter: Add brief definition or description -
- cristae: Add brief definition or description -
- Crossing over: Add brief definition or description -
- cryobiology: Add brief definition or description -
- cryopreservation: Add brief definition or description -
- Cryptobiology: Add brief definition or description -
- Cryptobiosis: Add brief definition or description -
- CT: Add brief definition or description -
- C-terminus: Add brief definition or description -
- Culture: Add brief definition or description -
- Cuticula: Add brief definition or description -
- Cyclic electron flow: Add brief definition or description -
- Cytokinesis: Add brief definition or description -
- Cytoplasm: Add brief definition or description -
- cytoskeleton: Add brief definition or description -
- Cytosol: Add brief definition or description -
- Cytotoxic T cell: Add brief definition or description
D
- Decarboxylation reaction: Add brief definition or description -
- Decomposition: Add brief definition or description -
- Defective interfering particle: Add brief definition or description -
- Deletion: Add brief definition or description -
- Denaturation: Add brief definition or description -
- dendrite: Add brief definition or description -
- Dendritic cell: Add brief definition or description -
- dengue fever: Add brief definition or description -
- Depolarization: Add brief definition or description -
- Developmental biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Diabetes: Add brief definition or description -
- dialysis: Add brief definition or description -
- Diffusion: Add brief definition or description -
- Digestion: Add brief definition or description -
- Digestive system: Add brief definition or description -
- Digital organism: Add brief definition or description -
- dihybrid cross: Add brief definition or description -
- Dimer: Add brief definition or description -
- Diploid: Add brief definition or description -
- Disulfide bridge: Add brief definition or description -
- DNA: Add brief definition or description -
- DNA replication: Add brief definition or description -
- DNA sequence: Add brief definition or description -
- DNA virus: Add brief definition or description -
- Double helix: Add brief definition or description -
- Down syndrome: Add brief definition or description -
- Drosophila: Add brief definition or description -
- Drugs: Add brief definition or description -
- Dynein: Add brief definition or description
E
- ear: Add brief definition or description -
- E. coli: Add brief definition or description -
- ebola: Add brief definition or description -
- Ecdysone: Add brief definition or description -
- ecology: Add brief definition or description -
- Ecological genetics: Add brief definition or description -
- ecosystem: Add brief definition or description -
- Ectotherm: Add brief definition or description -
- Edge effect: Add brief definition or description -
- Edward Jenner: Add brief definition or description -
- Edward's Syndrome: Add brief definition or description -
- Egg (biology): Add brief definition or description -
- Elater: Add brief definition or description -
- Electromagnetic energy: Add brief definition or description -
- Electron transport chain: Add brief definition or description -
- electrophoresis: Add brief definition or description -
- Electrophysiology: Add brief definition or description -
- embryo: Add brief definition or description -
- Embryonal development: Add brief definition or description -
- Endemism: Add brief definition or description -
- Endergonic reaction: Add brief definition or description -
- Endodermis: Add brief definition or description -
- Endomembrane system: Add brief definition or description -
- Endoplasmic reticulum: Add brief definition or description -
- Endosymbiont: Add brief definition or description -
- Endosymbiosis: Add brief definition or description -
- endosymbiotic theory: Add brief definition or description -
- Endotherm: Add brief definition or description -
- Enhancer: Add brief definition or description -
- Entomology: Add brief definition or description -
- Environmental science: Add brief definition or description -
- enzyme: Add brief definition or description -
- Epidermis: Add brief definition or description -
- Epidermis (botany): Add brief definition or description -
- epigenetics: Add brief definition or description -
- Equilibrium: Add brief definition or description -
- Ernst Haeckel: Add brief definition or description -
- ethanol: Add brief definition or description -
- Eubacteria: Add brief definition or description -
- eugenics: Add brief definition or description -
- eukaryote: Add brief definition or description -
- evolution: Add brief definition or description -
- evolutionary biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Evolutionary developmental biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Evolutionary tree: Add brief definition or description -
- Ewens's sampling formula: Add brief definition or description -
- Excretion: Add brief definition or description -
- Exergonic reaction: Add brief definition or description -
- Exon: Add brief definition or description -
- Experimental evolution: Add brief definition or description -
- Expressed sequence tag: Add brief definition or description (EST) -
- extinction: Add brief definition or description -
- eye: Add brief definition or description
F
- Facilitated diffusion: Add brief definition or description -
- FAD: Add brief definition or description -
- FADH: Add brief definition or description -
- FADH2: Add brief definition or description -
- Fat: Add brief definition or description -
- Feedback inhibition: Add brief definition or description -
- Fehling solution: Add brief definition or description -
- Female: Add brief definition or description -
- fermentation (biochemistry): Add brief definition or description -
- Fetus: Add brief definition or description -
- Fick's law of diffusion: Add brief definition or description -
- Fitness: Add brief definition or description -
- Fitness landscape: Add brief definition or description -
- Flagellum: Add brief definition or description -
- Flavine: Add brief definition or description -
- Flaviviridae: Add brief definition or description -
- flower: Add brief definition or description -
- Fluid mosaic model: Add brief definition or description -
- food web: Add brief definition or description -
- Foot and mouth disease: Add brief definition or description -
- fossil: Add brief definition or description -
- Francis Crick: Add brief definition or description -
- Francis Galton: Add brief definition or description -
- Free energy: Add brief definition or description -
- Fungi: Add brief definition or description
G
- G3P: Add brief definition or description -
- Gamete: Add brief definition or description -
- Gametophyte: Add brief definition or description -
- Gastrula: Add brief definition or description -
- Gel electrophoresis: Add brief definition or description -
- gene: Add brief definition or description -
- Genetic drift: Add brief definition or description -
- gene duplication: Add brief definition or description -
- Gene pool: Add brief definition or description -
- Genetic code: Add brief definition or description -
- Genetic fingerprint: Add brief definition or description -
- Genetic recombination: Add brief definition or description -
- genetics: Add brief definition or description -
- Gene regulatory network: Add brief definition or description -
- gene therapy: Add brief definition or description -
- genome: Add brief definition or description -
- Genome project: Add brief definition or description -
- Genomics: Add brief definition or description -
- genotype: Add brief definition or description -
- Geologic time: Add brief definition or description -
- George W. Beadle: Add brief definition or description -
- glucose: Add brief definition or description -
- Glycolipid: Add brief definition or description -
- glycolysis: Add brief definition or description -
- Glycome: Add brief definition or description -
- Glycomics: Add brief definition or description -
- Glycoprotein: Add brief definition or description -
- Glycoprotein: Add brief definition or description -
- Gobind Khorana: Add brief definition or description -
- Golgi apparatus: Add brief definition or description -
- Gondwana: Add brief definition or description -
- Gradient: Add brief definition or description -
- Grana: Add brief definition or description -
- Gravitropism: Add brief definition or description -
- Gregor Mendel: Add brief definition or description -
- Ground tissue: Add brief definition or description -
- Growth curve: Add brief definition or description -
- Guthrie test: Add brief definition or description
H
- Habitat: Add brief definition or description -
- HACEK organism: Add brief definition or description -
- Halobacteria: Add brief definition or description -
- Haploid: Add brief definition or description -
- Hardy-Weinberg principle: Add brief definition or description -
- heart: Add brief definition or description -
- Hela cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Helper T cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Hemispheric lateralization: Add brief definition or description -
- Hepadnaviridae: Add brief definition or description -
- Hepatitis B: Add brief definition or description -
- Herbivore: Add brief definition or description -
- Heredity: Add brief definition or description -
- Hereditary disease: Add brief definition or description -
- Hermaphrodite: Add brief definition or description -
- Herpetology: Add brief definition or description -
- Hershey-Chase experiment: Add brief definition or description -
- Heterochromatin: Add brief definition or description -
- Heterotroph: Add brief definition or description -
- Heterozygote: Add brief definition or description -
- Hfr cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Hibernation: Add brief definition or description -
- Hill reaction: Add brief definition or description -
- His tag: Add brief definition or description -
- histone: Add brief definition or description -
- Homeobox: Add brief definition or description -
- Homeostasis: Add brief definition or description -
- Homology: Add brief definition or description -
- Homoplasy: Add brief definition or description -
- Homozygote: Add brief definition or description -
- Homunculus: Add brief definition or description -
- hormone: Add brief definition or description -
- hormone: Add brief definition or description -
- Host: Add brief definition or description -
- Housekeeping gene: Add brief definition or description -
- human: Add brief definition or description -
- Human Genome Project: Add brief definition or description -
- human physiology: Add brief definition or description -
- Humoral immunity: Add brief definition or description -
- Hybrid: Add brief definition or description -
- Hybridization: Add brief definition or description -
- Hydrolysis: Add brief definition or description -
- Hydrolytic enzyme: Add brief definition or description -
- Hyperpolarization: Add brief definition or description
I
- Ichthyology: Add brief definition or description -
- Immune cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Immune system: Add brief definition or description -
- immunology: Add brief definition or description -
- Inbreeding: Add brief definition or description -
- Infertility: Add brief definition or description -
- insect: Add brief definition or description -
- Insectivores: Add brief definition or description -
- insulin: Add brief definition or description -
- Intermediate filament: Add brief definition or description -
- Intermembrane space: Add brief definition or description -
- Interphase: Add brief definition or description -
- Intestine: Add brief definition or description -
- intron: Add brief definition or description -
- Invasive species: Add brief definition or description -
- ion channel: Add brief definition or description -
- isoenzyme: Add brief definition or description -
- Isotonic: Add brief definition or description
J
- James Watson: Add brief definition or description -
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: Add brief definition or description -
- Joint: Add brief definition or description
K
- K-selection: Add brief definition or description -
- Kary Mullis: Add brief definition or description -
- Karyoplasm: Add brief definition or description -
- Karyotype: Add brief definition or description -
- Keratin: Add brief definition or description -
- Keystone species: Add brief definition or description -
- kidney: Add brief definition or description -
- Kinesiology: Add brief definition or description -
- Kinetic energy: Add brief definition or description -
- Klinefelter syndrome: Add brief definition or description -
- Knock-out mouse: Add brief definition or description -
- Konrad Lorenz: Add brief definition or description -
- Krebs cycle: Add brief definition or description (or
- citric acid cycle: Add brief definition or description) -
- Kwashiorkor: Add brief definition or description
L
- Lac repressor: Add brief definition or description -
- Lactic acid autotroph: Add brief definition or description -
- Lagging strand: Add brief definition or description -
- Lambda phage: Add brief definition or description -
- Larva: Add brief definition or description -
- Leading strand: Add brief definition or description -
- Leaf: Add brief definition or description -
- Leucocyte: Add brief definition or description -
- Lichen: Add brief definition or description -
- Life form: Add brief definition or description -
- Life: Add brief definition or description -
- Light reactions: Add brief definition or description -
- Limbic system: Add brief definition or description -
- Limnology: Add brief definition or description -
- Lineweaver-Burke-diagram: Add brief definition or description -
- Lipase: Add brief definition or description -
- lipid: Add brief definition or description -
- List of biochemistry topics: Add brief definition or description -
- List of biological topics: Add brief definition or description -
- List of biologists: Add brief definition or description -
- List of gene families: Add brief definition or description -
- liver: Add brief definition or description -
- Locus: Add brief definition or description -
- Long-term potentiation: Add brief definition or description -
- Louis Pasteur: Add brief definition or description -
- Lung: Add brief definition or description -
- Lynn Margulis: Add brief definition or description -
- Lyon hypothesis: Add brief definition or description -
- Lysis: Add brief definition or description -
- lysozyme: Add brief definition or description -
- Lytic cycle: Add brief definition or description
M
- Macroecology: Add brief definition or description -
- macroevolution: Add brief definition or description -
- macromolecules: Add brief definition or description -
- Major histocompatibility complex: Add brief definition or description (MHC) -
- malaria: Add brief definition or description -
- Male: Add brief definition or description -
- Malpighi body: Add brief definition or description -
- Malpighi layer: Add brief definition or description -
- Monophyletic: Add brief definition or description -
- Marburg virus: Add brief definition or description -
- Marcello Malpighi: Add brief definition or description -
- Marfan syndrome: Add brief definition or description -
- marine biology: Add brief definition or description -
- mass extinction: Add brief definition or description -
- mathematical biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Mating: Add brief definition or description -
- Max Delbrück: Add brief definition or description -
- Meiosis: Add brief definition or description -
- memory: Add brief definition or description -
- Memory cell: Add brief definition or description -
- Mendelian inheritance: Add brief definition or description -
- Meristem: Add brief definition or description -
- Metabolism: Add brief definition or description -
- Metaphase: Add brief definition or description -
- metapopulation: Add brief definition or description -
- Metazoa: Add brief definition or description -
- Michaelis-Menten kinetics: Add brief definition or description -
- Microbe: Add brief definition or description -
- microbiology: Add brief definition or description -
- Microevolution: Add brief definition or description -
- microfilament: Add brief definition or description -
- microsatellite: Add brief definition or description -
- microscope: Add brief definition or description -
- Microtubules: Add brief definition or description -
- Miller-Urey experiment: Add brief definition or description -
- Mimicry: Add brief definition or description -
- Mitochondrial membrane: Add brief definition or description -
- mitochondrion: Add brief definition or description -
- mitosis: Add brief definition or description -
- Mitotic spindle: Add brief definition or description -
- Modern evolutionary synthesis: Add brief definition or description -
- Molecular biology: Add brief definition or description -
- Molecular clock: Add brief definition or description -
- Molecular evolution: Add brief definition or description -
- Molecular genetics: Add brief definition or description -
- Molecular phylogeny: Add brief definition or description -
- Mollusc: Add brief definition or description -
- monoclonal antibody: Add brief definition or description -
- Morphogenesis: Add brief definition or description -
- Morphometrics: Add brief definition or description -
- Morula: Add brief definition or description -
- MRI: Add brief definition or description -
- Muller's ratchet: Add brief definition or description -
- Multiresistance: Add brief definition or description -
- Muscle: Add brief definition or description -
- Mutagen: Add brief definition or description -
- mutation: Add brief definition or description -
- Mutational meltdown: Add brief definition or description -
- Mutualism: Add brief definition or description -
- mycology: Add brief definition or description -
- Myosin: Add brief definition or description