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This page aims to list articles related to biology. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by following the Related changes link. This list is not necessarily complete or up to date; if you see an article that should be here but is not (or one that should not be here but is), please update the page accordingly. Main articles: Life The most salient example of biological universality is that all living things share a common carbon-based biochemistry and in particular pass on their characteristics via genetic material, which is based on nucleic acids such as DNA and which uses a common genetic code with only minor...
Related lists: list of biochemistry topics, list of molecular biology topics, list of evolutionary biology topics, list of biologists. (See Wikipedia:Biology basic topics for a pared-down list of the most basic biology topics that should be covered in an encyclopedia, organized by topic). This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia that are related to biochemistry. ...
This is a list of topics in molecular biology. ...
This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology and evolution. ...
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A abiogenesis - absorption spectrum - acetyl CoA - acrosome - acrosome reaction - actin - action potential - activation energy - active site - active transport - adaptive radiation - Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) - aerobic - affinity chromatography - albinism - albumin - alcohol - Alexander Fleming - Alfred Russel Wallace - algae - allele - allele frequency - allosteric site - allostery - alpha helix - alternative splicing - Ames test - amine - amino acid - Adenosine monophosphate (AMP) - anabolism - anaerobic - anaphase - anatomy - Andrew Huxley - animalia - animals - antibiotic - antibiotic resistance - antibody - anticodon - antigen - antigenic determinant - antigenic shift - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - apoptosis - Arabidopsis - arbovirus - archaebacteria - artificial life - aseptic technique in microbiology - asexual reproduction - ATPase - ATP synthase - audition - autoradiography - autosome - autotrophic - avian influenza - axon Jump to: navigation, search Abiogenesis (Greek a-bio-genesis, non biological origins) is, in its most general sense, the hypothetical generation of life from non-living matter. ...
An absorption spectrum is a diagram depicting the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation absorbed by a material. ...
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In spermatozoa of many animals, the acrosome is an organelle that develops over the anterior half of the spermatozoons head. ...
In sperm cells of many higher animals, the acrosome develops over the anterior half of its head. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Actin (red) profilin (blue) complex. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A. Schematic of an electrophysiological recording of an action potential showing the various phases which occur as the wave passes a point on a cell membrane. ...
The activation energy in chemistry is the energy needed by a system to initiate a particular process. ...
The active site of an enzyme is the binding site where catalysis occurs. ...
Active transport is the mediated transport of biochemicals, and other atomic/molecular substances, across membranes. ...
Adaptive radiation describes the rapid speciation of a single or a few species to fill many ecological niches. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Adenosine 5-triphosphate (ATP) is the nucleotide known in biochemistry as the molecular currency of intracellular energy transfer; that is, ATP is able to store and transport chemical energy within cells. ...
Adenosine diphosphate, abbreviated ADP, is a nucleotide. ...
Aerobic is an adjective that means requiring air (where air usually means oxygen). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Affinity chromatography is a biochemical separation method that combines size fractionation capability of gel permeation chromatography with the ability to design a stationary phase that reversibly binds to a known subset of molecules. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Albinism (from Latin albus, meaning white) is a lack of pigmentation in the eyes, skin and hair. ...
Jump to: navigation, search You may be looking Albumin is a blood plasma protein that is produced in the liver and forms a large proportion of all plasma protein. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-ghawl الغول) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) discovered the antibiotic substance lysozyme and isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum, for which he shared a Nobel Prize. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Alfred Russel Wallace for the Cornish painter see Alfred Wallis Alfred Russel Wallace, OM , FRS (January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. ...
A seaweed (Laurencia) up close: the branches are multicellular and only about 1 mm thick. ...
Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with gene. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Allele frequency is a term of population genetics that is used in characterizing the genetic diversity of a species population, or equivalently the richness of its gene pool. ...
In biochemistry, an enzyme or other protein is allosteric if its activity or efficiency changes in response to the binding of an effector molecule at a so-called allosteric site. ...
In biochemistry, an enzyme or other protein is allosteric if its activity or efficiency changes in response to the binding of an effector molecule at a so-called allosteric site. ...
A diagram of the alpha helix structure of amino acids In proteins, the α helix is a major structural motif in secondary structure. ...
Various modes of alternative splicing Alternative splicing is the process that occurs in eukaryotes in which the splicing process of a pre_mRNA can lead to different ripe mRNA molecules and therefore to different proteins. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Ames test is a biological assay used in genetics, generally genetic toxicology, to test for mutagenic properties of a chemical compound. ...
Ammonia Amines are organic compounds containing nitrogen as the key atom in the amine functional group. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In chemistry, an amino acid is any molecule that contains both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups. ...
Adenosine monophosphate, also known as 5-adenylic acid and abbreviated AMP, is a nucleotide that is found in RNA. It is an ester of phosphoric acid with the nucleoside adenosine. ...
Anabolism is the aspect of metabolism that is characterized by growth. ...
Anaerobic is a technical word which literally means without air. ...
A lung cell of a newt during early anaphase of mitosis. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Anatomical drawing of the human muscles from the Encyclopédie. ...
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley OM FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London, England, UK) is a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the...
Jump to: navigation, search Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
An antibiotic is a drug that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Schematic of antibody binding to an antigen An antibody is a protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects like bacteria and viruses. ...
An anticodon is a unit made up of nucleotides that plays an important role in various DNA cycles, including DNA transcription. ...
An antigen is a molecule that stimulates the production of antibodies. ...
Antigenic shift is the process by which two different strains of influenza combine to form a new subtype having a mixture of the surface antigens of the two original strains. ...
Anton von Leeuwenhoek Anton van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 _ August 26, 1723) was a tradesman and scientist from Delft, in the Netherlands. ...
In biology, apoptosis (from the Greek words apo = from and ptosis = falling, pronounced ap-a-tow-sis[1]) is one of the main types of programmed cell death (PCD). ...
Binomial name Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. ...
An Arbovirus (short for Arthropod borne virus) is a virus that is primarily transmitted by arthropods, such as ticks and mosquitoes. ...
Phyla / Classes Phylum Crenarchaeota Phylum Euryarchaeota Halobacteria Methanobacteria Methanococci Methanopyri Archaeoglobi Thermoplasmata Thermococci Phylum Korarchaeota Phylum Nanoarchaeota The Archaea are a major group of prokaryotes. ...
Artificial life, also known as alife or a-life, is the study of life through the use of human-made analogs of living systems. ...
Microbiologists and students of microbiology may use an aseptic technique to attempt to keep specimens of microorganisms free of microbial contamination. ...
Asexual reproduction the simplest form of reproduction and does not involve meiosis, gamete formation, or fertilization. ...
ATPases are a class of enzymes that catalyze the decomposition of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and a free phosphate ion. ...
An ATP synthase (EC 3. ...
Audition can refer to: The sense of hearing The audio editing software Adobe Audition ...
An autoradiograph is an image produced on a photographic film by the radiation from a radioactive substance. ...
An autosome is a non-sex chromosome. ...
An autotroph (in Greek eauton = self and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that produces its own cell mass and organic compounds from carbon dioxide as sole carbon source, using either light or chemical compounds as a source of energy. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Influenza A virus, the virus that causes Avian flu. ...
Jump to: navigation, search An axon, or nerve fibre, is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, which conducts electrical impulses away from the neurons cell body or soma. ...
B B cell - bacterial conjugation - Barr body - beta sheet - biodiversity - biology - biology basic topics - blastomere - blastula - blunt end - bromuracil - bacteria - barbiturate - biochemical techniques - biochemistry - bioinformatics - membranes - biological psychology - biological tissues - biologist - biomechanics - biophysics - biopolymer - biotechnology - BLAST - blood - blood cell - blood count - bone - botany B cells are lymphocytes that play a large role in the humoral immune response (as opposed to the cell-mediated immune response). ...
Bacterial conjugation is the often regarded as the bacterial equivalent of sexual reproduction or mating; however it is not actually sexual as it does not involve the fusing of gametes and the creation of a zygote, it is merely the exchange of genetic information. ...
In those species in which sex is determined by the presence of the Y or W chromosome rather than the diploidy of the X or Z, a Barr body is the inactive X chromosome in a female cell, or the inactive Z in a male. ...
Diagram of Β-Pleated sheet and bond structure of protein The β sheet (also β-pleated sheet) is a commonly occurring form of regular secondary structure in proteins, first proposed by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey in 1951. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of and in living nature. ...
Main articles: Life The most salient example of biological universality is that all living things share a common carbon-based biochemistry and in particular pass on their characteristics via genetic material, which is based on nucleic acids such as DNA and which uses a common genetic code with only minor...
A blastomere is the structure which results from the divisions of a fertilised egg during embryonic development . ...
Embryogenesis is the process of cell division and cellular differentiation which leads to the development of an embryo. ...
In biology, sticky end and blunt end are the two possible configurations resulting from the breaking of double-stranded DNA. DNA exhibits a stabilizing interaction between complementary base pairs, providing specificity to the pairing of two strands of DNA. If two complementary strands of DNA are of equal length, then...
Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular, bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Barbiturates are drugs that act as central nervous system (CNS) depressants, and by virtue of this they produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to anesthesia. ...
Biochemistry is the chemistry of life, a bridge between biology and chemistry that studies how complex chemical reactions give rise to life. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Bioinformatics or computational biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. ...
A biological membrane or biomembrane is a membrane which acts as a barrier within or around a cell. ...
It has been suggested that psychobiology be merged into this article or section. ...
Biological tissue is a substance made up of cells that perform a similar function. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Biomechanics is the research and analysis of the mechanics of living organisms, pioneered by Professor Yuan-Cheng Fung. ...
Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology. ...
A biopolymer is a polymer found in nature. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. ...
Blast can be an initialism: An algorithm, used in bioinformatics, see BLAST. BLAST can also mean Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software Verification Tool. BLAST can also mean Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope The journal of the Vorticism movement, published in 1914 and 1915: see BLAST. A figure from Norse mythology...
Jump to: navigation, search Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are present in the blood and help carry oxygen to the rest of the cells in the body Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). ...
A blood cell is any cell of any type normally found in blood. ...
A full blood count (FBC) or complete blood count (CBC) is a test requested by a doctor or other medical professional that gives information about the cells in a patients blood. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...
C C3 carbon fixation - C4 photosynthesis - Calvin cycle - CAM photosynthesis - CAM plants - cancer - capacitation - capillary - carbohydrate - carbon fixation - carnivore - Carolus Linnaeus - carotine - carrier - cartilage - catabolism - cell - cell biology - cell division - cell growth - cell nucleus - cell metabolism - cellular respiration - cellulose - centriole - centromere - centrosome - chaperone protein - Charles Robert Darwin - chemiosmosis - chemautotrophic - chiasma - chimera (animal) - Chi square test - chlorophyll - chloroplast - chloroplast membrane - cholesterine - chromatid - chromatin - chromatography - chromosome - chromosome walking - cilium - cis face - cisterna - citric acid cycle - cladistics - classical genetics - clearance - clogging - cloning - codon - codon use bias - coenzyme - colchicine - collagen - colony - common descent - competitive exclusion principle - competitive inhibition - computational biology - concentration gradient - convergent evolution - cooperativity - cooperativity cellular respiration - cotransport metabolism - Craig Venter - cristae - crossing over - cryptobiology - CT - C-terminus - culture - cuticula - cyclic electron flow - cytoplasm - cytoskeleton - cytosol - cytotoxic T cell C3 carbon fixation is a pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis. ...
For other meanings of C4, see C4 (disambiguation) C4 carbon fixation is a common metabolic pathway found in land [[plant](C4 plants). ...
The Calvin cycle (also known as Calvin-Benson cycle) is a series of biochemical reactions taking place in the chloroplasts of photosynthetic organisms. ...
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a carbon fixation pathway in some photosynthetic plants. ...
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a carbon fixation pathway in some photosynthetic plants. ...
Jump to: navigation, search When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ...
Capacitation refers to the post-ejaculatory process that takes place in mammalian spermatozoa that renders them competent to interact with, and fertilize, an oocyte. ...
Capillaries are the smallest of a bodys blood vessels, measuring 5-10 μm. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Carbohydrates (literally hydrates of carbon) are chemical compounds that consist of monosaccharide sugars of varying chain lengths and that have the general chemical formula Cm(H2O)n or are derivatives of such. ...
Carbon fixation is a process found in photosynthesis in autotrophic plants. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting only of meat, whether it comes from live animals or dead (scavenging). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In general, a carrier is a system or process with a specific property or is attributed of something (in physical or in abstract sense). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue. ...
Anabolism is the aspect of metabolism that contributes to growth. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green) The cell is the structural and functional unit of all living organisms, and are sometimes called the building blocks of life. ...
Cell biology (also called cellular biology or cytology, from the Greek kytos, container) is an academic discipline which studies cells. ...
Cell division is the process by which a cell (called the parent cell) divides into two cells (called daughter cells). ...
The term cell growth is used in two different ways in biology. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In cell biology, the nucleus (from Latin nucleus or nuculeus, kernel) is found in all eukaryotic cells that contains most of the cells genetic material. ...
A few of the metabolic pathways in a cell. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Cellular respiration is the process in which the chemical bonds of energy-rich molecules such as glucose are converted into energy usable for life processes. ...
Cellulose (C6H10O5)n is a long-chain polymer polysaccharide carbohydrate, of beta-glucose. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The centriole is the smallest part of a cell. ...
The centromere is a region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled. ...
The centrosome is the main microtubule organizing center (MTOC) of the cell. ...
A chaperone protein catalyzes the correct folding of other proteins within the cell. ...
Charles Robert Darwin in 1854, five years prior to the publication of The Origin of Species Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was an English naturalist whose revolutionary theory laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent by proposing...
The Chemiosmotic Hypothesis is the proposal in 1961, by Peter D. Mitchell, that the mitochondrion functioned as a kind of electrochemical capacitor, using the energy of NADH and FADH2 to create a proton gradient across the mitochondrial membrane and that this energy was used by a reversible proton pump, the...
Chemautotroph An chemautotroph is an organism that obtains its carbon from carbon dioxide using the oxidation of inorganic chemical compounds. ...
A chiasma, related to the Greek word for cross, is the technical term for the crossing-over of two chromatids during cellular reproduction, ie, mitosis or meiosis. ...
In zoology, a chimera is an animal which has two or more different populations of cells, which are genetically distinct and which originated in different zygotes (fertilized eggs). ...
Pearsons chi-square test (χ2) is one of a variety of chi-square tests – statistical procedures whose results are evaluated by reference to the chi-square distribution. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Chlorophyll is a green photosynthetic pigment found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The inside of a chloroplast Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and eukaryotic algae which conduct photosynthesis. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Chloroplasts contain several important membranes, vital for their function. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A chromatid forms one part of a chromosome after it has coalesced for the process of mitosis or meiosis. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Chromatin says screw you people. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Chromatography is a family of analytical chemistry techniques for the separation of mixtures. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Figure 1: Chromosome. ...
Chromosome walking is a method in genetics for identifying and sequencing long parts of a DNA strand, e. ...
Jump to: navigation, search cross-section of two motile cilia, showing the 9+2 structure A cilium (plural cilia) is an organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell. ...
A cisterna (plural cisternae) comprises a flattened membrane disk which makes up the Golgi apparatus. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The citric acid cycle (also known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the TCA cycle, or the Krebs cycle) is a series of chemical reactions of central importance in all living cells that utilize oxygen as part of cellular respiration. ...
This cladogram shows the relationship among various insect groups. ...
Classical genetics consists of the techniques and methodologies of genetics that predate the advent of molecular biology. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A clearance can refer to: a closeout sale in engineering and safety, a physical distance or space tolerance, as in a truck (lorry) or boat under a bridge an authorization or permission from an authority (i. ...
Clogging is a traditional type of percussive folk dance which is common in the Appalachian Region of the United States, associated with the predecessor to bluegrass - old time music which is based on Irish and Scots-Irish fiddle tunes. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. ...
RNA codons. ...
A coenzyme (a. ...
Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid, originally extracted from plants of the genus Colchicum (Autumn crocus, also known as the Meadow saffron). Originally used to treat rheumatic complaints and especially gout, it was also prescribed for its cathartic and emetic effects. ...
Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue. ...
In biology, a colony (from Latin colonia) means several individual organisms of the same species living closely together, usually for mutual benefit, such as stronger defences, the ability to attack bigger prey etc. ...
A group of organisms is said to have common descent if they have a common ancestor. ...
The competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gauses Law of competitive exclusion or just Gauses Law, states that two species that compete for the exact same resources cannot stably coexist. ...
In Chemistry:A chemical inhibitor is any substance which will prevent any two other substances from reacting due to its presence, often by reacting with one or the other first. ...
Bioinformatics or computational biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. ...
An ion gradient is a concentration gradient of ions, it can be called an electrochemical potential gradient of ions across membranes. ...
In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution describes the process whereby organisms not closely related independently acquire similar characteristics while evolving in separate and sometimes varying ecosystems. ...
Cooperativity is a phenomenon in biology displayed by enzymes or receptors that have multiple binding sites. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Dr. Venter (right) with Michael Janich on his visit in Hong Kong in December 2004 John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. ...
Cristae are the infoldings of the inner membrane of a mitochondrion. ...
Chromosomal crossover is the process by which two chromosomes, paired up during Prophase I of meiosis, exchange some distal portion of their DNA. Crossover occurs when two chromosomes, normally two homologous instances of the same chromosome, break and then reconnect but to the different end piece. ...
Cryptozoology is the study of rumored or mythological animals that are presumed to exist, but for which conclusive proof does not yet exist; or are generally considered extinct, but occasionally reported. ...
CT apparatus in a hospital Computed axial tomography (CAT), computer-assisted tomography, computed tomography, CT, or body section roentgenography is the process of using digital processing to generate a three-dimensional image of the internals of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around...
The C-terminal end refers to the extremity of a protein or polypeptide terminated by an amino acid with a free carboxyl group (COOH). ...
Look up Culture on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikinews has news related to this article: Culture and entertainment Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Cultural Development in Antiquity Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Culture and Civilization in Modern Times Classificatory system for cultures and civilizations, by Dr. Sam Vaknin...
The first stage of the photosynthetic system is the light-dependent reaction, which converts solar energy into chemical energy. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Cytoplasm is a homogeneous, generally clear jelly-like material that fills cells. ...
The cytoskeleton is a cellular scaffolding or skeleton contained, as all other organelles, within the cytoplasm. ...
ÃThe cytosol (as opposed fatty cytoplasm, which also includes the organelles) is the internal fluid of the cell, and a large part of cell metabolism occurs here. ...
A cytotoxic (or TC) T cell is a T cell (a type of white blood cell) which has on its surface antigen receptors that can bind to fragments of antigens displayed by the Class I MHC molecules of virus infected somatic cells and tumor cells. ...
D decarboxylation reaction - defective interfering particle - denaturation - dendrite - dendritic cell - dengue fever - depolarization - developmental biology - diabetes - dialysis - digestion - digital organism - diffusion - dimer - diploid - disulfide bridge - DNA - DNA replication - DNA sequence - DNA virus - double helix - Down syndrome - Drosophila - drugs - dynein A carboxyl or carboxylic group is a functional group consisting of a carbon atom doubly bonded to an oxygen atom and single-bonded to a hydroxyl (-OH) group. ...
Defective interfering particles (DIPs) are virus particles that are missing part or all of their genome. ...
Denaturation is a structural change in biomolecules such as nucleic acids and proteins, usually caused by heat, acids, bases, detergents, or certain chemicals such as urea. ...
(The term dendrite may also refer to the metallurgical dendrite. ...
Dendritic cells (DC) are immune cells and form part of the mammal immune system. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, with a geographical spread similar to malaria. ...
In biology, depolarization is the event a cell undergoes when its membrane potential grows more positive with respect to the extracellular solution. ...
Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. ...
This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In medicine, renal dialysis is a method for removing waste such as urea from the blood when the kidneys are incapable of this (i. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Digestion is the process whereby a biological entity processes a substance, in order to chemically convert the substance into nutrients. ...
A digital organism is a self-replicating computer program that mutates and evolves. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Diffusion, being the spontaneous spreading of matter (particles), heat, or momentum, is one type of transport phenomena. ...
Sucrose, or common table sugar, is composed of glucose and fructose. ...
Diploid (meaning double in Greek) cells have two copies (homologs) of each chromosome (both sex- and non-sex determining chromosomes), usually one from the mother and one from the father. ...
A disulfide bond (SS-bond), also called a disulfide bridge, is a strong covalent bond between two sulfhydryl groups. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and most viruses). ...
DNA replication. ...
part of a DNA sequence A DNA sequence (sometimes genetic sequence) is a succession of letters representing the primary structure of a real or hypothetical DNA molecule or strand, The possible letters are A, C, G, and T, representing the four nucleotide subunits of a DNA strand (adenine, cytosine, guanine...
A DNA virus is a virus that has DNA as its genetic material and does not use an RNA intermediate during replication. ...
The Double-Helix are an alien race in the Wing Commander science fiction series. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 dorsal view Drosophila melanogaster (Black-bellied Dew-lover) a dipteran (two-winged) insect, is the species of fruit fly that is commonly used in genetic experiments; it is among the most important model organisms. ...
Many drugs are provided in tablet form. ...
Dynein is a class of protein found in biological cells and is involved in their reproduction. ...
E E. coli - ebola - Ecdysone - ecology - ecological genetics - ectotherm - Edward Jenner - Edward's Syndrome - electromagnetic energy - electron transport chain - electrophoresis - electrophysiology - embryo - embryonal development - Emerson effect - Emmer group - endergonic reaction - endodermis - endomembrane system - endoplasmic reticulum - endosymbiont - endosymbiosis - endosymbiotic theory - endotherm - energy trap - Engelmann effect - enhancer - entomology - enzyme - epidermis - epigenetics - equilibrium - Ernst Haeckel - ethanol - eubacteria - eugenics - eukaryote - evolution - evolutionary biology - evolutionary developmental biology - evolutionary tree - Ewens's sampling formula - excretion - exergonic reaction - exon - experimental evolution - expressed sequence tag (EST) - extinction - eye Binomial name Escherichia coli T. Escherich, 1885 Escherichia coli (usually abbreviated to E. coli) is one of the main species of bacteria that live in the lower intestines of warm-blooded animals (including birds and mammals) and are necessary for the proper digestion of food. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Species Ivory Coast ebolavirus Reston ebolavirus Sudan ebolavirus Zaire virus Ebola hemorrhagic fever (alternatively Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever, EHF, or just Ebola) is a very rare, but severe, mostly fatal infectious disease occurring in humans and other primates, caused by the Ebola virus. ...
Ecdysone is a prohormone of the major insect moulting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone. ...
Jump to: navigation, search (Ecology is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for the natural environment. ...
Ecological genetics is the study of genetics (itself a field of biology) from an ecological perspective. ...
Cold-blooded organisms, more technically known as poikilothermic, are animals that have no internal metabolic mechanism for regulating their body temperatures. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Edward Jenner (May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823) was an English country doctor practicing in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, famous for his work introducing the Smallpox vaccine. ...
Trisomy 18 or Edwards Syndrome, is the second most common trisomy after Downs Syndrome. ...
Electrical energy or Electromagnetic energy is a form of energy present in any electric field or magnetic field, or in any volume containing electromagnetic radiation. ...
The electron transfer chain (also called the electron transport chain, or simply electron transport), is a series of protein complexers and lipid messengers spanning the inner mitochondrial membrane that accepts electrons from electron donors such as NADH or succinate, shuttles these electrons from within the mitochondrial matrix across the inner...
Electrophoresis is the movement of an electrically charged body under the influence of an electric field. ...
This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Embryos (and one tadpole) of the wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa). ...
Morphogenesis (from the Greek morphê shape and genesis creation) is one of three fundamental aspects of developmental biology along with the control of cell growth and cellular differentiation. ...
Jump to: navigation, search An endergonic reaction is a chemical reaction in which the change in free energy is positive. ...
Endodermis is the bottom layer of skin. ...
The endomembrane system is the system of internal membranes within eukaryotic cells that divide the cell into functional and structural compartments, or organelles. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The endoplasmic reticulum or ER (endoplasmic means within the cytoplasm, reticulum means little net) is an organelle found in all eukaryotic cells. ...
Jump to: navigation, search An endosymbiont is any organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism, i. ...
An endosymbiont (also known as intracellular symbiont) is any organism that lives within cells of another organism, i. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are organelles of eukaryotic cells. ...
A warm-blooded (homeothermic) animal is one that can keep its core body temperature at a nearly constant level regardless of the temperature of the surrounding environment (that is, to maintain thermal homeostasis) . This can involve not only the ability to generate heat, but also the ability to cool down...
In genetics, an enhancer is a short region of DNA which can be bound with proteins (namely, the trans-acting factors, much like a set of transcription factors) to enhance transcription levels of genes (hence the name) in a gene-cluster. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Entomology is the scientific study of insects. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Ribbon diagram of the catalytically perfect enzyme TIM. Factor D enzyme crystal prevents the immune system from inappropriately running out of control. ...
Epidermis could refer to: In plants, the outermost layer of cells covering the leaves and young parts of a plant, see plant dermal tissue system. ...
The term epigenetics has over time been used in various senses, in part because the Greek prefix epi- has at least six meanings in English (including on, after and in addition), but also because various theories of epigenetic development, inheritance, and evolution have been proposed (see Historical notes below). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Equilibrium or balance is any of a number of related phenomena in the natural and social sciences. ...
Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 - August 8, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was a German biologist and philosopher who popularized Charles Darwins work in Germany. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, is an flammable, colorless chemical compound, one of the alcohols that is most often found in alcoholic beverages. ...
Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria is also the fictional name of a warring nation under Benzino Napaloni as dictator, in the 1940 film The Great Dictator...
Jump to: navigation, search Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Kingdoms Animalia - Animals Fungi Plantae - Plants Protista A eukaryote (also spelled eucaryote) is an organism with complex cells, in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution by natural selection. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Evolutionary biology is a subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change over time, i. ...
Evolutionary developmental biology (evolution of development or informally, evo-devo) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship between organisms and how developmental processes evolved. ...
The evolutionary tree of living things is currently supposed to run something along the lines of that listed below. ...
In population genetics, Ewenss sampling formula, introduced by Warren Ewens, states that under certain conditions (specified below), if a random sample of n gametes is taken from a population and classified according to the gene at a particular locus then the probability that there are a1 alleles represented once...
Jump to: navigation, search Excretion is the biological process by which an organism chemically separates waste products from its body. ...
An exergonic reaction is a chemical reaction where the variation of free energy is negative. ...
Exons are the regions of DNA within a gene that are not spliced out from the transcribed RNA and are retained in the final messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In evolutionary biology, the field of experimental evolution is concerned with testing the theory of evolution in controlled experiments. ...
An expressed sequence tag or EST is a short sub-sequence of a protein-coding DNA sequence. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of taxons. ...
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F facilitated diffusion - FAD - FADH - FADH2 - feedback inhibition - Fehling solution - fermentation - Fick's law of diffusion - fitness - fitness landscape - flagellum - flavine - flaviviridae - fluid mosaic model - foot and mouth disease - fossil - Francis Crick - Francis Galton - free energy - fungi Jump to: navigation, search Facilitated diffusion (facilitated transport) is a process of passive transport (diffusion) via which molecules diffuse across membranes, with the help of transport proteins (mediated transport). ...
A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically. ...
Riboflavin Flavin is a tricyclic heteronuclear organic ring whose biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. ...
Flavin is also the name of a commune in the Aveyron département, in France Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), upper, reduced FAD (FADH2), lower Flavin is a tricyclic heteronuclear organic ring whose biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. ...
In cybernetics and control theory, feedback is a process whereby some proportion or in general, function, of the output signal of a system is passed (fed back) to the input. ...
Fehlings solution is a solution used to detect aldehyde functional groups. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In its strictest sense, fermentation (formerly called zymnosis) is the anaerobic metabolic breakdown of a nutrient molecule, such as glucose, without net oxidation. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Ficks laws of diffusion describe diffusion, and define the diffusion coefficient D. // History Ficks laws of diffusion were derived by Adolf Fick in the year 1855. ...
Fitness (often denoted in population genetics models) is a central concept in evolutionary theory. ...
In evolutionary biology, fitness landscapes or adaptive landscapes are used to visualize the relationship between genotypes (or phenotypes) and replicatory success. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a whip-like organelle that many unicellular organisms, and some multicellular ones, use to move about. ...
Riboflavin Flavin is a tricyclic heteronuclear organic ring whose biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. ...
Genera Flavivirus Pestivirus Hepacivirus The Flaviviridae are a family of viruses that infect mammals. ...
Drawing of a cell membrane A component of every biological cell, the cell membrane (or plasma membrane) is a thin and structured bilayer of phospholipid and protein molecules that encapsulate the cell. ...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A fossil Ammonite Fossils are the mineralized remains of animals or plants or other traces such as footprints. ...
Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co- discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, for which he, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded...
Jump to: navigation, search Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911) Victorian polymath, British anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, statistician, and half-cousin of Charles Darwin. ...
In thermodynamics, free energy is a measure of the amount of work that can be extracted from a system. ...
Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota The Fungi (singular: fungus) are a large group of organisms ranked as a kingdom within the Domain Eukaryota. ...
G G3P - gastrula - gel electrophoresis - gene - genetic drift - gene duplication - gene pool - genetic code - genetic fingerprint - genetic recombination - genetics - gene regulatory network - gene therapy - genome - genome project - genomics - genotype - George W. Beadle - glucose - glycolipid - glycolysis - glycome - glycomics - glycoprotein - glycoprotein - Gobind Khorana - Golgi apparatus - gradient - grana - gravitropism - Gregor Mendel - growth curve - Guthrie test Guanosine triphosphate (GTP) is also known as guanosine-5-triphosphate, G3P, and 9-ß-D-ribofuranosylguanine-5-triphosphate (or, equivalently, 9-ß-D-ribofuranosyl-2-amino-6-oxo-purine-5-triphosphate). ...
1 - blastula, 2 - gastrula; orange - ectoderm, red - endoderm. ...
Jump to: navigation, search SDS-PAGE autoradiography DNA agarose gel Gel electrophoresis is a group of techniques used by scientists to separate molecules based on physical characteristics such as size, shape, or isoelectric point. ...
Jump to: navigation, search This stylistic schematic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Genetic drift is a contributing factor in biological evolution, in which traits which do not affect reproductive fitness change in a population over time. ...
Schematic of a region of a chromosome before and after a duplication event Gene duplication occurs when an error in DNA replication leads to the duplication of a region of DNA containing a (generally functional) gene. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The gene pool of a species or a population is the complete set of unique alleles that would be found by inspecting the genetic material of every living member of that species or population. ...
Jump to: navigation, search RNA codons. ...
Genetic fingerprinting or DNA testing is a technique to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Genetic recombination is the transmission-genetic process by which the combinations of alleles observed at different loci (plural of locus) in two parental individuals become shuffled in offspring individuals. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. ...
A gene regulatory network (also called a GRN or genetic regulatory network) is a collection of DNA segments in a cell which interact with each other and with other substances in the cell, thereby governing the rates at which genes in the network are transcribed into mRNA. // Overview Genes can...
Jump to: navigation, search Gene therapy using an Adenovirus vector. ...
In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). ...
Genome projects are scientific endeavours that aim to map the genome of a living being or of a species (be it an animal, a plant, a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a virus), that is, the complete set of genes caried by this living being or virus. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Genomics is the study of an organisms genome and the use of the genes. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The genotype is the specific genetic makeup (the specific genome) of an individual, usually in the form of DNA. It codes for the phenotype of that individual. ...
Beadle won a Nobel Prize in 1958 George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 - June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Glucose (Glc), a simple monosaccharide sugar, is one of the most important carbohydrates and is used as a source of energy in animals and plants. ...
Glycolipids are carbohydrate-attached lipids. ...
Glycolysis is a term referring to a series of biochemical reactions by which a molecule of glucose is oxidized to two molecules of pyruvic acid. ...
The glycome is the collective identity of the entirety of carbohydrates in an organism. ...
Glycomics, or glycobiology is a discipline of biology that deals with the structure and function of oligosaccharides (chains of sugars). ...
A glycoprotein is a macromolecule composed of a protein and a carbohydrate (a sugar). ...
A glycoprotein is a macromolecule composed of a protein and a carbohydrate (a sugar). ...
Har Gobind Khorana (born January 9, 1922) is a molecular biologist. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In cell biology, the Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex, or dictyosome is an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells, including those of plants, animals, and fungi. ...
In the above two images, the scalar field is in black and white, black representing higher values, and its corresponding gradient is represented by blue arrows. ...
A granum (plural grana) is a stack of thylakoids in the chloroplast, an organelle found in plants and eukaryotic algae where photosynthesis takes place. ...
Gravitropism is movement of a plant based on gravity. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel (July 22, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk who is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. ...
Figure 1: A bi-phasic bacterial growth curve. ...
The Guthrie test is a series of medical tests performed on newborns to detect several metabolic diseases. ...
H habitat - HACEK organism - halobacteria - haploid - Hardy-Weinberg principle - heart - Hela cell - helper T cell - Hepadnaviridae - hepatitis B - herbivore - hermaphrodite - herpetology - Hershey-Chase experiment - heterotroph - heterozygote - Hfr cell - Hill reaction - His tag - histone - homeobox - homeostasis - homoplasy - homozygote - homunculus - hormone - hormone - host - household gene - human - Human Genome Project - humoral immunity - hybridization - hydrolysis - hydrolytic enzyme - hyperpolarization Habitat (from the Latin for it inhabits) is the place where a particular species lives and grows. ...
A HACEK organism is one of a set of slow-growing Gram negative bacteria that form a normal part of the human flora. ...
Genera Haloarcula Halobacterium Halobaculum Halococcus Haloferax Halogeometricum Halorubrum Haloterrigena Natrialba Natrinema Natronobacterium Natronococcus Natronomonas Natronorubrum The halobacteria are a family of archaea, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. ...
Haploid (meaning simple in Greek) cells have only one copy of each chromosome. ...
Hardy–Weinberg principle for two alleles: the horizontal axis shows the two allele frequencies p and q, the vertical axis shows the genotype frequencies and the three possible genotypes are represented by the different glyphs The Hardy–Weinberg principle (HWP) (also Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE), or Hardy–Weinberg law) states...
Jump to: navigation, search The heart and lungs (from an older edition of Grays Anatomy) The heart (Latin cor) is a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. ...
Hela is also the German name for Hel, Poland and the cruiser SMS Hela In biological and medical research, a HeLa cell is a cell which is derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died from the cancer in 1951, and circulated (without Lacks...
A helper (or TH) T cell is a T cell (a type of white blood cell) which has on its surface antigen receptors that can bind to fragments of antigens displayed by the Class II MHC molecules found on professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs). ...
Genera Orthohepadnavirus Avihepadnavirus Hepadnaviruses are the viruses in the family Hepadnaviridae. ...
Originally known as serum hepatitis, Hepatitis B has only been recognized as such since World War II, and has caused current epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa. ...
A deer and two fawns feeding on some foliage In zoology, an herbivore is an animal that is adapted to eat primarily plant matter (rather than meat). ...
Jump to: navigation, search The 1st-century BC sculpture The Reclining Hermaphrodite, in the Museo Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme in Rome In zoology, a hermaphrodite is an organism of a species whose members possess both male and female sexual organs during their lives. ...
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians, including their classification, ecology, behavior, physiology, anatomy, and paleontology. ...
Jump to: navigation, search ÕThe Hershey-Chase experiment was a series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase that identified DNA to be the genetic material of phages and, ultimately, of all organisms. ...
A heterotroph (Greek heteron = (an)other and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that requires organic substrates to get its carbon for growth and development. ...
Heterozygote cells are diploid or polyploid and have different alleles at a locus (position) on homologous chromosomes. ...
A hfr cell (also called hfr strain) is a bacterium with a conjugative plasmid (often F) integrated into its genomic DNA. Hfr is the abbreviation for high frequency recombination. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search In biology, histones are the chief proteins of chromatin. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A homeobox is a stretch of DNA sequence found in genes involved in the regulation of the development (morphogenesis) of animals, fungi and plants. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Homeostasis or homoeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment so as to maintain a stable condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms. ...
In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution describes the process whereby organisms not closely related independently acquire similar characteristics while evolving in separate and sometimes varying ecosystems. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A homozygotes cells are diploid or polyploid and have the same alleles at a locus (position) on homologous chromosomes. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Hartsoekers homunculus The concept of a homunculus (Latin for little man, sometimes spelled homonculus) is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A hormone (from Greek horman - to set in motion) is a chemical messenger from one cell (or group of cells) to another. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A hormone (from Greek horman - to set in motion) is a chemical messenger from one cell (or group of cells) to another. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens For other uses, see Human (disambiguation). ...
The Human Genome Project (HGP) endeavored to map the human genome down to the nucleotide (or base pair) level and to identify all the genes present in it. ...
Humoral immunity is mediated by secreted antibodies, produced in the cells of the B lymphocyte lineage (B cell). ...
In genetics, hybridisation is the process of mixing different species or varieties of organisms. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Hydrolysis is a chemical process in which a molecule is cleaved into two parts by the addition of a molecule of water. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Hydrolytic enzymes break down protein, carbohydrate, and fat molecules into their simplest units. ...
Hyperpolarization has several meanings: In biology, hyperpolarization occurs when a cells membrane potential dips below its resting level. ...
I ichthyology - immune cell - immune system - immunology - inducibility - infertility - inner matrix - insectivores - insulin - intermediate filament - intermembrane space - interphase - intron - ion channel - isoenzyme Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. ...
White Blood Cells is also the name of a White Stripes album. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The immune system is the system of specialised cells and organs that protect an organism from outside biological influences. ...
Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. ...
Infertility is the inability to naturally conceive a child or the inability to carry a pregnancy to term. ...
Any organism with a diet that consists chiefly of insects and similar small creatures is an insectivore. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The structure of insulin Red: carbon; green: oxygen; blue: nitrogen; pink: sulfur. ...
Intermediate filaments are one component of the cytoskeleton - important structural components of living cells. ...
The intermembrane space is the region between the inner membrane and the outer membrane of a mitochondrion or a chloroplast. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Interphase is a phase of the cell cycle, defined only by the absence of cell division. ...
Diagram of the location of introns and exons within a gene. ...
Another, unrelated ion channeling process is part of ion implantation. ...
Isozymes, (or isoenzymes) are isoforms (closely related variants) of enzymes. ...
J James Watson - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - joint James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ...
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a major 19th century French naturalist, who was one of the first to use the term biology in its mod |
