Life Science Glossary

Welcome to BioGlossary a life science glossary of over 3,700 definitions, and growing! Extensive collection in the following fields:

Anatomy
Biochemistry
Biology
Biophysics
Cell biology
Developmental biology
Ecology
Evolutionary biology
Genetics
Immunology
Molecular biology
Molecular genetics

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β galactosidase
abyssal zone
acoelomate
additive genetic variance
allelic exclusion
alternation of generations
anabolic
anabolism
antagonistic muscles
anti-inflammatory cytokines
apoplast
area postrema
artificial selection
astrocytosis
atomic mass unit
autozygosity
balanced polymorphism
bidirectional promoters
bilaterally symmetrical
biotic
blastocyst
boom and bust cycle
Branched DNA (bDNA) Assay
breakage-fusion-bridge cycle
breeding value
bundle-sheath cell
buret
C4 photosynthesis
Calcium
calcium ions
cAMP
carbohydrase
carbohydrate
cardiac muscle cell
cartilage
Casparian strip
cell culture
cellular respiration
centrosome
cerebral lupus
chemical bond
chemiosmosis
chemoautotroph
chi-square test
chiral compound
chromoplast
chromosomal mutation
chromosome jumping
chromosome marker
chromosome theory of inheritance
chromosome walking
cis and trans isomers
cis-trans complementation test
Cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence
clonal deletion
codominant allele
coefficient of coincidence
coligative properties
combined gas law
combustion
common ancestry
competence factor
condensation
conditional-lethal mutation
conservative replication
continuous variation
convergent evolution
correlative study
cotransduction
Cross-pollination
cytoplasm
cytoplasmic inheritance
daltons law of partial pressures
daughter cells
Deionized Water
deletion chromosome
Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)
Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC)
Denhardt's solution
density
deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate
desert
detrivore
deuterostomes
development
Diabetes Insipidous
Direct fluorescent antibody test (DFA)
discontinuous replication
discontinuous variation
dissolve
DNA-RNA hybridization
dominant phenotype
electron carrier
ELISA
endothermic reaction
energy
entropy
epigenesis
equilibrium
equilibrium constant (Keq)
Ethanol
ethics
evolution
exon shuffling
experimental design
Extinction
feasibility study
Fenton reaction
fitness (W)
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
force
founder effect
freeze-fracture technique
frequency histogram
functional alleles
gene activation
gene expression
gene mutation
gene pair
Gene translocation
gene variant
genetic variance
Genetically engineered organism
genomic DNA
germination
gliosis
glycoprotein
gray crescent
Harada-Mori culture
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
heat of reaction
heteroduplex DNA
heterogeneous nuclear RNA
heterozygote advantage
histogram
homeologous chromosomes
homogeneous
Hybridization Protection Assay (HPA)
hydration shell
hydronium ion
ideal gas law
Identical twin
illegitimate recombination
independent assortment
inducer
industrial melanism
inflammatory mediators
inhibitor constant
innate behavior
integral proteins
interkinesis
interrupted mating
intervertebral disc space
intravenous (IV) pump
invertebrate
Ion-channel-linked receptors
isoenzymes
isokinetic dynamometer
K antigen
krebs cycle
lac operon
lacZ
lateral inhibition
law
law of definite proportions
ligand-receptor interaction
Ligase chain reaction (LCR)
lymphopenia
Lysosome
Lytic
mass-action ratio
May-Thurner Syndrome
mean fitness of the population W(bar)
membrane
meroblastic cleavage
metabolic
metafemale
metaloid
Microbe
Micronuclei
microorganism
migration
mode
monoprotic acid
MTHFR
Mullerian mimicry
mutation
N-end rule
negative control
Nick translation
nuclear membrane
nucleoplasm
Oncogenesis
order of operation
osmolarity
oxidation
parasite
pBR 322
percent concentration
percent yield
peripheral membrane protein
phagocytosis
Phosphate group
photoautotroph
photoheterotroph
physical chemistry
plant
plasmid suicide vector
plastid
Pleiotrophy
pleiotropic mutation
polar
polarity
Poly(A) polymerase
polycistronic
Polyclonal antibodies
polygenic inheritance
population density
positive control
post-transcriptional modification
potential energy
precipitate
Pribnow box
Proteomics
pseudoallele
pseudodominance
pull down assays
pulse-chase experiment
Qualitative
R group
R plasmid
range
recessive phenotype
recombinant DNA technology
replication
resolution
RFLP mapping
Rhizoids
RNA replicase
Sanger sequencing
saturation mutagenesis
scale
segregating population
segregation distortion
selection differential
selective mutation
Sequence tagged site (STS)
serotype
sex
sexual selection
signal hypothesis
solute
solvent
Somatic cell gene therapy
somatic-cell genetics
spermatogenesis
standard error of the mean
stem cell
Stokes' radius
strain
supercoiling
surface tension
symplast
synthetic lethal screening
synthetic medium
tandem duplication
Taq polymerase
target theory
tautomeric shift
Tay-Sach's disease
temperature-sensitive mutant
totipotency
trait
Transcription Mediated Amplification (TMA)
transfection
transgenic organism
transition mutation
Trihybrid cross
two-point cross
Van der Waals dispersion force
vesicle
vestigial
Wahlund effect
WD40 repeat

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