Life Science Glossary

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

Anatomy
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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
adenine
Alanine
allelic exclusion
alternation of generations
anabolic
animal breeding
antagonistic muscles
anti-inflammatory cytokines
apoplast
area postrema
artificial selection
astrocytosis
autozygosity
balanced polymorphism
bidirectional promoters
binomial expansion
biorhythms
blastocyst
boom and bust cycle
Brain electrical activity mapping
Branched DNA (bDNA) Assay
breakage-fusion-bridge cycle
breeding value
bundle-sheath cell
cAMP
carbohydrase
carbohydrate
cardiac muscle cell
Casparian strip
cellular immune response
cellular respiration
centrosome
cerebral lupus
character
chemiosmosis
chiral compound
chromoplast
chromosomal mutation
chromosome jumping
chromosome marker
chromosome theory of inheritance
chromosome walking
circular permutation
cis-trans complementation test
Cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence
clonal deletion
codominant allele
coefficient of coincidence
coligative properties
combined gas law
combustion
competence factor
complementation group
condensation
conditional-lethal mutation
conservative replication
continuous variation
convergent evolution
cotransduction
coupled reaction
Cross-pollination
cytoplasmic inheritance
daltons law of partial pressures
Deionized Water
deletion chromosome
Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)
Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC)
Denhardt's solution
density
deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate
desert
detrivore
deuterostomes
Diabetes Insipidous
Direct fluorescent antibody test (DFA)
discontinuous variation
dissolve
dominant phenotype
Drosophila melanogaster
electron carrier
Electron-nuclear double resonance
endothermic reaction
energy
epigenesis
equilibrium constant (Keq)
evolution
exon shuffling
experimental design
Extinction
feasibility study
Fenton reaction
fitness (W)
flower
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
force
forebrain
founder effect
frequency histogram
functional alleles
gastric acid
gene activation
gene mutation
gene pair
Gene translocation
genetic variance
genomic DNA
germination
gliosis
glycoprotein
Harada-Mori culture
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
heat of reaction
heteroduplex DNA
histogram
Hybridization Protection Assay (HPA)
hydronium ion
Hyperpolarisation
ideal gas law
Identical twin
illegitimate recombination
independent assortment
inducer
inhibitor constant
innate behavior
integral proteins
interkinesis
interrupted mating
intervertebral disc space
intrachromosomal recombination
invertebrate
Iodine
Ion-channel-linked receptors
isoenzymes
isokinetic dynamometer
K antigen
lateral inhibition
law
law of definite proportions
law of mass action
lethal-equivalent alleles
Ligase chain reaction (LCR)
lymphopenia
Lysosome
Lytic
mass-action ratio
May-Thurner Syndrome
mean fitness of the population W(bar)
median eminence
membrane
meroblastic cleavage
metabolic
metafemale
metaloid
Micronuclei
mode
monoprotic acid
MTHFR
mutation
N-end rule
negative control
NF-kappa B (NF-KB)
nonconformity
nucleoid
nucleoplasm
nucleotide pair
Oncogenesis
order of operation
osmolarity
oxidation
parasite
pBR 322
percent concentration
percent yield
peripheral membrane protein
Pest sequence
phagocytosis
Phosphate group
photoautotroph
photoheterotroph
phyletic gradualism
plastid
Pleiotrophy
pleiotropic mutation
polar
Poly(A) polymerase
polycistronic
polygenic inheritance
position-effect variegation
positive control
potential energy
precipitate
Pribnow box
proton acceptor
pseudoallele
pseudodominance
pull down assays
pulse-chase experiment
Qualitative
quantitative
R group
recessive phenotype
replication
resolution
Rhizoids
RNA replicase
RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase
Sanger sequencing
scale
segregation distortion
selection differential
selective mutation
serotype
sex
sexual selection
shotgun technique
signal hypothesis
Site-directed mutagenesis
solvent
stem cell
Stokes' radius
strain
supercoiling
synthetic lethal screening
synthetic medium
tandem duplication
Taq polymerase
target theory
targeted gene knockout
Tay-Sach's disease
temperature-sensitive mutant
titration curve
Transcription Mediated Amplification (TMA)
transfection
transgenic organism
transition mutation
Trihybrid cross
two-point cross
Van der Waals dispersion force
vesicle
vestigial
WD40 repeat
Y chromosome

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