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biology
study of living organisms
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Photobiology is the study of the effects of light on living organisms. The field encompasses many biological phenomena, including photosynthesis, visual processing, circadian rhythms, and ultraviolet radiation effects.
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Biology dictionary A Abiotic stress. Outside (nonliving) factors which can cause harmful effects to plants, such as soil conditions, drought, extreme temperatures. Abzyme. See Catalytic antibody. Adaptive radiation.
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Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life.
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Biology Glossary search by EverythingBio.com
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biology laboratory - a laboratory for biological research
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Genomes, Molecular Biology, and Drug Discovery is based on the Seventh SmithKline Beecham International Symposium held in Cambridge, England, in March 1995.
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Biology literally means "the study of life". Biology is such a broad field, covering the minute workings of chemical machines inside our cells, to broad scale concepts of ecosystems and global climate change.
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Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = reasoned account).
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Biology for the last 30 or 40 years has primarily focused on looking at one gene or one protein at a time. And although that's gained insight into biology, it hasn't really gained any insight into how very complicated systems work.
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Biology came of age as a science when Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." But, the idea of evolution wasn't new to Darwin. Lamarck published a theory of evolution in 1809.
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Students enrolled in the class should be already familiar with most of the terms in this glossary.
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Molecular biology: The biochemical study of the genetic basis for phenotype.
Monocistronic: A form of gene organization resulting in transcription of an mRNA that contains coding sequence for a single gene or gene product.
mRNA: See messenger RNA.
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Biology page has a huge number of links, divided by subject into all areas of biology.
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A Molecular Biology Glossary
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Kimball has retired from a lifetime of teaching biology. A graduate of Harvard College, he began his teaching career at the secondary level, teaching chemistry and biology to students at Phillips Academy, an independent school in Andover, ...
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Nucleoside In molecular biology; a molecule composed of a sugar (2' deoxyribose in DNA; ribose in RNA) which is linked to a purine (adenine or guanine) or a pyrimidine (thymine (DNA), cytidine or uridine (RNA)).
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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS COMMONLY USED IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS - A method for separating nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) within a gel made of agarose in a suitable buffer under the influence of an electrical field.
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Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell; 3rd Edition, Garland Publishing Inc., New York, 1994
Colin R. Hopkins, Structure and Function of Cells, W. B. Saunders Company Ltd, Toronto, 1978
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This collection of over 1000 biological terms and definitions is available for quick reference as you use The Biology Place, Classic Edition.
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If you click on a term, you'll be linked to the page which features that term, for more in-depth information. Following the glossary is an idea of sites (topically arranged) which are related to cellular biology.
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BIOLOGY COURSE STANDARDS
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Biology the study of life
(bios = life; -logy = to study)
Bioluminescence production of light by living organisms
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biology The study of all living organisms.
bioluminescence. Method of light production by living organisms in which usually certain proteins (luciferins), in the presence of oxygen and an enzyme (luciferase), ...
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Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, U.K.
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Branch of biology dealing with the structure, function, multiplication, pathology, and life history of cells.
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Molecular biology. The study of the biochemical and mo- lecular interactions within living cells.
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central dogma The organizing principle of molecular biology: genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to protein. centromere A specialized region of a chromosome which serves as the attachment point for the mitotic or meiotic spindle.
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Free Radicals: Enzymology, Signalling and Disease Biochemical Society Symposia vol 70: Proteases and the Regulation of Biological Processes Biochemical Society Symposia vol 69: Glycogenomics: The Impact of Genomics and Informatics in Glycobiology ...
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To this end I have attempted to write the text in terms which would enable the reader to conceptualize the idea embodied in the word, without the necessity of holding advanced biochemisty and molecular biology degrees.
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Mader, Sylvia S. 2004. Human Biology, 8th edition. McGraw Hill.
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Campbell, N.A. 1996. Biology, Fourth Edition. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. Menlo Park, CA.
Chernov, Y.I. 1985. The Living Tundra. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
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Expanded Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
In the flow of information from genotype to phenotype, two steps require the copying of nucleotide sequence information into a different form.
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See also A Dictionary of Cell Biology This page has been accessed 289033 times since 8th October 1997. ¤ Top of page
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Dr. Donald Orlic, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, defines gene transfer.
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