Apoptosis
... (Bcl-Xl and Bcl-2) members of the Bcl-2
family is compromised. This balance is the proportion ... permeable, aparently these members of the Bcl-2
family have a pore-forming domain. This results in the ... the articles on caspases and the Bcl-2 protein
family ).
The whole process requires energy and a ...
Charles Darwin
... , England , on 12 February 1809 at the
family home, The Mount House . He was the fifth of six ... of Erasmus Darwin , and of Josiah Wedgwood , a
family of the Unitarian church. See also Darwin–Wedgwood
family .
His mother died when he was only eight and ...
Morphogenesis
... products derived from members of the "gap"
family of developmental control genes. Hunchback , ... of this page. The gap genes are part of a larger
family called the segmentation genes . These genes ... for by segmentation genes regulate yet another
family of developmental control genes, the homeotic ...
Foot and mouth disease
... disease is caused by an Aphthovirus of the viral
family Picornaviridae . The members of this
family are small (25-30 nm), nonenveloped icosahedral ... disease is caused by a different virus of the
family Picornaviridae, namely, an Enterovirus called ...
Homeobox
... homeobox genes and form the homeobox gene
family .
A homeobox is about 180 base pairs long; it ... Pit-1 is a member of the POU DNA-binding domain
family of transcription factors so it can bind to DNA ... yeasts and plants. This suggests that this gene
family evolved very early and that the basic mechanisms ...
Morphogenesis
... products derived from members of the "gap"
family of developmental control genes. Hunchback , ... of this page. The gap genes are part of a larger
family called the segmentation genes . These genes ... for by segmentation genes regulate yet another
family of developmental control genes, the homeotic ...
Virus classification
... cellular organisms:
Order ( -virales )
family ( -viridae )
Subfamily ( -virinae )
Genus ... Caudovirales (tailed bacteriophages ).
family Myoviridae - e.g. Enterobacteria phage T4
family Podoviridae
...
Ebola
... When Lokela returned home from the hospital and died, the women of his
family conducted a traditional African funeral for him. In preparation for this ... and excreta from his body with their bare hands. Most of the women in his
family died soon afterwards (Draper 19).
Meanwhile, the nurses at the hospital ...
Endoplasmic reticulum
... proteins is made possible by several ER proteins including: PDI , Hsc70
family , calnexin , calreticulin , and the peptidylpropyl isomerase
family .
Only properly folded proteins are transported from the RER to the Golgi ...
Eugenics
... began to promote eugenics. In years to come the ERO collected a mass of
family pedigrees, which concluded that those that were unfit were from ... as primary methods, Goddard favored segregation in his The Kallikak
family , Grant favored all of the above and more -- even entertaining the idea ...
Gene
... symbol maintains parallel construction in different members of a gene
family and can also be used in other species , especially the mouse .
... , Homeobox , Human Genome Project , Genomics , DNA , Protein , Gene
family
Genetic programming , Genetic algorithm
Meme , Memetics
List ...
Konrad Lorenz
... in 1973 but continued to research and publish from Altenberg (his
family home, near Vienna) and Grnau in Austria. He died on February 27 , 1989 ... There are three Konrad Lorenz Institutes in Austria; one is housed in his
family mansion at Altenberg, and another at his field station in Grnau.
Lorenz ...
Oncogene
... etc.
Cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases like the Src-family, Syk-ZAP-70
family and BTK
family of tyrosine kinases.
Regulatory GTPases , for example, the Ras ...
Endoplasmic reticulum
... proteins is made possible by several ER proteins including: PDI , Hsc70
family , calnexin , calreticulin , and the peptidylpropyl isomerase
family .
Only properly folded proteins are transported from the RER to the Golgi ...
Rudolf Steiner
... Croatia , then part of Austria-Hungary . When he was two years old, the
family moved into Burgenland , Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps .
... level, should be provided for by private and|or state scholarships that a
family could direct to the school of its choice. Steiner was a supporter of ...
Endoplasmic reticulum
... proteins is made possible by several ER proteins including: PDI , Hsc70
family , calnexin , calreticulin , and the peptidylpropyl isomerase
family .
Only properly folded proteins are transported from the RER to the Golgi ...
Endoplasmic reticulum
... proteins is made possible by several ER proteins including: PDI , Hsc70
family , calnexin , calreticulin , and the peptidylpropyl isomerase
family .
Only properly folded proteins are transported from the RER to the Golgi ...
Alfred Russel Wallace
... . He was the eighth of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell. He attended grammar school in Hertford , but left when his
family lost their remaining property. He worked for his older brother William in his surveying business, and between 1840 and 1843 spent his time ...
Avian influenza
... Infection
The causative agent is the avian influenza (AI) virus . AI viruses all belong to the influenza virus A genus of the Orthomyxoviridae
family and are negative-stranded, segmented RNA viruses .
Avian influenza spreads in the air and in manure . Wild fowl often act as resistant ...
BLAST
... searches against constantly updated databases of proteins and DNA that include most of the newly sequenced organisms.
BLAST is actually a
family of programs (all included in the blastall executable). The following are some of the programs, ranked mostly in order of importance:
...
Blood
...
Due to its importance to life, blood is associated with a large number of beliefs. One of the most basic is the use of blood as a symbol for
family relationships; to be "related by blood" is to be related by ancestry or descendance, rather than marriage. This bears closely to bloodlines , and ...
Crassulacean acid metabolism
... CAM is usually found in plants living under arid conditions, including those found in the desert (for example, cactus). It is named after the plant
family it was first discovered in, the crassulaceae .
Synopsis
Plants that are adapted to drier climates are called xerophytes . Some of these ...
Crassulacean acid metabolism
... CAM is usually found in plants living under arid conditions, including those found in the desert (for example, cactus). It is named after the plant
family it was first discovered in, the crassulaceae .
Synopsis
Plants that are adapted to drier climates are called xerophytes . Some of these ...
Cancer
... treatments (such as chemotherapy ) may have severe side-effects. In the advanced stages of cancer, many patients need extensive care, affecting
family members and friends. Palliative care solutions may include permanent or "respite" hospice nursing.
Cancer research
Cancer research is ...
Carolus Linnaeus
... as more appropriate for a clergyman on his matriculation at Lund University ; the name deriving from the lime [1] tree after which the
family farm, Linnagrd, took its name.
Linnaean taxonomy
Although taxonomists, in almost any biological field, are familiar with the work of Carolus ...
Chromatography
... Chromatography is a
family of analytical chemistry techniques for the separation of mixtures . It involves passing the sample, a mixture which contains the analyte , in ...
Cladistics
... Paraphyletic taxa are necessary for classifying earlier sections of the tree - for instance, the early vertebrates that would someday evolve into the
family Hominidae can not be placed in any other monophyletic family. They also argue that paraphyletic taxa provide information about significant changes ...
Culture
... have more money and women have more freedom. Television not only brought similar visual programming into many homes, but also influenced how and when
family members interact with each other.
Contact between cultures can result in diffusion, or on a larger scale, acculturation .
In diffusion ...
Diabetes mellitus
... at age 40 or 50 years, and sometimes occasionally thereafter. Earlier screening is recommended for those with risk factors such as obesity ,
family history of diabetes, high risk ethnicity (Hispanic [Latin American], American Indian, African American, Pacific Island, and South Asian ancestry).
...
Ploidy
... eggs: the sperm provides a second set of chromosomes when it fertilizes the egg.
Haplodiploidy is found in many species of insects from the
family Hymenoptera , particularly ants , bees , and wasps . It increases the significance of kin selection , which may explain the eusociality of ...
Down syndrome
... crease .
Early educational intervention, screening for common problems such as thyroid functioning, medical treatment where indicated, a conducive
family environment, vocational training, etc. can improve the overall development of children with Down syndrome. On the one hand, Down syndrome shows that ...
Escherichia coli
... or display). Severity of the illness varies considerably; it can, rarely, be fatal, but is more often mild.
A "strain" of E. coli is a
family with some particular characteristics that make it recognizable from other E. coli strains, the way poodles are recognizable from other strains ...
Edward Jenner
... until the infection from inoculation had run its course, the subject was infected, and infectious, with actual smallpox. This made them a risk to any
family or acquaintances not already immune.
There was a local folk tradition amongst those who milked cows, that an infection with the so-called ' ...
Entomology
... stage of the life cycle the insect/bug is in, et cetera.
Taxonomic specialization
Many entomologists specialize in a single order or even a
family of insects, and a number of these subspecialties have their own names, derived from the scientific name of the group:
Coleopterology - beetles ...
Evolutionary developmental biology
... and timing of the genetic network, as distinct from the functioning of the individual genes in the network
The discovery of the homeotic Hox gene
family in vertebrates in the 1980s , allowed researchers in developmental biology to empirically assess the relative roles of the above two factors, ...
Evolutionary tree
... phylogeny and biodiversity
More examples
http://www.aisee.com/graph_of_the_month/jura.htm The most detailed and comprehensive
family tree of dinosaurs yet available
http://www.omne-vivum.com tree of life with lots of pictures
...
Ewens's sampling formula
... induced by a uniformly distributed random permutation . As the probability that no two of the n genes are the same approaches 1.
This
family of probability distributions enjoys the property that if after the sample of n is taken, m of the n gametes are chosen without replacement, ...
Flaviviridae
... Flavivirus
Pestivirus
Hepacivirus
The Flaviviridae are a
family of viruses that infect mammals . They include the following genera:
Genus Flavivirus (type species Yellow fever virus , others ...
Francis Galton
... mind, founder of psychometrics, the science of measuring mental faculties.
Historiometry and statistics
He was born into the Darwin-Wedgwood
family near Sparkbrook, Birmingham and was Charles Darwin 's half first cousin, his mother and Darwin's father having been children of Erasmus Darwin ...
Halobacteria
...
Haloterrigena
Natrialba
Natrinema
Natronobacterium
Natronococcus
Natronomonas
Natronorubrum
The halobacteria are a
family of archaea , found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. They are also called halophiles , though this name is also used for other ...