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Tongue

...ves moving through the thin (as compared to water) medium of the air. A larynx adapted for vocalization. Full article >>> Other symptoms may include a red tongue , flushed face, and reddening of the eyes may also be symptoms of the disease. In a proportion of cases there is also involveme...

Strain

...n of organ isms that will proliferate on minimal medium (compare auxotroph). A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ... Full article >>> Two strain s of Drosophila paulistorum developed hybrid sterility of male offspring between 1958 and 1963. Artificial selection indu...

Spore

...ng rod shaped bacteria that fermet lactose in EC medium with gas production within 24h at 44.5 degrees C. Full article >>> In plant s, gametes are not produced directly. Instead meiosis produces spore s and then mitosis produces gametes . Although plant s have an additional step, ...

Ribosomes

... The initial sample of a microorganism added to a medium used to start a new culture . Full article >>> That portion of the endoplasmic reticulum that is free of ribosomes . smooth muscle A type of muscle lacking the striations of skeletal and cardiac muscle because of the uniform ...

Revertant

... appeared among senescent cells maintained in MX medium to retain introduced chromosome . These revertant clones seem to arise due to deletion s in donor chromosomes . Full article >>> making it unable to synthesize the amino acid histidine (His) from the ingredients in its cultur...

Reproduction

...ions that are required for reproduction . Defined medium A bacteria l growth medium in which all the components are known. Typically only includes the minimal growth requirements. Ful...

Recombinant clones

... clones (SacB gene product , levansucrase) using medium that contains sucrose for selection and has the ability to amplify clones using an isopropyl ... Full article >>>...

Plateau

...rticle >>> If we add fresh culture medium to the container, exponential growth resumes until a new higher plateau is reached. Evidently the growth rate (r) declines as the density of the population approaches a certain limiting value. Full article >>> Human s do not have ...

Plasma

...eins , and mineral salts. It serves as trans port medium for glucose , lipids , hormones , products of metabolism , carbon dioxide and oxygen . Full article >>> The inner leaflet of a typical mammalian plasma membrane contains 20-30% univalent PS (phosphatidylserine) and ~1% multiva...

Pathogenic

...ng rod shaped bacteria that fermet lactose in EC medium with gas production within 24h at 44.5 degrees C. A measure of bacteria mostly origin ating from guts that enter waters. Believed to be correlated with disease-causing ( pathogenic ) ... Full article >>>...

Pathogen

...ng rod shaped bacteria that fermet lactose in EC medium with gas production within 24h at 44.5 degrees C. A measure of bacteria mostly origin ating from guts that enter waters. Believed to be correlated with disease-causing ( pathogen ic ) ... Full article >>>...

Oxygen

...ed oxygen molecule s take up protons from the medium and form water (2H+ + 2e- + 1/2 O2 H2O). Full article >>> Oxygen Balance (OB%) Oxygen balance is an expression that is used to indicate the degree to which an explosive can be oxidized. Full article >>> oxygen A...

Origin

...e concentrations of dissolved ions in the external medium ... Full article >>> Diseases in which abnormal cells divide and grow unchecked. Cancer can spread from its origin al site to other parts of the body and can also be fatal if not treated adequately. explained: Listen to a detail...

Organelles

...anelles (excluding the nucleus ) and providing a medium for metabolic ... Full article >>> Structure of life Schematic of typical animal depicting the various and structures Enlarge Schematic of typical animal cell depicting the various organelles and structures ... Full article &#...

Organelle

...nelle s (excluding the nucleus ) and providing a medium for metabolic ... Full article >>> Structure of life Schematic of typical animal depicting the various and structures Enlarge Schematic of typical animal cell depicting the various organelle s and structures ... Full article ...

Organ

...e concentrations of dissolved ions in the external medium ... Full article >>> Organ isms whose individuals produce only one type of gamete ; i.e. human s (either male or female). See monoecious . Related Terms: Gamete Mature male or female reproductive cell ( sperm or ovum ) with a...

Nutrition

... microorganism that will proliferate only when the medium is supplemented with some specific substance not required by wild-type organ isms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ... Full article >>> Well, I'm a nutrition educator. I always think that education is a great a...

Liver

...sms such as bacteria or protist s into a growth medium (ocul = eye) Instar an insect or a stage in an insect's life in between two molts (instar = shape form) ... Full article >>> Hans-Peter Hauri1, O liver Nufer, Lionel Breuza, Houchaima Ben Tekaya and Lu Liang Biozentrum, Klingelberg...

Library

...tance. The trans formed bacteria are grown on a medium that contains ampicillin. Full article >>> Use of the school and county library are encouraged. Student mentors/tutors are available for assistance. Special help, makeup assignments, and labs will be handled on an individual basis. ...

Initiator tRNA

... The initial sample of a microorganism added to a medium used to start a new culture . Full article >>> involves the small ribosomal subunit binding to the 'start' codon on the m RNA , which indicates where the m RNA starts coding for the protein . In eukaryotes and archaea, the amin...

Inflorescence

...sms such as bacteria or protist s into a growth medium (ocul = eye) ... Full article >>> In those species that have more than one flower on an axis, the collection of flower s is termed an inflorescence . In this sense , care must be exercised in considering what a '' flower '' is....

Glucose

...t strain will be unable to grow on minimal salts medium with glucose as sole carbon source unless this is supplemented with the substance which is deficient in synthesis. The mutant phenotype can therefore be easily detected. Full article >>> This obligate anaerobe is capable of utili...

Gene library

...tance. The trans formed bacteria are grown on a medium that contains ampicillin. Full article >>> National Laboratory Gene Library Project: Construction of DNA Libraries from Flow-Sorted Chromosomes ... Full article >>> The gene to be knocked out is isolated from a ...

Gel

... particles form the continuous phase and the fluid medium the discontinuous phase. Full article >>> GEL SHIFT - A method by which the inter action of a nucleic acid ( DNA or RNA ) with a protein is detected. Full article >>> Gel electrophoresis : A method to analyze...

Culture

...ure s. Full article >>> A culture medium that is enriched with a particular substance to al... Growth of bacteria in a fixed volume of liquid medium in a closed vessel, with no additions or removals made during the period of incubation. Full articl...

Blotting

...ing nucleic acids or proteins from an unstable medium eg electrophoresis gel or agar plate onto nylon or nitro cellulose membrane. Full article >>> respond that since communist prices do not reflect the scarcity of the raw materials or the consumer demand for the products, one could ...

Biological tissues

...olecule s in biological tissues . In an isotropic medium (inside a glass of water for example) water molecule s naturally move randomly according to Brownian motion. Full article >>> Diffusion MRI measures the diffusion of water molecule s in biological tissues . Following an ischemic...

Bacteriophages

...within bacteria growing in radioactive culture medium will themselves be radioactive. Full article >>> bacteriophages a type of virus that infects bacteria . Infection with a bacteriophage may or may not lead to the death of the bacterium, depending on the phage and sometimes on...

Bacteria

...ng rod shaped bacteria that fermet lactose in EC medium with gas production within 24h at 44.5 degrees C. Full article >>> Aseptical without bacteria sterile under sterile conditions (a- = not without; sepsis = rotten putrid) Aster microtubules origin ating around centrioles in divi...

Anaerobic

...ng rod shaped bacteria that fermet lactose in EC medium with gas production within 24h at 44.5 degrees C. Full article >>>...

Aerobic

...ng rod shaped bacteria that fermet lactose in EC medium with gas production within 24h at 44.5 degrees C. Full article >>> citric acid cycle ( Krebs cycle or tricarboxylic acid cycle) - central metabolic pathway found in all aerobic organ isms. Oxidizes acetyl groups derived from food...

Actin

...person in theatre, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. Full article >>> Actin is a globular protein that polymerize helicaly forming actin filaments (or microfilament s), whic...