The Science A-Z

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   TFScientistposted 12 years ago

   
   I will start it off:
   A is for Atmosphere

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      Lovely 7posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Amino acid
      Bacteria
      Chromosome
      DNA
      Embryo
      Flagella
      Gene
      Hormone
      Immunity
      Jaundice
      Karyotype
      Lysozyme
      Mutation
      Natural Selection
      Ovule
      Plasmid
      Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL)
      RNA
      Spore
      Telomere
      Uracil
      Virus
      Watson strand
      Xeroderma pigmentosum
      Yeast Artificial Chromosome (YAC)
      Zygote

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         TFScientistposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Impressive!

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   bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

   B is for Biochemistry

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   Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

   C is for Calmodulin  (binds calcium  - another C)

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   leahleflerposted 12 years ago

   D is for Dextrose.

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   bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

   E is for evolution.

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   diplessposted 12 years ago

   F is for Fisics oooops that's not right F is for fluorine

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   Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

   G is for Glutamate

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   bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

   H is for Hadrosaur.

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   couturepopcafeposted 12 years ago

   I - Ideoplasm:  a hypothetical structural unit of germ plasm.
   
   (It's a good idea to add the definition so we can all learn something!)

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    OK, sounds good.
    
    Hadrosaurs are the cattle of the dinosaur world. They are better known as the duck-billed dinosaurs.
    
    J is for Java Man
    
    Java man is the name for the fossils of human remains found in Java, of course.
    It may have evolved from Homo Erectus.

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    couturepopcafeposted 12 years ago

    K - Krypton - A whitish inert gaseous element used in gas discharge lamps.  Atomic #36, atomic weight 83.8, melting point -156.6C, boiling point -152.3C, density 3.73 grams per liter

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    leahleflerposted 12 years ago

    L is for Legionella, the gram negative bacterium responsible for Legionnaire's Disease.

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    TFScientistposted 12 years ago

    M is for mitosis and meiosis - the two types of nuclear division

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    N is for nanotechnology.
    
    Instead of taking a piece of material and grinding it down to parts the size of microns, nanotech attempts to assemble materials from the ground up, atom by atom, thus building substances with incredible integrity.
    
    The number of applications for this upcoming technology appears to be infinite.

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       couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Wow!!!!!
       
       O - Opium: Strongly addictive drug produced from the dried juice of unripe poppy pods.  Contains alkaloids such as morphine, nicotine, codiene, and paperavine.

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          lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          P for plasma (the blood fluid and not stars )

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    couturepopcafeposted 12 years ago

    Oh, goody, I get Q.
    
    Q - Quantum Liquid - (Even though this may fall under 'Math').
    
    A fluid exhibiting thermal, conductive or kinetic behavior attributable to the quantum statistics obeyed by the particles of the fluid.

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    OK, I had to look that one up. Pretty freaky.
    
    Quantum liquid is a state (ie gas, liquid , solid) where matter at extremely high pressures and low temperatures cause the electrons to condense. And this enables electricity to flow without any voltage?
    
    Thank you for that. Now I have something to think about for the rest of the day.

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       couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I know.  I was tempted to put a head scratching 'Huh?' at the end.

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    Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

    R is for Red Blood Cell

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    Greek Oneposted 12 years ago

    Sexology

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       couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       The study of human sexual behavior.  (Lest anyone thinks you jest.)

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          Eranofuposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          He is jesting but in a scientific way.

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    couturepopcafeposted 12 years ago

    T - Thigmotaxis: movement of an organism in response to a direct tactile stimulus. 
    
    It can be said that what occurs during 'S' may be the direct result of 'T'

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    Greek Oneposted 12 years ago

    Urology

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    Greek Oneposted 12 years ago

    (i confine my scientific terms to the middle portion of the human body)

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    Greek Oneposted 12 years ago

    .and with that...
    
    "Vulva"

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    leahleflerposted 12 years ago

    Funny, the first thought that came to my mind was "vasectomy."

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    leahleflerposted 12 years ago

    West Nile Virus. A lovely little retrovirus that can cause a febrile syndrome or encephalitis (severe form).
    
    Almost designed an ELISA kit for it, but the market research showed we wouldn't sell enough to make it worth it. Bummer.

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    X is for x-rays.
    
    Not quite as lethal as gamma rays but you still better get behind some lead.

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    AliciaCposted 12 years ago

    Y is for Yttrium, element 39 in the periodic table. It could also stand for yellow bone marrow or for Y chromosome.

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    Z is for zoology.
    
    the study of animals.
    
    I´ll start again.
    
    A is for australopithicus afarensis.
    
    The beginning of bipedalism and the closest relative of the australopithicines to Homo.

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    leahleflerposted 12 years ago

    B is for blastocyst, an early stage in human embryo development,when the cells form a hollow sphere-like structure. At this stage, the cells are pluripotent, which means they can form any tissue in the human body.

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       couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Awesome A & B!
       
       C - Cerebrospinal fluid: serumlike fluid that bathes the lateral ventricles of the brain and the cavity of the spinal cord. 
       
       One of the end results of B - blastocyst.

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       couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Awesome A & B!
       
       C - Cerebrospinal fluid: serumlike fluid that bathes the lateral ventricles of the brain and the cavity of the spinal cord. 
       
       One of the end results of B - blastocyst.

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    D is for Deoxyribonucleic acid.
    
    no explanation necessary

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    Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

    E is for Endoplasmic Reticulum

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    diplessposted 12 years ago

    F is for Fulcrum
    
    which is the support about which a lever pivots, maybe not quite 'science' enough

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       TFScientistposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       bending the rules again, dipless? I expect more from you

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          diplessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Cheeky bugger :p you like to bend them rules too

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    leahleflerposted 12 years ago

    Oh, goody! I get G!
    
    Golgi Apparatus (a cellular organelle responsible for absorbing vesicles from the rough endoplasmic reticulum).

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    TFScientistposted 12 years ago

    H is for haemoglobin - a globular protein that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide in red blood cells. Also makes your blood look that lovely attractive red

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    TFScientistposted 12 years ago

    I is for isobologram - an analytical tool for determining combination effects of drugs: additive, antagonistic or synergistic

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    Jesus was a hippoposted 12 years ago

    J is for jelly beans in a test tube

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    K is for Kinetodelusion.
    A mental disease that expresses itself in an animated and often physical form of deluded behavior.
    Often seen in people walking around carrying jelly beans in test tubes.

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    diplessposted 12 years ago

    L is for Lithosphere which is the rigid outermost shell of a rocky planet.

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    bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years ago

    M is for Mitochondria.
    
    Symbiotic organisms that live within our cells. They produce the energy that fuels our muscles.

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    RJ68posted 12 years ago

    N is for smal amounts of nitrate needed in your body.

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    diplessposted 12 years ago

    Ossification,or osteogenesis, is the process of laying down new bone material by cells called osteoblasts
    
    A Lot of O's there :p

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    Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

    P is for "proneural" - can refer to proneural genes or proneural cells. 
    
    These are either genes involved in neurogenesis or clusters of cells destined to become neurons or other neural cells.

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    TFScientistposted 12 years ago

    Q is for Quark - an elementary particle; one of the building blocks of matter

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    diplessposted 12 years ago

    R is for "Refraction" Which is the bending of a wave due to a chance in it's speed.

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    TFScientistposted 12 years ago

    S is for Senescence - the process of cellular ageing, perhaps linked to telomere length (and no I haven't stolen T)

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    Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

    T is for Tubulin  (class of proteins that makes up mircrotubules...microtubules are the spindles that help pull chromosomes apart during division and also the tubules that protein cargo is transported on throughout the cell)

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    AliciaCposted 12 years ago

    U is for uracil, a nitrogenous base that is present in RNA but not in DNA.

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    RJ68posted 12 years ago

    V is for virus - a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms

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    Silwenposted 12 years ago

    W - watt (unit of power).

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    TFScientistposted 12 years ago

    X is for Xenobiotic - a drug or chemical substance that is usually foreign to the organism's body

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    Kris Heeterposted 12 years ago

    Y is for "yellow+"  - one of the most common genetic markers in Drosophila  (codes for body color).  Drosophila (fruit flies) is one of the most commonly studied organisms for disease biology.   The lowly fruit fly can get cancer and Alzheimer's just like we do:)

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