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
I - Ideoplasm: a hypothetical structural unit of germ plasm.
(It's a good idea to add the definition so we can all learn something!)
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.
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
L is for Legionella, the gram negative bacterium responsible for Legionnaire's Disease.
M is for mitosis and meiosis - the two types of nuclear division
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.
Wow!!!!!
O - Opium: Strongly addictive drug produced from the dried juice of unripe poppy pods. Contains alkaloids such as morphine, nicotine, codiene, and paperavine.
P for plasma (the blood fluid and not stars )
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.
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.
I know. I was tempted to put a head scratching 'Huh?' at the end.
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'
(i confine my scientific terms to the middle portion of the human body)
Funny, the first thought that came to my mind was "vasectomy."
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.
X is for x-rays.
Not quite as lethal as gamma rays but you still better get behind some lead.
Y is for Yttrium, element 39 in the periodic table. It could also stand for yellow bone marrow or for Y chromosome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
D is for Deoxyribonucleic acid.
no explanation necessary
F is for Fulcrum
which is the support about which a lever pivots, maybe not quite 'science' enough
Oh, goody! I get G!
Golgi Apparatus (a cellular organelle responsible for absorbing vesicles from the rough endoplasmic reticulum).
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
I is for isobologram - an analytical tool for determining combination effects of drugs: additive, antagonistic or synergistic
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.
L is for Lithosphere which is the rigid outermost shell of a rocky planet.
M is for Mitochondria.
Symbiotic organisms that live within our cells. They produce the energy that fuels our muscles.
Ossification,or osteogenesis, is the process of laying down new bone material by cells called osteoblasts
A Lot of O's there :p
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.
Q is for Quark - an elementary particle; one of the building blocks of matter
R is for "Refraction" Which is the bending of a wave due to a chance in it's speed.
S is for Senescence - the process of cellular ageing, perhaps linked to telomere length (and no I haven't stolen T)
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)
U is for uracil, a nitrogenous base that is present in RNA but not in DNA.
V is for virus - a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms
X is for Xenobiotic - a drug or chemical substance that is usually foreign to the organism's body
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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