CZ:Core Articles/Biology
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Biochemistry
- Protein synthesis: "a certain kind of natural production (or biosynthesis) of polypeptides for protein molecules according to a nucleic acid code" [e]
- Oxidative phosphorylation: A process in which ATP is formed by coupling the transfer of electrons through a series of electron carriers to proton gradients across a biological membrane; most frequently associated mitochondria and their role in aerobic respiration. [e]
- Anaerobic respiration: Add brief definition or description
- Active site: Add brief definition or description
- ATP synthase: Add brief definition or description
- Carbohydrate: Organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; includes sugars and starches that provide energy to living organisms and form an important part of the diet of most animals. [e]
- Chemiosmosis: Add brief definition or description
- Electron transport chain: (ETC) A series of biochemical reactions that couple a chemical reaction between an electron donor and an electron acceptor to the transfer of protons across a membrane. [e]
- Enzyme kinetics: The time course of chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes. [e]
- Glycoprotein: "a protein with a carbohydrate (saccharide) group bonded to it" [e]
- Michaelis-Menten kinetics: Add brief definition or description
- Myosin: Add brief definition or description
- Protein phosphorylation: Add brief definition or description
- Polysaccharide: "a polymer consisting of multiple saccharide (carbohydrate or sugar) units bonded together as monomers, typically in the cyclic saccharide form" [e]
- Proteolysis: Add brief definition or description
- Receptor (biochemistry): Add brief definition or description
- Redox: See Oxidation-reduction [e]
- Substrate (biology): Add brief definition or description
- Vitamin: Add brief definition or description
Biography
Botany
- Xylem: Add brief definition or description
- Ethylene: "the simplest alkene (with one double bond), having the chemical formula C2H4" [e]
- Auxin: Add brief definition or description
- Calvin cycle: A metabolic cycle, discovered by Melvin Calvin, that is responsible for the reduction of carbon dioxide to sugar in the stroma of chloroplasts. [e]
- Cellulose: "Naturally-occurring polysaccharide substance found abundantly in a wide variety of plants. It is composed of β-glucopyranose units condensed together by 1,4-glycosidic linkages into polymer chains." [e]
- Chlorophyll: A green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis. [e]
- Gibberellin: Add brief definition or description
- Gravitropism: Add brief definition or description
- Phloem: Add brief definition or description
- Plasmolysis: Add brief definition or description
- Seed: Add brief definition or description
- Starch: Add brief definition or description
- Stoma: Add brief definition or description
Cell Biology
- Cell Biology: Add brief definition or description
- Phospholipid bilayer: Add brief definition or description
- Flagellum: Add brief definition or description
- Biological membrane: Add brief definition or description
- Cell wall: Add brief definition or description
- Cytoplasm: Add brief definition or description
- Cytosol: Add brief definition or description
- Endoplasmic reticulum: Add brief definition or description
- Fluid mosaic model: Add brief definition or description
- Microtubules: Add brief definition or description
- Pseudopod: Add brief definition or description
- Ribosome: Add brief definition or description
- Vacuole: Add brief definition or description
- Vesicle (biology): Add brief definition or description
Developmental Biology
- Developmental Biology: Add brief definition or description
- Calcium wave: Add brief definition or description
- Zygote: Add brief definition or description
Ecology
- Chemoautotrophic: Add brief definition or description
- Parasitism: Add brief definition or description
- Carbon cycle: Add brief definition or description
- Ecological niche: Add brief definition or description
- Fundamental niche: Add brief definition or description
- Growth curve: Add brief definition or description
- Herbivore: Add brief definition or description
- Hibernation: Add brief definition or description
- Insectivores: Add brief definition or description
- Invasive species: Add brief definition or description
- Predation: Add brief definition or description
Evolution
- Microevolution: Add brief definition or description
- Speciation: Add brief definition or description
- Phylogeny: Add brief definition or description
- Endosymbiosis: Add brief definition or description
- Convergent evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary tree: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic drift: Add brief definition or description
- Homology (biology): Add brief definition or description
- Molecular clock: Add brief definition or description
- Monophyletic: Add brief definition or description
- Muller's ratchet: Add brief definition or description
Genetics
- Chromosome: Add brief definition or description
- Mendelian inheritance: Add brief definition or description
- Acquired characteristics: Add brief definition or description
- Adaptive radiation: Add brief definition or description
- Autosome: Add brief definition or description
- Centromere: Add brief definition or description
- Chiasma: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatid: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatin: Add brief definition or description
- Codon: Add brief definition or description
- Diploid: Add brief definition or description
- Double helix: Add brief definition or description
- Exon: Add brief definition or description
- Gamete: Add brief definition or description
- Gene: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic recombination: Add brief definition or description
- Genome: Add brief definition or description
- Haploid: Add brief definition or description
- Heredity: Add brief definition or description
- Hermaphrodite: Add brief definition or description
- Heterochromatin: Add brief definition or description
- Heterozygote: Add brief definition or description
- Homozygote: Add brief definition or description
- Locus (genetics): Add brief definition or description
- Lyon hypothesis: Add brief definition or description
- Meiosis: Add brief definition or description
- Mutagen: Add brief definition or description
- Oncogene: Add brief definition or description
- Punnett square: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative trait loci: Add brief definition or description
- Recombination: Add brief definition or description
- Sexual reproduction: Add brief definition or description
- Sister chromatid: Add brief definition or description
- Splicing (genetics): Add brief definition or description
- Telomere: Add brief definition or description
- Trait (biology): Add brief definition or description
- Wobble base pair: Add brief definition or description
- X chromosome: Add brief definition or description
- Y chromosome: Add brief definition or description
Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biology: Add brief definition or description
- Transcription (genetics): Add brief definition or description
- DNA replication: Add brief definition or description
- Enhancer: Add brief definition or description
- Homeobox: Add brief definition or description
- Lac repressor: Add brief definition or description
- Microarray: Add brief definition or description
- Non-coding RNA: Add brief definition or description
- Okazaki fragment: Add brief definition or description
- Operon: Add brief definition or description
- Plasmid: Add brief definition or description
- Promoter: Add brief definition or description
- Transcription factor: Add brief definition or description
- Transformation (genetics): Add brief definition or description
Physiology
- Circadian rhythm: Add brief definition or description
- Senescence: Add brief definition or description
- Vision: Add brief definition or description
- Systems biology: Add brief definition or description