CZ:List of biology topics

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Related lists: list of biochemistry topics, list of molecular biology topics, list of evolutionary biology topics, list of biologists.

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Abiogenesis: Add brief definition or description
Aerobic respiration: Add brief definition or description
Absorption spectrum: Add brief definition or description
Acclimatization: Add brief definition or description
Acetyl CoA: Add brief definition or description
Acid-base physiology: Add brief definition or description
Acrosome: Add brief definition or description
Acrosome reaction: Add brief definition or description
actin: A globular protein that can polymerise to form microfilaments; essential for cell movement and muscle contraction. ^[e]
action potential: A brief change in voltage that travels along a cell membrane. ^[e]
Activation energy: Add brief definition or description
Active site: Add brief definition or description
Active transport: Add brief definition or description
adaptation: Describes the event of a trait being selected by the mechanism of natural selection. ^[e]
Adaptive radiation: Add brief definition or description
adenine: A base incorporated into DNA and RNA and part of an energy carrier, as ATP, in metabolism. ^[e]
Adenosine triphosphate: A molecule sometimes called the "energy currency" of a cell ^[e] (ATP)
Adenosine diphosphate: Add brief definition or description (ADP)
Aerobic: Add brief definition or description
affinity chromatography: Method to filter a specific molecule out of a solution. ^[e]
agriculture: The process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. ^[e]
Albinism: Add brief definition or description
Albumin: Add brief definition or description
alcohol: A chemical compound that contains a hydroxy group (OH). ^[e]
Alexander Fleming: Scottish biologist and pharmacologist (1881-1955), best-known for the discovery of penicillin for which he won the Nobel Prize. ^[e]
Alfred Russel Wallace: (1823 – 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independently of Darwin. ^[e]
algae: A diverse group of simple, typically photosynthetic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms; the largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds. ^[e]
allele: A specific sequence of a gene, and one of a pair in a diploid cell (one per chromosome). ^[e]
Allele frequency: Add brief definition or description
Allosteric site: Add brief definition or description
Allostery: Add brief definition or description
Alpha helix: Add brief definition or description
Alternation of generations: Add brief definition or description
Alternative splicing: Add brief definition or description
Ames test: Add brief definition or description
amine: An organic chemical containing a nitrogen atom with tetrahedral arrangement of it electron pairs and its lone pair of electrons. ^[e]
amino acid: Add brief definition or description
Adenosine monophosphate: Add brief definition or description (AMP)
anabolism: Add brief definition or description
Anaerobic: Add brief definition or description
Anaphase: Add brief definition or description
anatomy: Add brief definition or description
Andrew Huxley: Add brief definition or description
animal: Add brief definition or descriptionia
animal: Add brief definition or descriptions
Antheridium: Add brief definition or description
antibiotic: Add brief definition or description
antibiotic resistance: Add brief definition or description
antibody: Add brief definition or description
Anticodon: Add brief definition or description
antigen: Add brief definition or description
Antigenic determinant: Add brief definition or description
Antigenic shift: Add brief definition or description
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: Add brief definition or description
Ants: Add brief definition or description
Apes: Add brief definition or description
Apical meristem: Add brief definition or description
apoptosis: Add brief definition or description
Arabidopsis: Add brief definition or description
Arbovirus: Add brief definition or description
Archaebacteria: Add brief definition or description
Archegonium: Add brief definition or description
artery: Add brief definition or description
Artificial life: Add brief definition or description
Aseptic technique in microbiology: Add brief definition or description
asexual reproduction: Add brief definition or description
ATPase: Add brief definition or description
ATP synthase: Add brief definition or description
Audition: Add brief definition or description
Autecology: Add brief definition or description
Autoradiography: Add brief definition or description
Autosome: Add brief definition or description
Autotrophic: Add brief definition or description
Avian influenza: Add brief definition or description
Axon: Add brief definition or description

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