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A

abiogenesis - absorption spectrum - acetyl CoA - actin - action potential - activation energy - activation energy - active site - active transport - adaptive radiation - ATP - ADP - aerobic - affinity chromatography - albinism - albumin - alcohol - Alexander Fleming - Alfred Russel Wallace - algae - allele - allele frequency - allosteric site - allostery - alpha helix - Ames test - amine - amino acid - AMP - anabolism - anaerobic - anaphase - Anatomy - Andrew Huxley - animalia - animals - antibiotic - antibiotic resistance - antibody - anticodon - antigen - antigenic determinant - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - apoptosis - Arabidopsis - archaebacteria - artificial life - asexual reproduction - ATPase - ATP synthase - audition - autoradiography - autosome - autotrophic - axon

B

B cell - bacterial conjugation - Barr body - beta sheet - biodiversity - biology - biology basic topics - blastomere - blastula - blunt end - bromuracil - bacteria - barbiturate - biochemical techniques - biochemistry - bioinformatics - Biological cell - membranes - biological psychology - biological tissues - biologist - biomechanics - biophysics - biopolymer - biotechnology - BLAST - blood - blood cell - blood count - bone - botany - brain

C

C4 photosynthesis - Calvin cycle - CAM photosynthesis - CAM plant - cancer - capillar - carbohydrate - carbon fixation - carnivore - Carolus Linnaeus - carotine - carrier - cartilage - catabolism - cell biology - cell nucleus - cellular respiration - cellulose - centriole - centromere - centrosome - chaperone protein - Charles Robert Darwin - chemiosmosis - chemoautotrophic - chiasma - chimera (animal) - Chi square test - chlorophyll - chloroplast - chloroplast membrane - cholesterine - chromatid - chromatin - chromatography - chromosome - chromosome walking - cilium - cis face - cisterna - citric acid cycle - cladistics - classical genetics - clearance - clogging - cloning - coenzyme - colchicine - collagen - colony - competitive inhibition - computational biology - concentration gradient - cooperativity - cooperativity cellular respiration - cotransport metabolism - Craig Venter - cristae - crossing over - cryptobiology - CT - C-terminus - culture - cuticula - cyclic electron flow - cytoplasm - cytoskeleton - cytosol - cytotoxic T cell

D

decarboxylation reaction - denaturation - dendrite - dendritic cell - depolarization - developmental biology - diabetes - dialysis - digital organisms - diffusion - dimer - diploid - disulfide bridge - DNA - DNA replication - DNA sequence - DNA virus - double helix - Down syndrome - Drosophila - drugs - dynein

E

Ecdysone - ecology - ectotherm - Edward Jenner - Edwards syndrome - electromagnetic energy - electron transport chain - electrophoresis - electrophysiology - embryo - embryonal development - Emerson effect - Emmer group - endergonic reaction - endodermis - endomembrane system - endoplasmic reticulum - endotherm - energy trap - Engelmann effect - enhancer - entomology - enzyme - epidermis - epigenetics - equilibrium - Ernst Haeckel - ethanol - eubacteria - eugenics - eukaryote - evolution - evolutionary biology - evolutionary developmental biology - evolutionary tree - excretion - exergonic reaction - exon - extinction - eye

F

facilitated diffusion - FAD - FADH - FADH2 - feedback inhibition - Fehling solution - fermentation - Ficks law of diffusion - fitness - fitness landscape - flagellum - flavine - fluid mosaic model - foot-and-mouth-disease - fossil - Francis Crick - Francis Galton - free energy - fungi

G

G3P - gamete - gastrula - gel electrophoresis - gene - genetic drift - gene pool - genetic code - genetic fingerprint - genetic recombination - genetics - gene regulatory network - genomics - genotype - George W. Beadle - glucose - glycolipid - glycolysis - glycoprotein - glycoprotein - Gobind Khorana - Golgi apparatus - gradient - grana - Gregor Mendel - growth curve - Guthrie test

H

habitat - halobacteria - haploid - Hardy-Weinberg principle - heart - Hela cell - helper T cell - herbivore - hermaphrodite - herpetology - Hershey-Chase experiment - heterotroph - heterozygote - Hfr cell - Hill reaction - His tag - histone - homeobox - homeostasis - homozygote - homunculus - hormone - hormone - host - household gene - humoral immunity - hybridization - hydrolysis - hydrolytic enzyme - hyperpolarization

I

ichthyology - immune cell - immune system - immunology - inducibility - inner matrix - insectivores - insulin - intermediate filament - intermembrane space - interphase - intron - ion channel - isoenzyme

J

James Watson - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - joint

K

Kary Mullis - karyoplasm - karyotype - keratin - kidney - kinetic energy - Klinefelter syndrome - knock-out mouse - Konrad Lorenz - Krebs cycle (or citric acid cycle) - kwashiorkor

L

Lac repressor -- lactic acid autotroph - lagging strand - larva - leading strand - leaf - life - life form - light reactions - limbic system - limnology - Lineweaver-Burke-diagram - lipase - lipid - list of biological topics - list of biologists - list of biology topics (Please do not delete this self-link because the interested parties want to know about changes to this page.) - list of gene families - liver - locus - Louis Pasteur - lung - luxury gene - Lynn Margulis - Lyon hypothesis - lysis - lysozyme - lytic cycle - List of biochemistry topics

M

macroevolution - macromolecules - major histocompatibility complex (MHC) - malaria - Malpighi body - Malpighi layer - Marcello Malpighi - Marfan syndrome - marine biology - Max Delbrück - meiosis - membrane transporter - memory - memory cell - Mendelian inheritance - metabolism - metaphase - metazoa - Michaelis-Menten kinetics - microbe - microbiology - microevolution - microfilament - microsatellite - microscope - microtubulus - Mitchell hypothesis - mitochondrial membrane - mitochondrion - mitosis - mitotic spindle - modern evolutionary synthesis - molecular biology - molecular evolution - molecular genetics - molecular phylogeny - monoclonal antibody - morphogenesis - morula - MRI - Muller's ratchet - multiresistance - muscle - mutagen - mutation - mycology - myosin

N

NAD - NADH - NADPH - nephron - nervous system - neural plate - neural tube - neurobiology - neuron - neurospora crassa - neurotransmitter - neurula - neutral theory of molecular evolution - non-competitive inhibition - non cyclic electron flow - nondisjunction - N-terminus - nuclear lamina - nucleon - nucleoside - nucleosome - nucleotide - nucleus - nutrition

O

Okazaki fragment - olfaction - oncogene - operator - operon - organ - organelle - origin of life - Oscar Hertwig - osmosis - osmoregulation - Oswald Avery - ovalbumine - oxidation - oxidative decarboxylation - oxidative phosphorylation

P

paleontology - parasitology - parthenogenesis - passive transport - Patau syndrome - paternity test - PCR - PCR mutagenesis - pentose phosphate pathway - peptide - peptide bond - peripheral protein - peroxisome - Pfeffer cell - phenotype - phloem - phospholipid - phospholipid bilayer - phosphorylation - photobiology - photolysis - photon - photophosphorylation - photorespiration - photosynthesis - photosynthesis - photosystem I - photosystem II - phycology - phylogenetics - phylogeny - Phylogenetic tree - phyocyan - physiology - pigment - plantae - plant physiology - plant - plasma membrane - plasmid - plasmolysis - polypeptide - polysaccharide - population - population genetics - potential energy - primary nutritional groups - primary structure - primer - prion - prokaryote - prometaphase - promoter - prophase - proprioception - protein biosynthesis - protein - protein translocation - proteolysis - proteomics - protista - proton-motive force - proton pump - protozoa - pseudopod - purine - pyrimidine - pyruvate oxidation

Q

quaternary structure

R

radiobiology - receptor - recombination - redox reaction - redox system - reduction - replication - replication bubble - repressor - respiration - restriction enzyme - retrovirus - reverse genetics - RFLP - rhesus factor - ribosome - RNA - RNA virus - Robert Koch - rough ER - RuBP - Rudolf Steiner

S

sarcoplasmic reticulum - secondary structure - second messenger - sequencing - serum - Sewall Wright - sexual reproduction - shigella - signal transduction - silk - Sir Charles Lyell - sister chromatid - skeleton - skin cell - smooth ER - sociobiology - speciation - species - Spemann (missing first name) - SSRI - starch - stem cell - sticky end - stoma - streptomycine - stroma - structural biology - structural gene - substrate - substrate level phosphorylation - surface area-to-volume ratio - symbiosis - symbiogenesis - synapse

T

T cell - taxonomy - telophase - tertiary structure - Theodor Bilharz - Theodor Boveri - thermoregulation - Thomas Hunt Morgan - Thomas Malthus - thylakoid - TMV - tobacco mosaic virus - trait - transcription - transcription factor - transcriptional regulation - trans face - transformation - translation - transmembrane proteins - transmembrane receptor - transport protein - transport vesicle - Traube cell - tubulin - tumor - turgor - Turner syndrome - twin

U

urea cycle

V

vaccine - vacuole - vesicle - vesicular stomatitis virus - vestibular system - virology - virus - virus evolution - visible light - vision - vitamin

W

wavelength - Wobble base pair

X

xantophylle - X chromosome - xenobiology - X-ray diffraction - xylem

Y

Y chromosome

Z

zoology - zygote