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For N-Z, see List of biology topics N-Z
Related lists: list of biochemistry topics, list of molecular biology topics, list of evolutionary biology topics, list of biologists.
A
- 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: Biochemical with an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a side chain bonded to a central carbon. [e]
- 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
B
- B cell: Add brief definition or description
- bacteria: Add brief definition or description
- Bacterial conjugation: Add brief definition or description
- Barr body: Add brief definition or description
- behavior: Add brief definition or description
- Beta sheet: Add brief definition or description
- biodiversity: Add brief definition or description
- Biological dispersal: Add brief definition or description
- Biological tissue: Add brief definition or description
- Biology: Add brief definition or description
- Blastomere: Add brief definition or description
- Blastula: Add brief definition or description
- Blunt end: Add brief definition or description
- 5-bromouracil: Add brief definition or description
- Bacteria: Add brief definition or description
- Barbiturate: Add brief definition or description
- Biochemical techniques: Add brief definition or description
- biochemistry: Add brief definition or description
- bioinformatics: Add brief definition or description
- Membranes: Add brief definition or description
- Biological psychology: Add brief definition or description
- Biological tissue: Add brief definition or descriptions
- Biologist: Add brief definition or description
- biome: Add brief definition or description
- biomechanics: Add brief definition or description
- biophysics: Add brief definition or description
- Biopolymer: Add brief definition or description
- biotechnology: Add brief definition or description
- BLAST: Add brief definition or description
- Blastula: Add brief definition or description
- blood: Add brief definition or description
- Blood cell: Add brief definition or description
- Blood count: Add brief definition or description
- BOLD effect: Add brief definition or description
- Bone: Add brief definition or description
- botany: Add brief definition or description
- brain: Add brief definition or description
- Bryophyte: Add brief definition or description
C
- C3 carbon fixation: Add brief definition or description
- C4 photosynthesis: Add brief definition or description
- Calvin cycle: Add brief definition or description
- CAM photosynthesis: Add brief definition or description
- CAM plants: Add brief definition or description
- cancer: Add brief definition or description
- Capacitation: Add brief definition or description
- Capillary: Add brief definition or description
- Carbohydrate: Add brief definition or description
- Carbon cycle: Add brief definition or description
- Carbon fixation: Add brief definition or description
- carnivore: Add brief definition or description
- Carolus Linnaeus: Add brief definition or description
- carotene: Add brief definition or description
- Carrier: Add brief definition or description
- Carrying capacity: Add brief definition or description
- Cartilage: Add brief definition or description
- Casparian strip: Add brief definition or description
- catabolism: Add brief definition or description
- cell: Add brief definition or description
- Cell biology: Add brief definition or description
- Cell culture: Add brief definition or description
- cell division: Add brief definition or description
- Cell growth: Add brief definition or description
- cell membrane: Add brief definition or description
- Cell metabolism: Add brief definition or description
- cell nucleus: Add brief definition or description -
- Cell wall: Add brief definition or description
- Cellular differentiation: Add brief definition or description
- cellular respiration: Add brief definition or description
- Cellulose: Add brief definition or description
- Centriole: Add brief definition or description
- Centromere: Add brief definition or description
- Centrosome: Add brief definition or description
- Chaperone protein: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Robert Darwin: Add brief definition or description
- Chemiosmosis: Add brief definition or description
- Chemautotrophic: Add brief definition or description
- Chiasma: Add brief definition or description
- Chimera (genetics): Add brief definition or description
- Chi square test: Add brief definition or description
- Chlorophyll: Add brief definition or description
- chloroplast: Add brief definition or description
- Chloroplast membrane: Add brief definition or description
- cholesterol: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatid: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatin: Add brief definition or description
- chromatography: Add brief definition or description
- Chromosome: Add brief definition or description
- Chromosome walking: Add brief definition or description
- Cilium: Add brief definition or description
- Circadian rhythm: Add brief definition or description
- circulatory system: Add brief definition or description
- Cis face: Add brief definition or description
- Cisterna: Add brief definition or description
- citric acid cycle: Add brief definition or description
- Cladistics: Add brief definition or description
- Classical genetics: Add brief definition or description
- Clearance: Add brief definition or description
- Clogging: Add brief definition or description
- cloning: Add brief definition or description
- Codon: Add brief definition or description
- Codon usage bias: Add brief definition or description
- Coenzyme: Add brief definition or description
- colchicine: Add brief definition or description
- Collagen: Add brief definition or description
- Colony: Add brief definition or description
- Commensalism: Add brief definition or description
- Common descent: Add brief definition or description
- Communicable disease: Add brief definition or description
- community: Add brief definition or description
- Community ecology: Add brief definition or description
- competition: Add brief definition or description
- Competitive exclusion principle: Add brief definition or description
- Competitive inhibition: Add brief definition or description
- Computational biology: Add brief definition or description
- Concentration gradient: Add brief definition or description
- Continental drift: Add brief definition or description
- Convergance: Add brief definition or description
- Convergent evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Cooperativity: Add brief definition or description
- Cork cambium: Add brief definition or description
- Cotyledon: Add brief definition or description
- Craig Venter: Add brief definition or description
- cristae: Add brief definition or description
- Crossing over: Add brief definition or description
- cryobiology: Add brief definition or description
- cryopreservation: Add brief definition or description
- Cryptobiology: Add brief definition or description
- Cryptobiosis: Add brief definition or description
- CT: Add brief definition or description
- C-terminus: Add brief definition or description
- Culture: Add brief definition or description
- Cuticula: Add brief definition or description
- Cyclic electron flow: Add brief definition or description
- Cytokinesis: Add brief definition or description
- Cytoplasm: Add brief definition or description
- cytoskeleton: Add brief definition or description
- Cytosol: Add brief definition or description
- Cytotoxic T cell: Add brief definition or description
D
- Decarboxylation reaction: Add brief definition or description
- Decomposition: Add brief definition or description
- Defective interfering particle: Add brief definition or description
- Deletion: Add brief definition or description
- Denaturation: Add brief definition or description
- dendrite: Add brief definition or description
- Dendritic cell: Add brief definition or description
- dengue fever: Add brief definition or description
- Depolarization: Add brief definition or description
- Developmental biology: Add brief definition or description
- Diabetes: Add brief definition or description
- dialysis: Add brief definition or description
- Diffusion: Add brief definition or description
- Digestion: Add brief definition or description
- Digestive system: Add brief definition or description
- Digital organism: Add brief definition or description
- dihybrid cross: Add brief definition or description
- Dimer: Add brief definition or description
- Diploid: Add brief definition or description
- Disulfide bridge: Add brief definition or description
- DNA: Add brief definition or description
- DNA replication: Add brief definition or description
- DNA sequence: Add brief definition or description
- DNA virus: Add brief definition or description
- Double helix: Add brief definition or description
- Down syndrome: Add brief definition or description
- Drosophila: Add brief definition or description
- Drugs: Add brief definition or description
- Dynein: Add brief definition or description
E
- ear: Add brief definition or description
- E. coli: Add brief definition or description
- ebola: Add brief definition or description
- Ecdysone: Add brief definition or description
- ecology: Add brief definition or description
- Ecological genetics: Add brief definition or description
- ecosystem: Add brief definition or description
- Ectotherm: Add brief definition or description
- Edge effect: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Jenner: Add brief definition or description
- Edward's Syndrome: Add brief definition or description
- Egg (biology): Add brief definition or description
- Elater: Add brief definition or description
- Electromagnetic energy: Add brief definition or description
- Electron transport chain: Add brief definition or description
- electrophoresis: Add brief definition or description
- Electrophysiology: Add brief definition or description
- embryo: Add brief definition or description
- Embryonal development: Add brief definition or description
- Endemism: Add brief definition or description
- Endergonic reaction: Add brief definition or description
- Endodermis: Add brief definition or description
- Endomembrane system: Add brief definition or description
- Endoplasmic reticulum: Add brief definition or description
- Endosymbiont: Add brief definition or description
- Endosymbiosis: Add brief definition or description
- endosymbiotic theory: Add brief definition or description
- Endotherm: Add brief definition or description
- Enhancer: Add brief definition or description
- Entomology: Add brief definition or description
- Environmental science: Add brief definition or description
- enzyme: Add brief definition or description
- Epidermis: Add brief definition or description
- Epidermis (botany): Add brief definition or description
- epigenetics: Add brief definition or description
- Equilibrium: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Haeckel: Add brief definition or description
- ethanol: Add brief definition or description
- Eubacteria: Add brief definition or description
- eugenics: Add brief definition or description
- eukaryote: Add brief definition or description
- evolution: Add brief definition or description
- evolutionary biology: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary developmental biology: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary tree: Add brief definition or description
- Ewens's sampling formula: Add brief definition or description
- Excretion: Add brief definition or description
- Exergonic reaction: Add brief definition or description
- Exon: Add brief definition or description
- Experimental evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Expressed sequence tag: Add brief definition or description (EST)
- extinction: Add brief definition or description
- eye: Add brief definition or description
F
- Facilitated diffusion: Add brief definition or description
- FAD: Add brief definition or description
- FADH: Add brief definition or description
- FADH2: Add brief definition or description
- Fat: Add brief definition or description
- Feedback inhibition: Add brief definition or description
- Fehling solution: Add brief definition or description
- Female: Add brief definition or description
- fermentation (biochemistry): Add brief definition or description
- Fetus: Add brief definition or description
- Fick's law of diffusion: Add brief definition or description
- Fitness: Add brief definition or description
- Fitness landscape: Add brief definition or description
- Flagellum: Add brief definition or description
- Flavine: Add brief definition or description
- Flaviviridae: Add brief definition or description
- flower: Add brief definition or description
- Fluid mosaic model: Add brief definition or description
- food web: Add brief definition or description
- Foot and mouth disease: Add brief definition or description
- fossil: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Crick: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Galton: Add brief definition or description
- Free energy: Add brief definition or description
- Fungi: Add brief definition or description
G
- G3P: Add brief definition or description
- Gamete: Add brief definition or description
- Gametophyte: Add brief definition or description
- Gastrula: Add brief definition or description
- Gel electrophoresis: Add brief definition or description
- gene: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic drift: Add brief definition or description
- gene duplication: Add brief definition or description
- Gene pool: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic code: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic fingerprint: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic recombination: Add brief definition or description
- genetics: Add brief definition or description
- Gene regulatory network: Add brief definition or description
- gene therapy: Add brief definition or description
- genome: Add brief definition or description
- Genome project: Add brief definition or description
- Genomics: Add brief definition or description
- genotype: Add brief definition or description
- Geologic time: Add brief definition or description
- George W. Beadle: Add brief definition or description
- glucose: Add brief definition or description
- Glycolipid: Add brief definition or description
- glycolysis: Add brief definition or description
- Glycome: Add brief definition or description
- Glycomics: Add brief definition or description
- Glycoprotein: Add brief definition or description
- Glycoprotein: Add brief definition or description
- Gobind Khorana: Add brief definition or description
- Golgi apparatus: Add brief definition or description
- Gondwana: Add brief definition or description
- Gradient: Add brief definition or description
- Grana: Add brief definition or description
- Gravitropism: Add brief definition or description
- Gregor Mendel: Add brief definition or description
- Ground tissue: Add brief definition or description
- Growth curve: Add brief definition or description
- Guthrie test: Add brief definition or description
H
- Habitat (ecology): Add brief definition or description
- habitat: Add brief definition or description
- HACEK organism: Add brief definition or description
- Halobacteria: Add brief definition or description
- Haploid: Add brief definition or description
- Hardy-Weinberg principle: Add brief definition or description
- heart: Add brief definition or description
- Hela cell: Add brief definition or description
- Helper T cell: Add brief definition or description
- Hemispheric lateralization: Add brief definition or description
- Hepadnaviridae: Add brief definition or description
- Hepatitis B: Add brief definition or description
- Herbivore: Add brief definition or description
- Heredity: Add brief definition or description
- Hereditary disease: Add brief definition or description
- Hermaphrodite: Add brief definition or description
- Herpetology: Add brief definition or description
- Hershey-Chase experiment: Add brief definition or description
- Heterochromatin: Add brief definition or description
- Heterotroph: Add brief definition or description
- Heterozygote: Add brief definition or description
- Hfr cell: Add brief definition or description
- Hibernation: Add brief definition or description
- Hill reaction: Add brief definition or description
- His tag: Add brief definition or description
- histone: Add brief definition or description
- Homeobox: Add brief definition or description
- Homeostasis: Add brief definition or description
- Homology: Add brief definition or description
- Homoplasy: Add brief definition or description
- Homozygote: Add brief definition or description
- Homunculus: Add brief definition or description
- hormone: Add brief definition or description
- hormone: Add brief definition or description
- Host: Add brief definition or description
- Housekeeping gene: Add brief definition or description
- human: Add brief definition or description
- Human Genome Project: Add brief definition or description
- human physiology: Add brief definition or description
- Humoral immunity: Add brief definition or description
- Hybrid: Add brief definition or description
- Hybridization: Add brief definition or description
- Hydrolysis: Add brief definition or description
- Hydrolytic enzyme: Add brief definition or description
- Hyperpolarization: Add brief definition or description
I
- Ichthyology: Add brief definition or description
- Immune cell: Add brief definition or description
- Immune system: Add brief definition or description
- immunology: Add brief definition or description
- Inbreeding: Add brief definition or description
- Infertility: Add brief definition or description
- insect: Add brief definition or description
- Insectivores: Add brief definition or description
- insulin: Add brief definition or description
- Intermediate filament: Add brief definition or description
- Intermembrane space: Add brief definition or description
- Interphase: Add brief definition or description
- Intestine: Add brief definition or description
- intron: Add brief definition or description
- Invasive species: Add brief definition or description
- ion channel: Add brief definition or description
- isoenzyme: Add brief definition or description
- Isotonic: Add brief definition or description
J
- James Watson: Add brief definition or description
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: Add brief definition or description
- Joint: Add brief definition or description
K
- K-selection: Add brief definition or description
- Kary Mullis: Add brief definition or description
- Karyoplasm: Add brief definition or description
- Karyotype: Add brief definition or description
- Keratin: Add brief definition or description
- Keystone species: Add brief definition or description
- kidney: Add brief definition or description
- Kinesiology: Add brief definition or description
- Kinetic energy: Add brief definition or description
- Klinefelter syndrome: Add brief definition or description
- Knock-out mouse: Add brief definition or description
- Konrad Lorenz: Add brief definition or description
- Krebs cycle: Add brief definition or description (or
- citric acid cycle: Add brief definition or description)
- Kwashiorkor: Add brief definition or description
L
- Lac repressor: Add brief definition or description
- Lactic acid autotroph: Add brief definition or description
- Lagging strand: Add brief definition or description
- Lambda phage: Add brief definition or description
- Larva: Add brief definition or description
- Leading strand: Add brief definition or description
- Leaf: Add brief definition or description
- Leucocyte: Add brief definition or description
- Lichen: Add brief definition or description
- Life form: Add brief definition or description
- Life: Add brief definition or description
- Light reactions: Add brief definition or description
- Limbic system: Add brief definition or description
- Limnology: Add brief definition or description
- Lineweaver-Burke-diagram: Add brief definition or description
- Lipase: Add brief definition or description
- lipid: Add brief definition or description
- List of biochemistry topics: Add brief definition or description
- List of biological topics: Add brief definition or description
- List of biologists: Add brief definition or description
- List of gene families: Add brief definition or description
- liver: Add brief definition or description
- Locus: Add brief definition or description
- Long-term potentiation: Add brief definition or description
- Louis Pasteur: Add brief definition or description
- Lung: Add brief definition or description
- Lynn Margulis: Add brief definition or description
- Lyon hypothesis: Add brief definition or description
- Lysis: Add brief definition or description
- lysozyme: Add brief definition or description
- Lytic cycle: Add brief definition or description
M
- Macroecology: Add brief definition or description
- macroevolution: Add brief definition or description
- macromolecules: Add brief definition or description
- Major histocompatibility complex: Add brief definition or description (MHC)
- malaria: Add brief definition or description
- Male: Add brief definition or description
- Malpighi body: Add brief definition or description
- Malpighi layer: Add brief definition or description
- Monophyletic: Add brief definition or description
- Marburg virus: Add brief definition or description
- Marcello Malpighi: Add brief definition or description
- Marfan syndrome: Add brief definition or description
- marine biology: Add brief definition or description
- mass extinction: Add brief definition or description
- mathematical biology: Add brief definition or description
- Mating: Add brief definition or description
- Max Delbrück: Add brief definition or description
- Meiosis: Add brief definition or description
- memory: Add brief definition or description
- Memory cell: Add brief definition or description
- Mendelian inheritance: Add brief definition or description
- Meristem: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolism: Add brief definition or description
- Metaphase: Add brief definition or description
- metapopulation: Add brief definition or description
- Metazoa: Add brief definition or description
- Michaelis-Menten kinetics: Add brief definition or description
- Microbe: Add brief definition or description
- microbiology: Add brief definition or description
- Microevolution: Add brief definition or description
- microfilament: Add brief definition or description
- microsatellite: Add brief definition or description
- microscope: Add brief definition or description
- Microtubules: Add brief definition or description
- Miller-Urey experiment: Add brief definition or description
- Mimicry: Add brief definition or description
- Mitochondrial membrane: Add brief definition or description
- mitochondrion: Add brief definition or description
- mitosis: Add brief definition or description
- Mitotic spindle: Add brief definition or description
- Modern evolutionary synthesis: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular biology: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular clock: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular genetics: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular phylogeny: Add brief definition or description
- Mollusc: Add brief definition or description
- monoclonal antibody: Add brief definition or description
- Morphogenesis: Add brief definition or description
- Morphometrics: Add brief definition or description
- Morula: Add brief definition or description
- MRI: Add brief definition or description
- Muller's ratchet: Add brief definition or description
- Multiresistance: Add brief definition or description
- Muscle: Add brief definition or description
- Mutagen: Add brief definition or description
- mutation: Add brief definition or description
- Mutational meltdown: Add brief definition or description
- Mutualism: Add brief definition or description
- mycology: Add brief definition or description
- Myosin: Add brief definition or description