Open Questions: Glossary of Life Sciences
- Acetylation
- Adenovirus
- Allele
- Amino acid
- Antisense
- Apoptosis
- Archaea
- B cell
- Bacteriophage
- Base
- A type of organic molecule, certain examples of which occur
in the nucleotides of DNA and RNA. The bases which actually occur
are adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine (DNA), and uracil (RNA).
- Blastocyte
- Centromere
- Centrosome
- Chloroplast
- Chromatin
- Chromosome
- Cladistics
- Codon
- Complement
- Crossing over
- Cyanobacteria
- Cytokine
- Cytoplasm
- Cytoskeleton
- Diploidy
- DNA
- Endosymbiosis
- The theory that eukaryotic cell organelles, such as mitochondria
and chloroplasts, originated as free-living bacteria which were
incorporated symbiotically into the earliest forms of eukaryotic
cells.
- Enhanceosome
- Enhancer
- Enzyme
- Epigenetics
- Eukaryotic cell
- Expressed sequence tags
- Exon
- G protein
- Gamete
- Gene
- Genotype
- Germ line
- Glycosylation
- Haploidy
- Homozygous
- Histone
- Homeobox
- Hormone
- Hox gene
- Heterozygous
- Imprinting
- Inclusive fitness
- Intron
- Macrophage
- Meiosis
- Messenger RNA
- Metazoan
- Methylation
- Microsatellite
- Microtuble
- Mitochondrion
- Mitosis
- Neurotransmitter
- Nucleosome
- Nucleotide
- A simple organic molecule which is the basic unit of nucleic
acids (RNA and DNA). A nucleotide, in turn, consists of a sugar --
ribose (in RNA) or deoxyribose (DNA) -- plus a base plus a
phosphate group (PO4).
- Nucleus
- Oncogene
- Organelle
- Parthenogenesis
- Peptide
- Peptide nucleic acid
- Phenotype
- Phosphorylation
- Plasmid
- Polymerase
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Polypeptide
- Prokaryotic cell
- Promoter region
- Protease
- Protein
- Protist
- A single-celled eukaryotic organism, such as an amoeba. A
member of the taxonomic kingdom called Protista.
- Protozoan
- Retrovirus
- Restriction enzyme
- Reverse transcriptase
- Ribosome
- Ribozyme
- RNA
- RNA interference
- Single nucleotide polymorphism
- Speciation
- Spliceosome
- Stem cell
- Stromatolite
- Symbiogenesis
- Another name for the theory known as endosymbiosis.
- T cell
- Telomerase
- Telomere
- Transcriptase
- Transcription factor
- A protein which activates or represses the expression of a gene.
- Transfer RNA
- Transposon
- Zygote
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