List of biology topics

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See Biology basic topics for a pared-down list. List of biologists includes the people.

Table of contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I 10 J 11 K 12 L 13 M 14 N 15 O 16 P 17 Q 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 X 25 Y 26 Z

A absorption spectrum[?] - acetyl CoA[?] - actin[?] - Actin[?] - activation energy - activation energy - active site - active transport - adaptive radiation - ADP - aerobic - albinism - albumin - alcohole[?] - allosteric site[?] - allostery[?] - alpha helix - Ames test - amine - Amino acid - AMP - anabolism - anaerobic - anaphase - antibiotic resistance - antibiotic - antibody - anticodon[?] - antigen - antigenic determinant[?] - apoptosis - asexual reproduction - ATP synthase - ATP - ATPase - autoradiography[?] - autosome - autotrophic

B bacterial conjugation - Barr body - beta sheet - Biodiversity - Biology - Biology basic topics - blastomere[?] - blastula - blunt end[?] - bromuracil[?]

C C-terminus[?] - C4 photosynthesis[?] - Calvin cycle - CAM photosynthesis[?] - CAM plant[?] - cancer - capillar[?] - carbon fixation[?] - carnivore - carotine[?] - carrier - catabolism - cellular respiration - cellular respiration - centriole - centrosome - chaperone protein[?] - chemiosmosis[?] - chemoautotrophic[?] - Chi square test[?] - chiasma[?] - chlorophyll a[?] - chlorophyll - cholesterine[?] - chromatid - chromatin - chromatin - chromatography - chromosome - cilium - cis face[?] - cisterna - clearance[?] - clogging[?] - coenzyme - colchicine[?] - colony - competitive inhibition[?] - concentration gradient[?] - cooperativity cellular respiration[?] - cotransport metabolism[?] - cristae - crossing over - cryptobiology[?] - cuticula[?] - cyclic electron flow[?] - cytoplasm - cytosol - cytotoxic T cell

D decarboxylation reaction[?] - denaturation - denaturation - dialysis - diffusion - diffusion - dimer - disulfide bridge - DNA - DNA virus - double helix[?] - Down syndrome - dynein[?]

E Ecdyson[?] - Ecology - Edwards syndrome[?] - electromagnetic energy[?] - electron transport chain - embryo - embryonal development[?] - Emerson effect[?] - Emmer group[?] - endergonic reaction[?] - endodermis[?] - endoplasmic reticulum - energy trap[?] - Engelmann effect[?] - enhancer - enzyme - epidermis[?] - equilibrium - ethanol - eugenics - eukaryote - evolution - Evolutionary biology[?] - evolutionary tree - excretion - exergonic reaction[?] - exon - extinction

F facilitated diffusion - FAD[?] - FADH[?] - FADH2[?] - feedback inhibition[?] - Fehling solution[?] - fermentation - Ficks law of diffusion - flagellum - flavine[?] - Fluid mosaic model[?] - foot-and-mouth-disease[?] - fossil - Francis Galton - free energy

G G3P[?] - gastrula - gene drift[?] - gene pool - genetic recombination - George W. Beadle[?] - glucose - glycolipid[?] - glycolosis[?] - glycoprotein - glycoprotein - Gobind Khorana[?] - Golgi apparatus - gradient - grana[?] - growth curve[?] - Guthrie test[?]

H habitat - halobacteria - Hardy-Weinberg principle - Hela cell[?] - herbivore - hermaphrodite - Hershey-Chase experiment - heterotroph[?] - Hfr cell[?] - Hill reaction[?] - homunculus[?] - hormone - household gene[?] - hydrolysis - hydrolytic enzyme[?]

I inducibility[?] - inner matrix[?] - insectivores[?] - insuline[?] - intermediate filament[?] - intermembrane space[?] - interphase - intron - isoenzyme[?]

J

K karyoplasm[?] - karyotype - keratin - kinetic energy - Klinefelter syndrome[?] - Krebs cycle (or Citric acid cycle) - kwashiorkor(no joke!)

L lactic acid autotroph[?] - lagging strand[?] - larva - leading strand[?] - leaf - Life - Life form[?] - light reactions - Lineweaver-Burke-diagram[?] - lipase[?] - 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.) - luxury gene[?] - Lyon hypothesis[?] - lysis[?] - lysosome - lysozyme[?] - lytic cycle[?]

M malaria - Malphigi body[?] - Malphigi layer[?] - Marfan syndrome - Max Delbrück - memory cell[?] - metaphase[?] - Michaelis-Menten kinetics - microfilament[?] - microtubulus[?] - Mitchell hypothesis[?] - mitochondrion - monoclonal antibody[?] - morula - multiresistance[?] - mutagene[?] - Myosin[?]

N N-terminus[?] - NADH[?] - NADPH[?] - NADPH[?] - nephron - neural plate[?] - neural tube - neurospora crassa[?] - neurula[?] - non-competitive inhibition[?] - non cyclic electron flow[?] - nondisjunction[?] - nuclear lamina[?] - nucleon - nucleosid[?] - nucleus

O Okazaki fragment[?] - oncogene - operator - organelle - Oscar Hertwig[?] - osmosis - osmosis - Oswald Avery - ovalbumine[?] - oxidation - oxidative decarboxylation[?] - oxidative phosphorylation

P parthenogenesis - passive transport[?] - Patau syndrome[?] - pentose phosphate pathway[?] - peptide bond - peptide - peripheral protein[?] - peroxisome - Pfeffer cell[?] - phloem - phospholipid bilayer[?] - phosphorylation - photolysis[?] - photon - photophosphorylation[?] - photorespiration[?] - photosynthesis - photosystem I[?] - photosystem II[?] - phylogeny - phyocyan[?] - pigment - plasmolysis[?] - polypeptide - population - potential energy - primary structure - prokaryote - prometaphase[?] - promoter - prophase - protein translocation[?] - proteolysis - proton-motive force[?] - proton pump - pyruvate oxidation[?]

Q quaternary structure

R redox reaction[?] - redox system[?] - reduction - replication bubble[?] - repressor[?] - restriction enzyme - Retrovirus - rhesus factor[?] - ribosome - RNA virus - rough ER - RuBP[?] - Rudolf Steiner

S sarcoplasmic reticulum[?] - secondary structure - serum[?] - sexual reproduction - shigella - sister chromatid[?] - smooth ER - speciation - species - Spemann[?] /missing first name) - starch - sticky end - stoma - streptomycine[?] - stroma[?] - structural gene[?] - substrate level phosphorylation[?] - substrate - surface area-to-volume ratio[?] - symbiosis

T telophase[?] - tertiary structure - Theodor Boveri[?] - Thomas Hunt Morgan - thylakoid - TMV[?] - tobacco mosaic virus - trans face[?] - transmembrane proteins[?] - transport protein[?] - transport vesicle[?] - Traube cell[?] - tubulin[?] - tumor - turgor - Turner syndrome - twin

U urea cycle

V vacuole - virus (biology) - visible light - vitamin

W wavelength - Wobble base pair[?]

X X chromosome - xantophylle[?] - xenobiology - xylem

Y Y chromosome

Z zygote

Not yet alphabetized.

• • Single-cell organisms:
    • prokaryotes : microbe - bacteria - archaebacteria - eubacteria
    • eukaryotes: fungi - algae - protozoa - protista
  • Multicellular Organisms:
    • plantae - plants
    • animalia - animals -metazoa
    • fungi
• Animal Physiology:
  • Metabolism - nutrition - primary nutritional groups - respiration
  • organ and systems: skeleton - eye - muscle - joint - brain - liver - kidney - heart - lung
    • nervous system: limbic system - vestibular system[?] - vision - audition[?] - proprioception - olfaction - memory]
    • immune system: antibody - host - vaccine
  • tissues: blood - Bone - cartilage
  • Cells: neuron - stem cell - blood cell - immune cell - skin cell[?]
  • Techniques: electrophysiology
• Medicine:
  • Diseases: cancer
  • Drugs: antibiotic - barbiturate - SSRI
  • Techniques: MRI - CT - blood count
• Genetics : genotype - phenotype - Mendelian inheritance - gene - Allele - chromosome - haploid - diploid - homozygote - heterozygote - DNA - RNA - DNA replication - locus - Trait
  • Techniques: Drosophila - Arabidopsis - knock-out mouse - paternity test - genetic fingerprint
• Developmental biology : embryo - gamete - morphogenesis
• Cell biology:
  • the Biological cell
  • cell components:
    • organelles: endoplasmic reticulum - Golgi apparatus - nucleus - cytoplasm - vacuole - vesicle - mitochondrion - lysosome - peroxisome - chloroplast
    • membranes: plasma membrane - mitochondrial membrane - endomembrane system - chloroplast membrane[?]
    • ribosomes
    • Other subcellular features: synapse - axon - dendrite - pseudopod - cytoskeleton - mitotic spindle
  • cell processes: protein biosynthesis - cellular respiration - apoptosis - citric acid cycle - photosynthesis
    • cell signaling: hormone - action potential - synapse
    • signal transduction: second messenger - receptor
    • cellular reproduction: mitosis - meiosis - centromere
  • Techniques: microscope - culture
• Biochemistry :
  • Biomolecules :
    • Small: amino acids - lipids - phospholipid - prion - vitamins - neurotransmitter
    • Biopolymers/macromolecules
      • proteins: enzyme - receptor -transmembrane receptor- ion channel - membrane transporter[?]- collagen - silk
      • DNA - RNA
      • polysaccharide: cellulose - carbohydrate
  • Biochemical mechanisms: proteolysis - cooperativity[?]
  • Techniques[?]: electrophoresis[?] - His tag[?] -affinity chromatography[?] - x-ray diffraction
• Molecular biology: DNA - RNA - plasmid - virus - replication - genetic code - translation (biology) - transcription-transcription factor - recombination - hybridization[?] -nucleosome - histone - promoter - enhancer - mutation
  • computational biology - bioinformatics
  • genomics
  • proteomics
  • Techniques: gel electrophoresis - transformation - PCR - PCR mutagenesis[?] - primer - chromosome walking - RFLP - restriction enzyme - sequencing - cloning - microsatellite - culture
• Biology Divisions : Anatomy - Biochemistry - Biophysics - Bioinformatics - Biotechnology - Biomechanics - Botany - Cell biology - Ecology - Entomology - Evolution - Genetics - Herpetology - Ichthyology-Limnology-Immunology - Marine biology - Microbiology - Molecular biology - Mycology - Neurobiology[?] - Paleontology - Parasitology[?] - Photobiology[?] - Phycology - Physiology - Plant physiology - Biological Psychology[?]- Radiobiology[?] - Sociobiology - Structural biology - Taxonomy - Virology - Zoology
• biologists : Charles Robert Darwin - Alfred Russel Wallace - Jean Lamarck - Sir Charles Lyell - Alexander Fleming - Andrew Huxley - Robert Koch - Konrad Lorenz - Ernst Haeckel - Theodor Bilharz[?] - Marcello Malpighi - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - Thomas Malthus - Edward Jenner - Carolus Linnaeus - Sewall Wright - Louis Pasteur - Gregor Mendel - James Watson - Francis Crick - Kary Mullis - Craig Venter - Lynn Margulis

As was done with the topic optical phenomenon I suggest the topic biological phenomenon from which numerous topics and links may be developed.