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Parent topics
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Cell (biology) [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. [e]
- Membrane biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies relevant to biological membranes. [e]
Subtopics
- Action potential [r]: A brief change in voltage that travels along a cell membrane. [e]
Other related topics
- Adhesion plaques [r]: Small areas on the cell's membrane that anchor the cell to an extracellular matrix. [e]
- Alcohol [r]: A chemical compound that contains a hydroxy group (OH). [e]
- Amine [r]: An organic chemical containing a nitrogen atom with tetrahedral arrangement of it electron pairs and its lone pair of electrons. [e]
- Apoptosis [r]: Programmed cell death by which cells in a multicellular organism undergo a controlled death. [e]
- Archaea [r]: A major group of numerous microorganisms fundamentally different from the bacteria and including many chemolithotrophs and extremophiles. [e]
- Bacterial cell structure [r]: Morphological and genetic features of unicellular prokaryotic organisms characterized by the lack of a membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. [e]
- Bacteria [r]: A major group of single-celled microorganisms. [e]
- Bioelectrical impedance analysis [r]: Method for estimating body composition using electrical impedance. [e]
- Cell cycle [r]: Is the progression of events within a eukaryotic cell between cell divisions. [e]
- Endosymbiont theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fatty acid metabolism [r]: Oxidative degradation of saturated fatty acids in which two-carbon units are sequentially removed from the molecule with each turn of the cycle, and metabolized so that it can be used as a source of energy in aerobic respiration. [e]
- Glucose-6-phosphate [r]: (G6P), is glucose that has been phosphorylated on carbon 6. The conversion from glucose to G6P is the first step of glycolysis for energy production in cells. [e]
- Hormone [r]: A chemical director of biological activity that travels through some portion of the body as a messenger. [e]
- Ion channel [r]: Gated, ion-selective glycoproteins that traverse membranes. The stimulus for channel gating can be a membrane potential, drug, transmitter, cytoplasmic messenger, or a mechanical deformation (U.S. National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Ligand [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maximum life span [r]: Measure of the maximum amount of time one or more members of a group has been observed to survive between birth and death. [e]
- Membrane protein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
- Organism [r]: An individual living individual: a complex, adaptive physical system that acts a integrated unit that sustains metabolism and reproduces progeny that resemble it. [e]
- Origin of life [r]: How did self-replicating biochemistry and cells arise from the prebiotic world approximately four billion years ago? Aka abiogenesis. [e]
- Phagocytosis [r]: That part of immune response in which defensive cells such as neutrophils and macrophages surround and "digest" foreign particles [e]
- Patch clamp [r]: An electrophysiological recording technique that enables the investigation of single or multiple ion channel properties. [e]
- Plant (organism) [r]: A eukaryotic organism, grouped into the kingdom Plantae, that typically synthesizes nutrients through photosynthesis and possesses the inability to voluntarily move. [e]
- Potassium [r]: A very reactive, silvery white alkali metal, chemical element 19 with symbol K. [e]
- Prion [r]: Simple proteins that do not contain any nucleic acid, thought to act as an infectious agent responsible for Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, kuru and possibly other degenerative diseases of the brain in humans, scrapie in sheep, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). [e]
- Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. [e]
- Pseudomonas putida [r]: Gram-negative,rod-shaped, saprotrophic soil bacterium which demonstrates a very diverse metabolism, including the ability to degrade organic solvents such as toluene, and is used in bioremediation. [e]
- RNA world hypothesis [r]: Proposes that a world filled with life based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) predated current life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). [e]
- Receptor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Red blood cells [r]: Type of disc-shaped blood cell that contain hemoglobin, and the body's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body's cells via the blood, and the removal of carbon dioxide wastes that result from metabolism. [e]
- Resting potential [r]: Potential difference between the two sides of the membrane of a nerve cell when the cell is not conducting an impulse, the resting potential for a neuron being between 50 and 100 millivolts. [e]
- Sodium [r]: A soft, silvery white, highly reactive element which has the symbol Na and atomic number 11. [e]
- Steroid [r]: Hormone group that controls metabolism, catabolism, growth, electrolyte balance and sexual characteristics. [e]
- Virus (biology) [r]: A microscopic particle that can infect the cells of a biological organism and cannot reproduce without the assistance of the cells it infects. [e]
