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- 02:29, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-156) . . Systemic circulation: (Redirected page to Systemic circulation) (current)
- 02:29, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+191) . . N Systemic circulation (Created page with "The pumping of blood from the left side of the heart to the body to drop off oxygen and nutrients and pick up carbon dioxide and wastes. The blood then returns to the right side ...") (current)
- 02:28, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+329) . . N Biologist (Created page with "A biologist is a scientist who studies living organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanis...") (current)
- 02:28, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+83) . . N Neurologist (Created page with "A specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nervous system.") (current)
- 02:27, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+10) . . Electroencephalogram (current)
- 02:27, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+69) . . Neurogenesis (current)
- 02:26, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+192) . . N Neurofibromatosis (Created page with "A human disease with tumours of nerve cells all over the body and pigmented spots in the skin. The allele generally arises from germinal mutation, but it is inherited as an autos...") (current)
- 02:26, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . Neuroblast (current)
- 02:25, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+74) . . N Neuregulin (Created page with "Diverse family of more than 15 proteins, all generated from a single gene.") (current)
- 02:25, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+262) . . N Nephropathy (Created page with "Disease of the kidneys caused by damage to the small blood vessels or to the units in the kidneys that clean the blood. Commonly accompanies later stages of diabetes mellitus; it...") (current)
- 02:24, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+111) . . N Neoteny (Created page with "The persistence in the reproductively-mature adult of characters usually associated with the immature organism.") (current)
- 02:24, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+75) . . N Neomorph (Created page with "Mutant showing a novel substance or structure not found in wild-types. <br>") (current)
- 02:24, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+241) . . Neocortex (current)
- 02:23, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . Assortative mating (current)
- 02:23, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+62) . . N Negative assortative mating (Created page with "Preferential mating between phenotypically different partners.") (current)
- 02:22, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,712) . . N Neddylation (Created page with "Nedd8 is a ubiquitin-like small protein modifier. The Nedd8 conjugation process, called neddylation, is similar to ubiquitination. Neddylation utilizes the E1 activating-enzyme c...") (current)
- 02:22, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+157) . . N Nearest-neighbour analysis (Created page with "A technique of transferring radioactive atoms between adjacent nucleotides in DNA used to demonstrate that the two strands of DNA run in opposite directions.") (current)
- 02:16, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+13) . . DNA Structure and Replication Process and History (current)
- 02:16, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+141) . . N Nucleoplasm (Created page with "Also known as: karyolymph, karyoplasm. The fluid contained within the nucleus of a eukaryote in which the chromosomes and nucleoli are found.") (current)
- 02:15, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N Necrotroph (Created page with "An organism that causes the death of host tissues as it grows through them such that it is always colonising dead substrate.")
- 02:14, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+72) . . N Cubitus interruptus (Created page with " Zinc finger transcription factor that mediates Hedgehog signaling.") (current)
- 02:14, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+115) . . N Decapentaplegic (Created page with "Ligand with tgf-beta homology involved early to establishes embryonic dorsal/ventral and later patterns appendages.") (current)
- 02:13, 27 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . N Extramacrochaetae (Created page with "A helix-loop-helix protein lacking a basic motif shown to be involved in the control of cell proliferation in the wing.") (current)
- 02:18, 23 July 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+175) . . N Adaptive evolution (Created page with "Adaptive evolution implies that one form reproduces in greater numbers than others in a population because of being better adapted to the conditions driving natural selection.") (current)
- 21:31, 13 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+777) . . N Huntington's disease (Created page with "Huntington's disease is a disorder passed down through families in which nerve cells in certain parts of the brain waste away, or degenerate. == Causes, incidence, and risk fact...")
- 15:47, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,040) . . N Pyridoxal phosphate (Created page with "An important cofactor that functions in a wide variety of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) is derived from pyridoxine (vitamin B6). PLP is an especially impo...") (current)
- 15:46, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+355) . . N Glutathione (Created page with "A tripeptide (γ-Glu-Cys-Gly) that serves as an antioxidant in erythrocytes (red blood cells) and as a sulfhydryl buffer in all types of animal cells. Glutathione can be oxid...") (current)
- 15:46, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,108) . . N Ascorbate (Created page with "Commonly known as Vitamin C, ascorbate serves as an antioxidant and redox factor for certain hydroxylating enzymes. Interestingly, most mammals can synthesize ascorbate from ...") (current)
- 15:45, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+885) . . N Proline (Created page with "One of the 20 naturally-occurring amino acids. Structurally and chemically unique as the only one of these to have a secondary amine functionality; actually it is a cyclic amino ...") (current)
- 15:44, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+235) . . N Peptidylprolyl isomerase (Created page with "An enzyme that assists protein folding by catalyzing the interconversion of the cis and trans forms of X-Pro peptide bonds, where X is any amino acid and Pro is proline. Also...") (current)
- 15:43, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+240) . . Peptide bond (current)
- 15:42, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+391) . . N Peptide (Created page with "A short, linear chain of amino acids, linked by peptide bonds. A peptide is usually distinguished from a protein simply as a matter of size, or (somewhat equivalently) being ...") (current)
- 15:42, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+345) . . N Ninhydrin (Created page with "A reagent used to detect and quantify amino acids and peptides, as in the products of hydrolysis. A complex reaction with amino groups, involving oxidative deamination, u...") (current)
- 15:41, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,772) . . N Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (Created page with "An important, ubiquitous redox cofactor that functions as a carrier of electron pairs. The oxidized form of the cofactor actually carries a positive charge, and is denoted NAD+ w...") (current)
- 15:40, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . N NAD (Redirected page to Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) (current)
- 15:40, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+374) . . N Aspartate transcarbamoylase (Created page with "The "hemoglobin of enzymology", ATCase is the most extensively-studied example of an allosteric enzyme. The enzyme from ''E. coli'' is a dodecamer consisting of six catalytic sub...") (current)
- 15:39, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+717) . . Pyrimidine (current)
- 15:39, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+453) . . N Orotate (Created page with "Occurring in biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides, orotate (or orotic acid) arises from the cyclization and subsequent oxidation of N-carbamoylaspartate (the product of the...") (current)
- 15:38, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+184) . . N Oligomycin (Created page with "An antibiotic that blocks ATP synthesis in mitochondria due to interference with the ability of ATP synthase to utilize the pH gradient across the inner mitochondrial mem...") (current)
- 15:37, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+634) . . ATP synthase (current)
- 14:42, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+287) . . Chargaff's rules (current)
- 14:42, 10 December 2011 (diff | hist) . . (-248) . . Chargaff's Rules (Redirected page to Chargaff's rules) (current)