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- 13:03, 5 September 2023 Thanatosis (hist) [221 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A state that in some respects resembles shock, is characterized by cessation of all voluntary activity and usually by assumption of a posture suggestive of death, and occurs i...")
- 13:38, 25 August 2023 Monosodium glutamate (hist) [383 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. MSG is found naturally in some foods including tomatoes and cheese in this glu...")
- 13:35, 25 August 2023 Chinese restaurant syndrome (hist) [155 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An illness marked by short attacks of weakness, numbness, palpitations, and headaches, often attributed to overconsumption of monosodium glutamate.")
- 19:42, 15 August 2023 Vegetable (hist) [766 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In botanical terms, vegetables encompass various edible parts of plants that aren't necessarily fruits. However, in the culinary and cultural context, the term "vegetable" is...")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Water mold (hist) [65 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic protist that grows as nutrient-absorbing filaments.")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Trypanosome (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Parasitic flagellate with a single mitochondrion and a membrane-encased flagellum.")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Stramenopiles (hist) [165 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Protist lineage that includes the photosynthetic diatoms and brown algae, as well as the heterotrophic water molds. Some members of the group have a hairy flagellum.")
- 21:07, 12 July 2023 Radiolarians (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic single-celled protists with a porous silica shell and long cytoplasmic extensions.")
- 21:06, 12 July 2023 Plasmodial slime mold (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Soil-dwelling protist that feeds as a multinucleated mass. Develops into a fruiting body under adverse conditions.")
- 21:06, 12 July 2023 Pellicle (hist) [76 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Layer of proteins that gives shape to many unwalled, single-celled protists.")
- 21:06, 12 July 2023 Foraminifera (hist) [107 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic single-celled protists with a porous calcium carbonate shell and long cytoplasmic extensions.")
- 21:05, 12 July 2023 Flagellated protozoan (hist) [108 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Protist belonging to an entirely or mostly heterotrophic lineage with no cell wall and one or more flagella.")
- 21:05, 12 July 2023 Euglenoid (hist) [113 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Flagellated protozoan with multiple mitochondria; may be heterotrophic or have chloroplasts descended from algae.")
- 21:04, 12 July 2023 Chlorophyte algae (hist) [104 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Heterotrophic protists thought to be the sister group of animals; collared cells strain food from water.")
- 21:04, 12 July 2023 Charophyte algae (hist) [80 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Green algal group that includes the lineage most closely related to land plants.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Cellular slime mold (hist) [151 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Soil-dwelling protist that feeds as solitary cells but congregates under adverse conditions to form a cohesive unit that develops into a fruiting body.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Brown alga (hist) [92 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Multicelled marine protist with a brown accessory pigment (fucoxanthin) in its chloroplasts.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Apicomplexan (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Single-celled alveolate protist that lives as a parasite inside animal cells; some cause malaria or toxoplasmosis.")
- 21:01, 12 July 2023 Amoebozoan (hist) [106 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lineage of heterotrophic, unwalled protists that live in soils and water; include amoebas and slime molds.")
- 21:00, 12 July 2023 Alveolate (hist) [116 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Member of a protist lineage having small sacs beneath the plasma membrane; dinoflagellate, ciliate, or apicomplexan.")
- 00:25, 29 June 2023 Parasitoidism (hist) [379 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Parasitoidism is a specific type of symbiotic relationship in which an organism, known as a parasitoid, relies on a host organism during a particular stage of its life cycle....")
- 14:55, 16 May 2023 Self-serving attributions (hist) [368 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Self-serving attributions are when we are more likely to assign an internal attribute to our behavior when it is good and an external attribute to our behavior when it is bad....")
- 14:55, 16 May 2023 Fundamental attribution error (hist) [280 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''fundamental attribution error''' is the tendency to make internal attributions and ignore external, situational factors when explaining the behavior of other people. '...")
- 14:54, 16 May 2023 Impression formation (hist) [179 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Impression formation is creating an overall impression of a person based on many pieces of information. '''Example:''' Asch’s studies on impressions using warm and cold tra...")
- 14:35, 16 May 2023 That’s Not All (hist) [195 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The that’s-not-all tactic involves adding extras or bonuses before asking for a commitment. Example: An infomercial selling a set of knives throws in a cutting board and c...")
- 14:35, 16 May 2023 Low-ball tactic (hist) [211 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The low-ball tactic involves getting someone to commit to a request and then changing the deal. Example: A car salesman who comes back and says that the car is available but...")
- 14:35, 16 May 2023 Door-in-the-face (hist) [257 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The door-in-the-face tactic is when an unreasonable request is followed by a smaller, more reasonable one. Example: A teenager asks for $100 to go out on the weekend. After...")
- 14:34, 16 May 2023 Foot-in-the-door (hist) [345 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The foot-in-the-door tactic involves getting someone to agree to a small request so that they are more likely to agree when you follow up later with a big request (the goal)....")
- 11:34, 8 May 2023 Wnt protein (hist) [185 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Member of a family of extracellular signal molecules that regulates cell proliferation and migration during embryonic development and that maintains stem cells in a proliferat...")
- 11:34, 8 May 2023 Bcl2 family (hist) [124 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Related group of intracellular proteins that regulates apoptosis; some family members promote cell death, others inhibit it.")
- 11:33, 8 May 2023 Bacteriorhodopsin (hist) [166 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Pigmented protein found in abundance in the plasma membrane of the salt-loving archaeon Halobacterium halobium; pumps protons out of the cell, fueled by light energy.")
- 11:33, 8 May 2023 Aster (hist) [98 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Star-shaped array of microtubules emanating from a centrosome or from a pole of a mitotic spindle.")
- 22:11, 8 February 2023 Temporomandibular joint (hist) [116 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The temporomandibular joint is a hinge joint that connects the jawbone (mandible) to the skull at the temporal bone.")
- 21:42, 31 January 2023 Postpartum psychosis (hist) [255 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Refers to severe symptoms including hallucinations, delusions, manic episode(s), loss of inhibitions, feeling suspicious, restlessness, confusion and behaving in ways which ar...")
- 10:38, 16 December 2022 Cnidaria (hist) [366 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cnidarians, also known as coelenterates, diverse group of aquatic, invertebrate animals armed with microscopic stinging structures. Cnidarians make up the phylum Cnidaria, whi...")
- 14:25, 3 December 2022 Lauric acid (hist) [114 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lauric acid is a fatty acid, esters of which occur in natural substances such as coconut milk and palm kernel oil.")
- 01:06, 5 August 2022 Pyromania (hist) [573 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "This impulse control disorder refers to the compelling and intense desire to prepare, start, or watch fires. It is a relatively rare disorder; even among fire starters, only 2...")
- 10:34, 28 June 2022 Librations (hist) [249 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In lunar astronomy, '''libration''' is the wagging or wavering of the Moon perceived by Earth-bound observers and caused by changes in their perspective. It permits an observe...")
- 12:59, 24 May 2022 Stargardt disease (hist) [317 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Stargardt disease is a rare genetic eye disease that happens when fatty material builds up on the macula — the small part of the retina needed for sharp, central vis...")
- 01:30, 2 March 2022 Equivalence point (hist) [316 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The equivalence point, or stoichiometric point, of a chemical reaction is the point at which chemically equivalent quantities of reactants have been mixed. For an acid-base re...")
- 20:19, 27 February 2022 Great Circle (hist) [97 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A circle drawn on a sphere is a '''great circle''' if it divides the sphere into two equal parts.")
- 21:10, 19 February 2022 Zygomycota (hist) [335 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Terrestrial fungi. Most dwell in soil and decompose dead plants and animals. The group also includes black bread mold and some animal parasites. Reproduce sexually using thick...")
- 21:10, 19 February 2022 Deuteromycota (hist) [389 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Large and diverse fungi in which the sexual stage either does not exist or is not known. One soil-dwelling species is the source of cyclosporine, an immune-suppressant drug th...")
- 21:08, 19 February 2022 Chytridiomycota (hist) [403 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Smallest and simplest fungi. Found in oceans, streams, lakes, and moist soil. They feed on decaying or living organisms and are important decomposers in aquatic ecosystems....")
- 21:08, 19 February 2022 Basidiomycota (hist) [318 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Includes edible and poisonous mushrooms. Many species are plant parasites and cause extensive crop damage. Form sexual spores in club-shaped structures called basidia. '''Com...")
- 21:05, 19 February 2022 Ascomycota (hist) [371 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Largest group of fungi; includes yeasts, lichens, morels, truffles, and cup fungi. Responsible for many plant diseases such as powdery mildew and Dutch elm disease. Reproduce...")
- 12:56, 14 February 2022 Bacteremia (hist) [71 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Bacteremia is the presence of viable bacteria in the circulating blood.")
- 19:26, 23 January 2022 Hereditarianism (hist) [127 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The mistaken idea that human traits are determined solely by genetic inheritance, ignoring the contribution of the environment.")
- 15:35, 1 January 2022 Water beetle (hist) [2,162 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "<gallery> https://biology-forums.com/gallery/43/6_01_01_22_2_33_12.jpeg|Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=43944 </gallery> '''Water Beetl...")
- 15:18, 1 January 2022 Whirligig Beetle (hist) [1,367 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Whirligig Beetle''', common name for a type of water beetle that swims in irregular but graceful curves on the surface of the water when it is disturbed. Found in tempe...")
- 14:48, 27 December 2021 Kinetoplast (hist) [155 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The kinetoplast is a specialized region of the mitochondria of trypanosomatids that harbors the most complex and unusual mitochondrial DNA found in nature.")
- 14:35, 27 December 2021 Myopathy (hist) [268 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Myopathy is a general term referring to any disease that affects the muscles that control voluntary movement in the body. Patients experience muscle weakness due to a dysfunct...")
- 15:20, 6 December 2021 Stab cultures (hist) [127 bytes] Duddy (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A culture produced by inserting an inoculating needle with inoculum down the centre of a solid medium contained in a test tube.")
- 13:41, 29 October 2021 Transitivity of Divisibility (hist) [298 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "If one number divides a second and the second number divides a third, then the first number divides the third. This is one of the most useful properties of divisibility is th...")
- 18:57, 17 October 2021 Goldbach's conjecture (hist) [172 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in mathematics. It states that "Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes."")
- 10:23, 16 October 2021 Fallacy (hist) [199 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be b...")
- 16:26, 3 October 2021 Adsorptivity (hist) [142 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Adsorptivity is the ability to adsorb. The greater the adsorptivity of a substrate, the more readily and strongly a substance will bind to it.")
- 20:11, 26 August 2021 Right triangular prism (hist) [150 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A right triangular prism is a prism with two parallel and congruent triangular faces and three rectangular faces perpendicular to the triangular ones.")
- 20:03, 26 August 2021 Lateral surface (hist) [119 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''lateral surface''' of an object is all of the sides of the object, excluding its base and top (when they exist).")
- 21:28, 30 June 2021 Carboxyhemoglobin (hist) [136 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Carboxyhemoglobin is a stable complex of carbon monoxide and hemoglobin that forms in red blood cells upon contact with carbon monoxide.")
- 21:28, 30 June 2021 Carboxyhemoglobinemia (hist) [266 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The presence of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood. '''Carboxyhemoglobin''', hemoglobin that has carbon monoxide bound to it, is formed in carbon monoxide poisoning, as from e...")
- 21:15, 29 June 2021 Quantitative trait loci (hist) [55 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Two or more genes that act on a single polygenic trait.")
- 21:15, 29 June 2021 General cognitive ability (hist) [102 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Characteristics that include verbal and spatial abilities, memory, speed of perception, and reasoning.")
- 21:13, 29 June 2021 Familial hypercholesterolemia (hist) [138 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Autosomal dominant disorder with defective or absent LDL receptors. Affected individuals are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease.")
- 21:13, 29 June 2021 Essential hypertension (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Elevated blood pressure, consistently above 140/90mm Hg.")
- 21:13, 29 June 2021 Concordance (hist) [49 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Agreement between traits exhibited by both twins.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Dermatoglyphics (hist) [64 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The study of the skin ridges on fingers, palms, toes, and soles.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Correlation coefficient (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Measures of the degree to which variables vary together.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Genetic variance (hist) [95 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The phenotypic variance of a trait in a population that is attributed to genotypic differences.")
- 21:11, 29 June 2021 Environmental variance (hist) [104 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The phenotypic variance of a trait in a population that is attributed to differences in the environment.")
- 21:10, 29 June 2021 Regression to the mean (hist) [159 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In a polygenic system, the tendency of offspring of parents with one of the extreme phenotypes to exhibit phenotypes that are closer to the population average.")
- 21:10, 29 June 2021 Complex trait (hist) [143 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Traits controlled by multiple genes and the interaction of environmental factors where the contribution of genes and environment are undefined.")
- 21:09, 29 June 2021 Continuous variation (hist) [127 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A distribution of phenotypic characters that is distributed from one extreme to another in overlapping, or continuous, fashion.")
- 21:09, 29 June 2021 Discontinuous variation (hist) [71 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Phenotypes that fall into two or more distinct, nonoverlapping classes.")
- 22:25, 12 June 2021 Mitochondrial Eve (hist) [777 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the field of human genetics, the name Mitochondrial Eve refers to the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all currently living anatomically modern humans, who...")
- 21:23, 29 May 2021 Pedigree construction (hist) [110 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Use of family history to determine how a trait is inherited, and to determine risk factors for family members.")
- 21:23, 29 May 2021 Segregation (hist) [81 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The separation of members of a gene pair from each other during gamete formation.")
- 21:22, 29 May 2021 Dominant trait (hist) [58 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The trait expressed in the F1 (or heterozygous) condition.")
- 21:22, 29 May 2021 Recessive trait (hist) [96 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The trait unexpressed in the F1, but which is re-expressed in some members of the F2 generation.")
- 21:13, 29 May 2021 Camptodactyly (hist) [82 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A dominant human genetic trait that is expressed as immobile bent, little fingers.")
- 21:12, 29 May 2021 Expressivity (hist) [56 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The range of phenotypes resulting from a given genotype.")
- 21:11, 29 May 2021 Muscular dystrophy (hist) [187 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A group of genetic diseases associated with progressive degeneration of muscles. Two of these, Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, are inherited as X-linked, allelic, rece...")
- 21:09, 29 May 2021 Marfan syndrome (hist) [113 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An autosomal dominant genetic disorder that affects the skeletal system, the cardiovascular system, and the eyes.")
- 21:08, 29 May 2021 Exocrine gland (hist) [211 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Exocrine glands are glands that secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct. Examples of exocrine glands include sweat, salivary, mammary, ceruminous, lacri...")
- 13:16, 2 April 2021 Nocturnality (hist) [110 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.")
- 13:16, 2 April 2021 Camouflage (hist) [307 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as s...")
- 13:15, 2 April 2021 Crypsis (hist) [521 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In ecology, '''crypsis''' is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Met...")
- 19:58, 22 March 2021 Erucic acid (hist) [288 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Erucic acid is a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid, which is present in the oil-rich seeds of the Brassicaceae family of plants, particularly rapeseed and mustard. It mainly...")
- 19:58, 22 March 2021 Glycosinolate (hist) [416 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Glucosinolates are natural components of many pungent plants such as mustard, cabbage, and horseradish. The pungency of those plants is due to mustard oils produced from gluco...")
- 21:11, 4 March 2021 Equinox (hist) [254 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Time of equal day and night:''' either of the two annual crossings of the equator by the Sun, once in each direction, when the length of day and night are approximately equ...")
- 11:39, 1 March 2021 Arthritis (hist) [799 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Arthritis is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis.[ The most common form of arthritis is...")
- 23:29, 28 February 2021 Gastroesophageal reflux (hist) [271 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when stomach acid frequently flows back into the tube connecting your mouth and stomach (esophagus). This backwash (acid reflux)...")
- 16:39, 3 December 2020 Closed mortgage (hist) [170 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A closed mortgage has a limit towards any additional payments made towards your mortgage, any additional payments over this limit occurs a penalty. Category:Business")
- 16:38, 3 December 2020 Open mortgage (hist) [129 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "An open mortgage allows you to make additional payments towards your mortgage at any time without penalty. Category:Business")
- 21:17, 20 November 2020 Antineoplastic drug (hist) [290 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Antineoplastic drugs are medications used to treat cancer. Antineoplastic drugs are also called anticancer, chemotherapy, ''chemo'', cytotoxic, or hazardous drugs. These d...")
- 23:33, 12 November 2020 Argyria (hist) [203 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Argyria is a rare skin condition associated with chronic exposure to products containing silver. The silver is typically deposited diffusely in skin, fingernails, oral mucosa,...")
- 23:11, 10 November 2020 Frustum (hist) [273 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In geometry, a frustum is the portion of a solid (normally a cone or pyramid) that lies between one or two parallel planes cutting it. A right frustum is a parallel truncation...")
- 10:31, 2 November 2020 Bacterial conjunctivitis (hist) [307 bytes] Bio man (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Bacterial conjunctivitis''' is a common type of ''pink eye'', caused by bacteria that infect the eye through various sources of contamination. The bacteria can be spread th...")
- 22:30, 30 October 2020 Human Advisor (hist) [214 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A person you meet with in person, or by video chat or phone, who receives a salary or commission for providing you with financial advice or service for your investment and ins...")
- 22:29, 30 October 2020 Direct Investing/Online Discount Brokerage Platform (hist) [150 bytes] Bolbol (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A platform allows you buy or sell stocks, bonds, mutual funds or other investment products directly online or on the telephone. Category:Business")