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- What is Anticodon?
Anticodon is a sequence made of three bases that are present on the transfer rna (trna) ... - What is Antigen?
Antigen is any substance that is considered foreign by the body's immune system and thus it ... - What is Antigen-Binding Fragment?
Antigen binding fragment is a fragment on the antibody that binds to the antigens. this consists ... - What are Antigen-Presenting Cells (APCs)?
Antigen presenting cells (apcs) are a group of immune cells that assist the cellular immune response ... - What is Antigen Processing?
Antigen processing, also known as cytosolic pathway, is a process of the immune system to prepare ... - What is Antigenic Drift?
Antigenic drift is a process that takes places in viruses to generate variation by accumulating mutations ... - What is Antigenic Shift?
Antigenic shift is the mechanism in which different virus's strains combine together to create a new ... - What is Antigenic Variation?
Antigenic variation is a mechanism that is adopted by infectious agents or microbes such as bacterium, ... - What is Antimetabolite?
Antimetabolites are drugs that block the metabolic pathway functions by acting substitutes to the original metabolites ... - What is Antisense RNA?
Antisense rna also known as natural antisense transcript, antisense oligonucleotide or as asantisense transcript, is a ... - What is Antiserum?
Antisera are present in humans' blood or in other organisms and are a part of their ... - What is Antitoxin?
Antitoxins are antibodies which help to neutralize any toxin. these antibodies can be produced in response ... - What is Apical Complex?
Apical complex is the cell structure that is characteristic of phylum apicomplexa. this is the main ... - What is Apicomplexan?
Apicomplexa are parasitic alveolates, which mostly have a distinct organelle that has a plastid known as ... - What is Apicoplast?
Apicoplasts are plastids, which are non-photosynthetic and are mostly found in apicomplexa. they are known as ... - What is Apoenzyme?
Apoenzymes are inactive parts of enzymes that have nonprotein components attached with them. these enzymes become ... - What is Apoptosis?
Apoptosis is a natural death of cell that is programmed and this process occurs in organisms ... - What is Aporepressor?
Aporepressors are inactive protein repressors; however, once they combine with specific corepressor, they become activated and ... - What is Appressorium?
Appressorium is a cell that is commonly found in plant infecting fungi that helps to infect ... - What is Aptamer?
Aptamer is a peptide or an oligonucleotide molecule that binds to a target molecule such as ... - What is Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) Fungi?
Arbuscular mycorrhizas or endomycorrhizas are the mychorrhizas in which am fungi or symbiont fungus enter the ... - What is Archaerhodopsin?
Archaerhodopsin is a receptor protein family found in archaea. these proteins respond to light and is ... - What are Arthroconidia (Arthrospores)?
Arthroconidia are fungal spores that are produced by fragmentation or segmentation from the already present fungal ... - What is Artificially Acquired Active Immunity?
Artificially acquired active immunity is a type of immunity that is produced when a person is ... - What is Artificially Acquired Passive Immunity?
Artificially acquires passive immunity is a type of immunization that provides short-term immunity by transferring the ... - What is Artemisinin?
Artemisinin is a drug that is used against malaria (caused by plasmodium falciparum) and helps to ... - What is Ascocarp?
Ascocarps or ascomata is ascomycete's fruiting body. it is made of hyphae, which is tightly interwoven ... - What is Ascogenous Hypha?
This type of hyphae, in ascomycota's fungi, originates in the ascogonium after it gets fused with ... - What is Ascomycetes?
Ascomycetes are the structures where spores are made within the asci (microscopic cells). the asci may ... - What is Ascospore?
Ascospores are spores that are carried by asci or were produced inside the asci. this type ... - What is Ascus?
Asci are the sexual spore-bearing cells, which are made in ascomycete fungi. usually eight ascospores are ... - What is Aseptate Hypha?
Aseptate hyphae are a type of fungi in which the hyphae are divided in cellular compartments ... - What is Associative Nitrogen Fixation?
Associative n fixation (anf) is a procedure in which dinitrogen gas is transformed to ammonia by ... - What is ATP Synthase?
Atp synthase is an enzyme that creates a molecule which stores energy and is called adenosine ... - What is Attack Rate?
The attack rate, in epidemiology is the bio-statistical proportion of recurrence of morbidity, or speed of ... - What is Attenuated Vaccine?
An attenuated immunization is an antibody made by decreasing the destructiveness of a pathogen, yet at ... - What is Attenuator?
Attenuator is a nucleotide sequence that is present in the operon's leader region. depending on the ... - What is Autochthonous?
Autochthonous are the substances or nutrients that initiate from a given environment and remain native to ... - What is Autoclave?
Autoclave is an instrument that sterilizes liquids, hollows, solids and other instruments of various sizes and ... - What is Autogenous Infection?
The meaning of prefix "auto" is self or within. this indicates that the infection is transmitted ... - What is Autoimmune Disease?
An autoimmune disease is a condition emerging from an abnormal immune reaction to an ordinary body ... - What is Autoinducer?
Autoinducers are molecules that are involved in signaling and are produced in response to the alterations ... - What is Autoinduction?
Autoinduction is a process in which a molecule or substance would induce other molecule to increase ... - What is Autophagocytosis?
Autophagy, additionally called autophagocytosis, is the degradation of abnormal, worn or disfunctioning components of cells and ... - What is Autoradiography?
Autoradiography is the utilization of x-rays (or every so often photographic) film to recognize radioactive materials. ... - What is Auxotroph?
An auxotroph, when compared with the parental organism from which it is derived, needs additional nutritional ... - What is Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI)?
Average nucleotide identity (ani) compares the nucleotide similarity among the coding regions of two genomes. the ... - What is Avidity?
Avidity is the concept that measures the stability of the antigen-antibodies complex and this is determined ... - What is Axenic?
Axenic is a term used in biology to describe a type of culture that is not ... - What is Axopodium?
Axopodium is a pseudopodium, which contains an axial rod covered by an ectoplasmic sheath that is ... - What is Azidothymidine (AZT)?
Azidothymidine, also known as zidovudine, is a medication that is antiretroviral and helps to treat and ... - What is B7 (Cd80) Protein?
B7 is a peripheral membrane protein present on apcs or antigen presenting cells which when combined ... - What is Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)?
Bcg or bacillus calmette-guerin vaccine is commonly used to prevent tuberculosis. one dose of bcg vaccine ... - What is Bacillus?
Bacillus is a rod-shaped bacterium and is gram positive. it may survive under aerobic or anaerobic ... - What are Bacteremia?
Bacteremia is a state, which is used to describe the presence of bacteria in blood. this ... - What is Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC)?
Bacterial artificial chromosome is made of dna and is commonly used to cloning and transforming in ... - What is Bactericide?
A bactericide is an agent or a substance that is used to kill the bacteria. these ... - What is Bacteriocin?
Bacteriocins are peptide or proteinaceous toxins made by bacteria to stop the growth of closely related ... - What is Bacteriophage (Phage) Typing?
Phage typing is a technique that is utilized to detect single bacterial strains. this method helps ... - What is Bacteriostatic?
Bacteriostat or bacteriostatic agent is a chemical or biological agent that stops or inhibits the bacterial ...