Glossary of terms used on this site
Glossary of biology.
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pulmocutaneous circulation |
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circulatory system in amphibians; the flow of blood to the lungs and the moist skin for gas exchange |
pulmocutaneous circulation |
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circulatory system in amphibians; the flow of blood to the lungs and the moist skin for gas exchange |
pulmonary circulation |
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flow of blood away from the heart through the lungs where oxygenation occurs and then returns to the heart again |
pump |
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active transport mechanism that works against electrochemical gradients |
punctuated equilibrium |
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model for rapid speciation that can occur when an event causes a small portion of a population to be cut off from the rest of the population |
Punnett square |
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visual representation of a cross between two individuals in which the gametes of each individual are denoted along the top and side of a grid, respectively, and the possible zygotic genotypes are recombined at each box in the grid |
pupil |
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small opening though which light enters |
pure culture |
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growth of a single cell type in the laboratory |
purine |
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pyrimidine |
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type of nitrogenous base in DNA and RNA; cytosine, thymine, and uracil are pyrimidines. |
pyruvate |
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three-carbon sugar that can be decarboxylated and oxidized to make acetyl CoA, which enters the citric acid cycle under aerobic conditions; the end product of glycolysis |