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• Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Fertility
  Mating and Breeding
  Healthy Aging
  Developmental Biology
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Fertilisation

  Fertilisation, also spelt fertilization (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy), is fusion of gametes to form a new organism of the same species. In animals, the process involves a sperm ... > more
• Lung Disease
  Healthy Aging
  Hypertension
  Asthma
  Marine Biology
  Lung Cancer
   
  

  Gas exchange

  Gas exchange or respiration takes place at a respiratory surface; a boundary between the external environment and the interior of the body. For unicellular organisms the respiratory surface is simply ... > more
• Biochemistry Research
  Human Biology
  Genes
  Genetics
  Molecular Biology
  Biology
   
  

  Molecular biology

  Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly ... > more
• Nutrition
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Organic Chemistry
  Obesity
  Biochemistry
  Sports Science
   
  

  Carbohydrate

  Carbohydrates are chemical compounds that contain oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon atoms. They consist of monosaccharide sugars of varying chain lengths and that have the general chemical formula ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Liver Disease
  Diabetes
  Molecular Biology
   
  

  Glycogen

  Glycogen is a polysaccharide that is the principal storage form of glucose (Glc) in animal and human cells. Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol in many cell types. Hepatocytes ... > more
• Nervous System
  Fibromyalgia
  Life Sciences
  Neuropathy
  Molecular Biology
  Biology
   

  Motor neuron

  In vertebrates, motor neurons (also called motoneurons) are efferent neurons that originate in the spinal cord and synapse with muscle fibers to facilitate muscle contraction and with muscle spindles ... > more
• Nervous System
  Healthy Aging
  Developmental Biology
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Molecular Biology
  Neuropathy
   
  

  Myelin

  Myelin is an electrically insulating phospholipid layer that surrounds the axons of many neurons. It is an outgrowth of glial cells: Schwann cells supply the myelin for peripheral neurons while ... > more
• Hearing Loss
  Hearing Impairment
  Tinnitus
  Nervous System
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Auditory system

  The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing. The sound waves enter the ear canal, a simple tube (but one which amplifies sounds that are between 3 and 12 kHz). At the far end ... > more
• Genes
  Biochemistry Research
  Human Biology
  Biotechnology
  Genetics
  Cell Biology
   
  

  DNA

  Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living things. All known cellular life and some viruses contain DNA. The main ... > more
• Genes
  Human Biology
  Genetics
  Biochemistry Research
  Gene Therapy
  Evolution
   
  

  Gene

  A gene is a locatable region of genomic sequence, corresponding to a unit of inheritance, which is associated with regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions. ... > more
• Developmental Biology
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Stem Cells
  Molecular Biology
  Cell Biology
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Mammalian embryogenesis

  Mammalian embryogenesis is the process of cell division and cellular differentiation which leads to the development of a mammalian embryo. A mammal develops from a single cell called a zygote, which ... > more
• Hormone Disorders
  Menopause
  Molecular Biology
  Prostate Cancer
  Cell Biology
  Diabetes
   

  Hormone

  A hormone is a chemical messenger from one cell (or group of cells) to another. All multicellular organisms produce hormones including plants. The best-known animal (and human) hormones are those ... > more

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