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• Food Additives
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  Saliva

  Saliva is the watery and usually somewhat frothy substance produced in the mouths of some animals, including humans. Produced in salivary glands, saliva is 98% water, but it contains many important ... > more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Biochemistry Research
  Nature
  Biology
   
  

  Natural selection

  Natural selection is the phrase Charles Darwin used in 1859 for the process he proposed to explain the origin of species and their apparent adaptation to their environment. Along with the rules of ... > more
• Mice
  Rodents
  Genetically Modified
  Animals
  Sports Medicine
  Mammals
   
  

  House mouse

  Mus musculus is the common house mouse. This mouse is believed to be the second most populous mammalian species on Earth, after Homo sapiens. House mice almost always live in close proximity of ... > more
• Molecular Biology
  Genetics
  Cell Biology
  Genes
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  Protein structure

  Proteins, similar to carbohydrates and lipids, are made up of such elements as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are amino acid chains, made up from 20 different L-alpha-amino acids, also referred to ... > more
• Genes
  Human Biology
  Biochemistry Research
  Healthy Aging
  Genetics
  Biotechnology
   
  

  Telomere

  A telomere is a region of highly repetitive DNA at the end of a linear chromosome that functions as a disposable buffer. Every time linear chromosomes are replicated during late S phase, the DNA ... > more
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Developmental Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Birth Defects
  Sports Medicine
   
  

  Embryo

  In organisms that reproduce sexually, once a sperm fertilizes an egg cell, the result is a cell called the zygote that has all the DNA of two parents. In plants, animals, and some protists, the ... > more
• Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Mating and Breeding
  Nature
  Pests and Parasites
  Seeds
   
  

  Plant sexuality

  Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. This article describes morphological aspects of sexual reproduction of plants. That plants ... > more
• Ecology Research
  Nature
  Marine Biology
  Extinction
  Endangered Plants
  Food
   
  

  Trophic level

  In ecology, the trophic level is the position that an organism occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it. Wildlife biologists look at a natural "economy of energy" that ultimately ... > more
• Human Biology
  Biology
  Today's Healthcare
  Women's Health
  Stroke Prevention
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Anatomy

  Anatomy is the branch of biology that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that can include human anatomy, animal anatomy (zootomy) and plant anatomy ... > more
• Fertility
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Mating and Breeding
  Stem Cells
  Sports Medicine
  Cell Biology
   
  

  Spermatozoon

  A spermatozoon or spermatozoan (pl. spermatozoa), and more commonly known as a sperm cell, is the haploid cell that is the male gamete. It joins an ovum to form a zygote. A zygote can grow into a new ... > more

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