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  Infectious Diseases
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  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Anthrax

  Anthrax, also referred to as splenic fever, is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis and is highly lethal in some forms. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and ... > more
• Cloning
  Developmental Biology
  Veterinary Medicine
  Genetics
  Biology
  Cell Biology
   
  

  Dolly the Sheep

  Dolly (July 5, 1996 - February 14, 2003), a ewe, was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived ... > more
• Genes
  Gene Therapy
  Biochemistry Research
  Genetics
  Healthy Aging
  Human Biology
   

  Vector (biology)

  Traditionally in medicine, a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another. Species of mosquito, for example, ... > more
• Gene Therapy
  Life Sciences
  Genes
  Human Biology
  Cloning
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Myosin

  Myosins are a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues. They are responsible for actin-based motility. Most myosin molecules are composed of both a head and a tail domain. The head ... > more
• Genes
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Biochemistry Research
  Human Biology
  Genetics
   

  Trait (biology)

  In biology, a trait or character is a feature of an organism. The term phenotype is sometimes used as a synonym for trait in common use, but strictly speaking, does not indicate the trait, but the ... > more
• Biochemistry
  Organic Chemistry
  Cell Biology
  Molecular Biology
  Genetics
  Biochemistry Research
   
  

  Denaturation (biochemistry)

  Denaturation is the alteration of a protein shape through some form of external stress (for example, by applying heat, acid or alkali), in such a way that it will no longer be able to carry out its ... > more
• Cows, Sheep, Pigs
  Sports Medicine
  Mammals
  Healthy Aging
  Nutrition
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Domestic goat

  The domestic goat is a domesticated subspecies of the Wild Goat. Domestic goats are one of the oldest domesticated species. For thousands of years, they have been utilized for their milk, meat, hair, ... > more
• Birds
  Fish
  New Species
  Nature
  Marine Biology
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Seabird

  Seabirds are birds that spend much of their lives, outside the breeding season at least, at sea. Whilst the seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking ... > more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Mating and Breeding
  Nature
  Animals
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Hybrid

  In biology, hybrid has two meanings. The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are ... > more
• Agriculture and Food
  Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Life Sciences
  Seeds
   
  

  Cotton

  Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and the Americas. The fiber is most often ... > more

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