General Biology 2 - Molecules and Cells
 
     
 

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A
Absorption of Radiation
Acetyl Coenzyme A
Acid (pH)
Acquired Characteristics
Actin
Activation Energy  Activation Energy
Activation Energy & Catalysts
Activators
Active Sites
Active Transport
Adaptations
Adaptive Radiation
Adenine (Intro)
Adenine
Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP)
Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP)
AMP, Cyclic
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
ATP & Coupled Reactions
Adenosine Triphosphate & Phosphorus
ATP Synthase
Adherens Junctions
Adhesion
Aerobic Respiration
Aerobic Respiration - Mitochondrion
Aerobic Respiration - Origins
Affinity
Age of the Earth
Alarmones
Alcohol Group
Aldehyde Group
Alleles (Mendel)
Alleles and Proteins (Intro)
Allosteric Effects
Alpha vs Beta Linkages
Alpha Carbon
Alternation of Generations
Amine Group
Amino Acids
Amino Terminus
Anaerobic Respirators
Analogous Traits
Anaphase
Anecdotal Evidence
Aneuploidy & Cancer
Animalia
Animal Models
Angiogenesis & Cancer
Anions
Antenna Complex
Antibodies
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Anticodons
Neo-Antigens
Apoptosis
Archaea
Artifacts
Artificial Selection
Asexual Reproduction (Intro)
Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction
Atomic (Mass) Units / AU
Atomic Number
Atomic Weight
  Atoms
Autotrophs

B
Basal Bodies
Base (pH)
Bases, Nitrogenous
Beta vs Alpha Linkages
Binary Fission
Binding Sites, Carriers
Binomial Nomenclature
Blastula
Blending Inheritance
Biochemistry, Comparative
Biogeography
Bioinformatics  Bioinformatics
Bipolar Molecules
Biology Degrees
Blind & Double-blind Tests
Biology Subfields
Bonds, Covalent
Bonding Properties of HONC
Bonds, Hydrogen
Bonds, Ionic
Bonds, Ionic and Water
Bonds, Multiple
Bond Number Potential
Bottleneck Effect
Botulism
Budding

C
C-Terminus / Carboxyl Terminus
C4 (and C3) Photosynthesis
Calvin Cycle
Cambrian Explosion
Cancer Causes
Cancer Gene Census Database
Cancer & Differentiation
Cancer - Early Tumor Formation
Cancer & Epigenetics
Cancer & Evolution
Cancer Immunotherapy
Cancer & Inflammation
Cancer & Microbiome
Cancer & Micro RNAs
Cancer & Mutations
Cancer Prevention
Cancer - Tissue Invasion
Cancer - Tissue Organization Field Theory
Cancer Treatments  Cocktails
Carbohydrates
Carbon and Life
Carbon Dating
Carboxyl Group
Carboxyl Terminus
Careers
Carotenoids
Carriers (Proteins) Carriers
Catalysts
Catalysts & Activation Energy
Catastrophes
Cations
Cell Cultures (for testing)
Cell Cycle
Cell Division in Prokaryotes
Cell Equator
Cell Extensions (Definition)
Cell Extension Structures (List)
Cell Junctions
Cells as Life Feature
Cell Membranes
Cell Plate
Cell Poles
Cell Size Restrictions
Cell Theory (1838)
Cellular Respiration
Cellulose
Cell Walls
Central Vacuoles
Centrioles  Centrioles
Centromeres  Centromeres
Centrosomes  Centrosome
Chance, Role of
Chaperonins
Charges (Atomic)
Chemical Formulas
Chemical Reactions (Introduction)
Chemical Reaction Representation
Chemical Stability and Electrons
Chemosynthesis Origins
Chemotaxis
Chemotherapy
Chirality
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll a
Chloroplasts
Chloroplast Origins
Cholesterol
Christae  Cristae
Chromatin
Chromoplasts
Chromosomal Mutations
Chromosomes (Intro)
Chromosome Number
Chromosome - Eukaryote
Chromosome - Prokaryote
Chromothripsis
Cilia
Cladistics
Clinical Trials
Codons (Intro)
Codon Codes
Codons, START & STOP, etc
Coenzymes
Coenzyme A
Cofactors
Cohesion
Colonial  Colonial Organisms
Colonialism Origins
Comparative Embryology
Competitive Enzyme Inhibition
Complementary Strands (DNA Intro)
Complexes (Protein)
Compound Microscopes
Conformation
Confounding Factors
Connectors
Consumers
Continental Drift
Contractile Vacuoles
Control Groups
Controlled Experiments
Convergent Evolution
Coupled Channels
Coupled Reactions
Covalent Bonds
Creation Theory
Crossing Over
Crossing Over & Linkage
Cytokinesis
Cytoplasm
Cytoplasmic Molecular Complexes
Cytosine (Intro)
Cytosine
Cytoskeleton Components
Cytoskeleton (Definition)
Cytosol

D
Darwin (mid- to late-1800s)
Daughter Cells
Decomposers
Degrees
Dehydration Synthesis
Deletion
Deletion - Chromosomal
Denaturation
Denaturation & Enzyme Function
DNA / Deoxyribonucleic Acid (Intro)
DNA:  Double Helix
DNA as Hereditary Carrier
DNA Methylation
DNA:  Nitrogenous Bases
DNA - Noncoding / Junk
DNA Polymerase
DNA Repair
DNA Replication
DNA Sequencing
Deuterostomes
Development (and Growth)
Differentiation
Differentiation & Cancer
Differentiation - Different Groups
Diffusion
Diffusion, Facilitated
Dinucleotide (NAD)
Dioecious
Diploid
Direct Enzyme Inhibition
Divergent Evolution
Division in Prokaryotes
Domains
Dominant Alleles
Double-blind Tests
Double Bonds
Driver Mutations
Drug Development
Drugs, Generic
Drug Patents
Dynamic Equilibrium
Dynein

E
Earth: Age of
Earth, Early Conditions
Ecosystem
Ectoderm
Egg Cell
Electrical Potential
Electromagnetic Radiation
Electron
Electron Microscope
Electron Transport Chain (Aerobic)  
Electron Transport Chain (Photosynthesis)
Electrons, Valance
Electrons and Chemical Stability
Elements
Electrophoresis of Proteins
Electrophoresis of DNA
Embryology, Comparative
Embryo Stage
Emergent Properties
End Product Inhibition
Endergonic Reactions
Endocytosis
Endoderm
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Endonucleases
Endosymbiosis Theory   Endosymbiosis Theory
Energy in Food Chains
Enzymes (Intro)
Enzymes as Catalysts
Enzyme Inhibition
Enzymes & pH
Enzymes - Regulatory Sites
Enzymes & Temperature
Enzymes - Turnover Number
Epigenetics Section
Epigenetics and Cancer
Epigenetic Factors
Epigenetic Features (Intro)
Epithelium
Epitope
Equilibrium, Dynamic
Equilibrium, Flux
Ethane
Ethyl Alcohol Production
Eukaryote Chromosome
Eukaryote Origins
Eukaryote vs Prokaryote
Evaporation
Evolution (Intro)
Evolution (Details)
Evolution & Cancer
Evolution and Chance
Evolution by Natural Selection (Details)
Evolution by Natural Selection (Intro)
Evolution by Sexual Selection
Evolution as Progress
Evolution Rates
Exergonic Reactions
Exons
Exosomes
Experiment, Controlled
Experimental Group
Extinction & Biblical Beliefs
Extinctions, Mass
Extracellular Matrix

F
Facilitated Diffusion
Fatty Acids
Feedback Control
Female (Egg Cell) vs Male (Sperm)
Ferredoxin
Fertilization
Fetus
Field Tests
First Messenger
Fission, Binary
Flagella
Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide (FAD)
Fluid Mosaic Model
Fluorescence Tagging
Flux
Flux Effects in Cells
Flux, Effects on
Flux Equilibrium
Food Chains
Food Vacuoles
Formulas, Chemicals
Fossil Layers & Age
Fossil Record & Evolution
Fossils & Biblical Beliefs
Fossils: Formation
Founder Effect
Fragmentation
Frequency, Radiation
Functional Groups
Fungi
Fungi Growth Zones
Fusion
Fusion - Chromosomal

G
G Proteins
G1, G2 Stage
Gamma Rays
Gametes
Gap Junctions
Gas Phase
Gastrulation
Gates
Genders
Gender, Male/Female
Genes (Intro)   Genes
Gene - Modern Definition
Genes (Mendel)
Gene Expression
Gene Pool
Genes & Proteins (Intro)
Generic Drugs
Genetic Drift
Genetic Engineering
Genetic Redundancy
Genetic Redundancy - Codon
Genetic Redundancy - Duplication
Genetic Redundancy - Molecular  
Genetic Systems
Genomes
Genome Mapping
Geotaxis
Germ Layers
Glycerol
Glycocalyx
Glycolysis
Golgi Bodies / Complex / Apparatus
Glycosaminoglycans
Gradual vs Punctuated Evolution
Grana
Group Transfer Potential
Group Translocation
Growth and Development
Growth in Multicelled Systems
Growth Zones
Guanine (Intro)
Guanine

H
Heat
Haeckel (late 1800s)
Haploid
Hardy-Weinberg Law
Heat as Energy Loss
Helicase
Helix (Protein)
Heterotroph Hypothesis
Histones
Histone Modification
Homeogenes
Homologous Traits
"HONC"
Hooke, Robert (1665)
Hormones - Lipids
Hormones - Proteins
Hox Genes   Hox Genes
Human Genome Project
Hybrid Vigor
Hydration Shell
Hydrocarbons - Complex
Hydrocarbons - Simple
Hydrogen Bonds
Hydrogen as Electron Carrier
Hydrogen Roles
Hydrogen, Hydronium, & Hydroxide Ions
Hydrogen Ions & pH
Hydrolysis
Hydrophilic
Hydrophobic
Hydrothermal Vents
Hypermutation Event
Hypertonic 
Hypotonic
Hypothesis

I
Ice
Immunotherapy
Impermeable
Indirect Enzyme Inhibition
Inflammation & Cancer
Infrared Radiation
Inhibition
Insertion
Insertion - Chromosomal
Intermediate Filaments
Interphase
Introns
Inversions - Chromosomal
Ionic Bonds
Ionic Bonds and Water
Ionization
Ionization of Water
Ions
Irreversible Inhibition
Isolation
Isolation Types
Isomers
Isomer Types
Isotonic
Isotopes

J
Junctions, Cell
Junk DNA

K
Karyotype
Ketone Group
Kinase
Kinesin
Kinetochores
Kingdoms, 6:  Modern  System
Kingdoms - "Newer"
Knockout Mice
Krebs Cycle

L
Lactic Acid / Lactate
Lamarck
Land, Life on
Larva Stage
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
Leucoplasts
Life - General Features
Life Origins
Life Origins - First Features
Life Origins - Later Features
Ligands  Ligands
Light
Light-Dependent Reaction
Light-Independent Reaction
Light Microscope
Light, Visible
Limiting Factor - Pathway
Limiting Factor - Reactants
Linkage
Linnaeus
Lipids
Lipid Components
Lipid Uses
Lipoproteins
Liquid Phase
Lyell (1830s)
Lysosomes

M
Male (Sperm) vs Female (Egg Cell)
Malpighi, Marcello (1660)
Malthus (early 1800s)
Margulis, Lynn
Markers
Mass Spectroscopy
Mass Units, Atomic / AU
Materials in Food Chains
Matrix, Extracellular
Meiosis
Meiosis I
Meiosis II
Membrane, Cell
Membrane-Based Organelle  (Definition)
Membrane-Based Organelles (List)
Membrane Origins
Membrane Proteins
Memes
Memetic Features (Intro)
Mendel (mid to late 1800s)
Mercaptan Group
Meristem
Messenger RNA (mRNA) (Intro)
Messenger RNA
Mesoderm
Metabolism as Life Function
Metal Roles
Metamorphosis
Metaphase
Metastasis     Progression
Methane
Mice Strains
Michaelis Constant - Km
Michaelis - Menten Kinetics
Microbiome & Cancer
Microcompartments
Microenvironment
Microfilaments
Microscope, Compound
Microscope, Electron
Microscope, Light
Microscope, Scanning
Microscope, Transmission
Microtubules
Microtubule 9 + 2 Arrangement
Microtubule-Organizing Centers (MTOCs)
Microvilli
Mitochondrion
Mitochondrion Origins
Mitosis
Models, Animal
Molecular Clock
Molecular Complexes (Definition)
Molecular Complex Organelles (List)
Molecular Evolution
Molecules
Molecule Polarity
Monera
Monoecious
Monoclonal Antibodies
Monophyletic
Mosaic Development
Mucopolysaccharides
Multicellular 
Multicellular vs Unicellular
Multiple Bonds
Multiple-Gene Traits
Mutagens
Mutations
Mutations and Cancer
Mutations & Chemicals
Mutations, Chromosomal
Mutations & Cell Division
Mutations, Point
Mutations & Radiation
Mutations - Silent   Effects
Mutations - Types
Myosin

N
N-Terminus / Amino Terminus
Natural Selection (Details)
Nemesis
Neo-Antigens
Neurospora
Neurotransmitters
Neutral (pH)
Neutrons
Nicotinamide Adenin (NAD)
Niacin
Niche  Niche
Nitrogen Roles
Nitrogenous Bases
Nitrogenous Wastes
Noncoding DNA
Nondisjunction
Nuclear Complexes
Nuclear Envelope
Nuclear Matrix
Nucleic Acids
Nucleoid
Nucleolus
Nucleoplasm
Nucleosomes
Nucleotides
Nucleus, Atomic
Nucleus, Cell

O
Observation
Okazaki Fragments
Oncogenes
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
Optimum pH
Optimum Temperature
Orbitals / Shells
Organelle, Membrane-Based (Definition)
Organelles, Membrane-Based (List)
Organic (Definition)
Osmosis
Osmosis, Adaptations Against
Osmotic Pressure
Osmosis Resistance & Life on Land
Oxaloacetate
Oxidation
Oxidizing Agent
Oxygen Debt
Oxygen Debt & Cancer
Oxygen Effects, Early Earth
Oxygen Roles

P
Panspermia
Passive Transport
Patents, Drug
Pathways
Peer Review
Peptide Bond
Periodic Table
Permeability
Peroxisomes
pH
pH Scale
Phages
Phagocytosis
Pheromones
Phosphate Group
Phospholipid Molecules
Phosphorus Role
Phosphorylation
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis - Chloroplasts
Photosynthesis - Origins
Photosystems
Phototaxis
Pigments
Pioneer Organisms
Placebo Effect
Plantae
"Plant Problem"
Plant Tissues 
Plasmids  Plasmids  Plasmids
Plasmodesmata
Plastids
Point Mutations
Polar Bodies
Polar Molecules
Polymers
Polymerase Chain Reaction / PCR
Polyphyletic
Polyploidy
Polyspermy
Population Control, Natural
Pores
Position Effect
Postmodernism
Potential, Electrical
Potential, Group Transfer
Potocytosis
Predictions
Primary Structure
Primase
Primordial Soup
Prions
Products
Prokaryote vs Eukaryote
Prokaryote Cell Division
Prokaryote Chromosomes
Promoters
Propane
Prophase
Propionic Acid
Prosthetic Groups
Proteins (Intro)
Proteins & Alleles
Protein Complexes
Proteins & Genes
Protein Structure
Protein Substrates
Protein Synthesis (Intro)
Protein Uses
Protista
Protocells
Protons
Protostomes
Pseudopods
Pumps
Punctuated vs Gradual Evolution
Pyruvic Acid / Pyruvate

Q
Q10
Qualitative Data
Quantitative Data
Quaternary Structure

R
R Group
Radial Cleavage
Radiation Absorption
Radiation & Cancer
Radiation Effects on Life
Radiation Types
Radicals
Radioactive Dating
Radioactivity
Reactants
Reaction Center
Reactions, Chemical (Introduction)
Reactions, Coupled
Reactions, Endergonic
Reactions, Exergonic
Reaction Rates - k, Q, V
Reaction Representation
Receptors (Intro)
Receptors & Transduction
Recessive Alleles
Recycling in Food Chains
Redi, Francisco
Redox
Reducing Agent
Reduction
Reductionism
Redundancy
Redundancy - Codon
Redundancy - Duplication
Redundancy - Molecular 
Regulative Development
Regulatory Sites
Renaturation
Reproducibility
Reproduction, Asexual (Intro)
Reproduction, Sexual (Intro)
Reproduction Types and Evolution
Reradiation
Resolution of Magnifying Devices
Respiration
Respiration Origins
Respiration using Other Molecules
Reversible Inhibition
Restriction Enzymes
Riboflavin
RNA / Ribonucleic Acid (Intro)
RNA & Epigenetics
RNA, Messenger (mRNA) (Intro)
RNA, Messenger
Micro RNAs & Cancer
RNA Polymerase
RNA, Ribosomal
RNA, Transfer (tRNA) (Intro)
RNA, Transfer (tRNA)
RNA Uses
RNA World Hypothesis
Ribosomes  Ribosome
Ribozymes
Root Pressure
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

S
S Stage
Saccharides
Salts
Saturated vs Unsaturated
Scanning Microscope
Scientific Method
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Second Messenger
Secondary Structure
Sectioning
Selectively Permeable
Semiconservative
Semipermeable
Sexual Reproduction (Intro)
Sexual vs Asexual Reproduction
Sexual Selection
Sheet (Protein Structure)
Silicon-Based Life?
Size in Test Groups
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
Snowball Period
Solid Phase
Solutes
Solutions
Solvents
Species - Definition
Southern Blot Technique
Specificity / Stereospecificity (Intro)
Sperm
Spectroscopy, Mass
Spindle
Spindle Fibers  Spindle Fibers
Spiral Cleavage
Spontaneous Generation
Staining
Starches
Starch Uses
Stem Cells, Cancer
Stereospecificity (Intro)
Steroids
Strains, Mice
Stroma  as Tumor Matrix
Stromatolites
Sub- and Super- Groupings
Substitution
Substrates (Ensymes)
Substrates (Protein)
Substrates (Reactants)
Sugars
Sugars and ATP (Intro)
Sugars and Photosynthesis (Intro)
Sugars and Respiration (Intro)
Sugars Uses
Sulfur Role
Super-enhancers
Surface Tension
Symbiotes / Symbionts (Intro)
Synapsis
Synthesis (Intro)
Synthesis, Dehydration (Intro)

T

  
Table (Periodic) Columns  
Table (Periodic) Rows  
Taxis  
Taxonomic Organization Levels  
Taxonomy - Determining Groups  
Taxonomy - Rules for disputes  
Taxonomy - Super- and Sub- groupings  
Telomerase  Telomerase  Cancer Target  
Telomeres  
Telophase  
Temperature & Enzymes  
Tertiary Structure  
Test Group - Need for Numbers / Size  
Thermodynamics, Second Law  
Thiol (Mercaptan) Group  
Thylakoids Thylakoids  
Thymine (Intro)  
Thymine  
Tight Junctions  
Tissues  
Tissue Organization Field Theory (Cancer)  
Topoisomerase  
Toxins as Enzyme Inhibitors  
Transcription (Intro)  
Transcription  
Transduction  
Transfer RNA (tRNA)  
Transfer RNA (tRNA)  
Translation (Intro)  
Translation  
Translocation  
Transmission Microscope  
Transposition  
Triple-blind Tests  
Triple Bonds  
Tropism  
Tubulin  
Tumor  
Tumor Formation  
Tumor Matrix (Stroma)  
Tumors, Secondary  
Tumor Suppressor Genes  
Turgor Pressure  
Turnover Number  
Twins, Identical  

U
Ultraviolet Radiation
Unicellular
Unicellular vs Multicellular
Uniformitarianism
Unsaturated vs Saturated
Uracil (Intro)
Uracil

V
Vacuoles
Valence Electrons
Variable, Experimental
Vesicles
Viruses
Viruses as Primordial Life Survivors
Vitamins
Vmax

W
Wallace (mid- to late-1800s)
Water - Adhesion
Water - Cohesion
Water - Evaporation
Water and Heat
Water as Ice
Water and Ionic Bonds
Water Ionization
Water Properties
Water as Solvent
Water - Surface Tension
Wavelength, Radiation

X
X-Rays

Y
 

Z
Zygote
Zygote and Development
 
     

 

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