A | B |
Family | Up and Down column of the periodic table |
Favored | treated with preference or partiality |
Filter | a porous article or mass (as of paper or sand) through which a gas or liquid is passed to separate out matter in suspension |
folding | process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation |
food chain | a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc. |
food web | a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. |
fossils | the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil |
frequency | condition of occurring repeatedly at short intervals |
galaxy | a large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from similar systems by vast regions of space |
gamete | look up |
gamma waves | A gamma wave is a pattern of brain waves, with a frequency between 25 to 100 |
Gene Expression | Conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a proteinĀ |
Generalize | to infer (a general principle, trend) from particular facts, statistics, or the like |
generating sources | sources that generate electricity |
Genetics | science of heredity and variation in living organisms |
Genotype | genetic makeup of an organism |
Genus | The taxonomic category consisting of very closely related species |
Geologic Time | The succession of eras, periods, and epochs as considered in historical geology. |
geothermal | look up |
glaciation | the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action; |
golgi body | an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell. |
Great Basin bioregion | look up |
greenhouse effect | Heating of the atmosphere that results from the absorption of solar radiation by certain gases.( carbon dioxide, water, etc) |
greenhouse gases | Atmospheric gases that retain more energy from outgoing infra-red radiation than from incoming solar radiation. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) & water. ... |
Groups | A vertical column of elements in the periodic table |
guanine | A purine base, C5H5ON5, that is an essential constituent of both RNA and DNA |