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Replication, DNA
A wondrous complex process whereby the ('parent') strands of DNA in the double helix are separated and each one is copied to produce a new ('daughter') strand. This process is said to be 'semi-conservative' since one of each parent strand…
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- Digestive a Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst Diabetes and Diabetes and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Critical incident stress management Cross-shaped. "Cruciate" comes from the Latin "crux" which means "cross". (That is the crux of this matter)…
- Speech therapy The treatment of speech and communication disorders. The approach used depends on the disorder. It may…
- Dysfunction, orgasmic See: Anorgasmia
- Centimorgan (cM) A unit of measure of genetic recombination frequency. One cM is equal to a 1% chance that a marker at one…
- Word deafness See: Auditory aphasia
- Erythrophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of blushing. Sufferers of erythrophobia experience undue anxiety even though…
- Lecithinase See: Phospholipase
- Acellular Not made up of cells or divided into cells. Or lacking intact cells as, for example, an acellular vaccine…
- Nerve, seventh cranial The seventh cranial nerve is the facial nerve, a mixed nerve that has fibers both going out and coming in…