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Chargaff rule
The rule that in DNA there is always equality in quantity between the bases A and T and between the bases G and C. (A is adenine, T is thymine, G is guanine, and C is cytosine.) Named for the great Austrian-American biochemist Erwin…
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Show more- Spectrophotometer A device which measures the amount of ultraviolet light absorbed by a substance. For example, vitamin A…
- Chromatin The nucleoprotein material of chromosomes. Chromatin is essentially the substance of chromosomes. It is made…
- Keratin Protein in the upper layer of the skin, hair, nails and animal horns. The word keratin comes from the…
- Syndrome, Aase-Smith II See: Aase-Smith syndrome II
- Molluscum contagiosum A contagious disease of the skin marked by the occurrence of rounded soft tumors of the skin caused by the…
- Vitamin B12-responsive methylmalonicaciduria An inherited metabolic (biochemical) disease that, unless effectively treated, causes young children to…
- MCAD deficiency Deficiency of an enzyme that makes it impossible to digest certain kinds of fat. MCAD stands for medium-chain…
- Popcorn worker lung See: Popcorn worker's lung
- Electron microscopy A recording of the eye movements, usually done to confirm the presence of nystagmus. Electronystagmogram may…
- Infection, pork tapeworm Known medically as cysticercosis, an infection caused by Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm). Infection occurs…
- Vaccination, pneumococcal pneumonia
- Lung transplant The first lung transplant was done by the American surgeon James Hardy (1918-) in 1964.