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Asexual
1. Without sexual desire or interest. Someone with seemingly no sexual drive. 2. Referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individual. Yeast can reproduce asexually by budding
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- Endocrinopathy Literally, a disease of an endocrine gland. A medical term for a hormone problem. For example…
- Cytotoxic Toxic to cells, cell-toxic, cell-killing. Any agent or process that kills cells. Chemotherapy and…
- Anfinsen See: Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer, Jr.
- Gene deletion The total loss (or absence) of a gene. Gene deletion plays a role in birth defects and in the development of…
- Parasitosis Infestation or infection with parasites. See also: Delusional parasitosis
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