Encyclopedia of Biology

model A synthetic COORDINATIONentity that closely approaches the properties of a metal ion in a protein and yields useful inform ...

Moniz, António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas (1874–1955) PortugueseNeuroscientist António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz was ...

monogamy The practice of having one mate at a time, lifelong pair bonding. monogyny Insocial insects, having one queen per nest, ...

TheMorgan is now the unit of measurement of distances along all chromosomes in flies, mice, and humans. The University of Kentuc ...

228 motor neuron Silk Degrees: A Tale of Moths and People, Part Two By James G. (Spider) Barbour Recreational domestication of o ...

motor neuron 229 plants in places judged to be relatively free of predators and parasites. That’s the easy part. Nursing the cat ...

motor unit A single motor neuron and the entire complement of muscle cells that receive synaptic con- nections from it. MPF(M-ph ...

increases prior to mitosis, combines with the cyclin- dependent protein kinase, and forms an active MPF complex. The MPF phospho ...

wildlife and it was banned in 1970. He died on Octo- ber 12, 1965, in Basel. Müllerian mimicry Refers to a situation where the p ...

Murphy, William Parry 233 Egyptian Mummies: Brief History and Radiological Studies ByWilliam A. Wagle, M.D. Egyptians practiced ...

234 Murphy, William Parry During the 21st dynasty (1085 to 945 B.C.E.) embalmers began wrapping the internal organs with long st ...

Murphy, William Parry 235 One of the mummies had been obtained uncovered from the waist up. X rays performed in the Radiology De ...

Department of Anatomy. At Harvard Medical School, in Boston, he received an M.D. in 1922. In 1924 he was appointed assistant in ...

organism. In the case of site-directed mutagenesis, the substitution or modification of a single amino acid at a defined locatio ...

rhizae form when the fungus hyphae grow between and within the cells of the plant roots. Many species cannot grow without their ...

there are about 2,800 species alive today; there are about 10,000 species of millipedes. myrmecophile Anorganism, such as a beet ...

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NAD+ Oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinu- cleotide. Note that despite the plus sign in the symbol, the COENZYMEis anionic ...

charge, it undergoes a technical screening generally referred to as a completeness review and is evaluated to ensure that suffic ...

the energy is used in plant respiration, so by subtract- ing this from the gross primary production, the net pri- mary productiv ...