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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
1) The branch of science concerned with the means and consequences of transmission and generation of the components of biological inheritance. (Stedman, 26th ed)
2) The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited characteristics among similar or related organisms.
3) The scientific study of heredity how particular qualities or traits are transmitted from parents to offspring.
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1) The capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress.
2) An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (emotional resilience).
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1) The capacity to conceive or to induce conception. It may refer to either the male or female.
2) The quality or state of being capable of breeding or reproducing. Used for human and animal populations.
3) The ability to produce children.
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1) The cell center, consisting of a pair of centrioles surrounded by a cloud of amorphous material called the pericentriolar region. During interphase, the centrosome nucleates microtubule outgrowth. The centrosome duplicates and, during mitosis, separates to form the two poles of the mitotic spindle (mitotic spindle apparatus).
2) A centrosome is a cellular structure involved in the process of cell division. Before cell division, the centrosome duplicates and then, as division begins, the two centrosomes move to opposite ends of the cell. Proteins called microtubules assemble into a spindle between the two centrosomes and help separate the replicated chromosomes into the daughter cells.
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1) The cell line from which egg or sperm cells (gametes) are derived.
2) A germ line is the sex cells (eggs and sperm) that are used by sexually reproducing organisms to pass on genes from generation to generation. Egg and sperm cells are called germ cells, in contrast to the other cells of the body that are called somatic cells.
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1) The cellular organelle in eukaryotes that contains most of the genetic material.
2) The cell structure that houses the chromosomes.
3) A nucleus is a membrane-bound organelle that contains the cell's chromosomes. Pores in the nuclear membrane allow for the passage of molecules in and out of the nucleus.
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1) The cellular organelle in eukaryotes that contains most of the genetic material.
2) The cell structure that houses the chromosomes.
3) A nucleus is a membrane-bound organelle that contains the cell's chromosomes. Pores in the nuclear membrane allow for the passage of molecules in and out of the nucleus.
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1) The chemical or biochemical addition of carbohydrate or glycosyl groups to other chemicals, especially peptides or proteins. Glycosyl transferases are used in this biochemical reaction.
2) chemical or biochemical addition of carbohydrate or glycosyl groups to other chemicals, especially peptides or proteins.
3) The covalent attachment of a glycosyl residue to a substrate molecule.
4) The covalent chemical or biochemical addition of carbohydrate or glycosyl groups to other chemicals, by glycosyl transferases.
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1) The chemical or biochemical addition of carbohydrate or glycosyl groups to other chemicals, especially peptides or proteins. Glycosyl transferases are used in this biochemical reaction.
2) chemical or biochemical addition of carbohydrate or glycosyl groups to other chemicals, especially peptides or proteins.
3) The covalent attachment of a glycosyl residue to a substrate molecule.
4) The covalent chemical or biochemical addition of carbohydrate or glycosyl groups to other chemicals, by glycosyl transferases.
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1) The clear constricted portion of the chromosome at which the chromatids are joined and by which the chromosome is attached to the spindle during cell division.
2) The point or region on a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis and meiosis -- called also kinetochore.
3) A centromere is a constricted region of a chromosome that separates it into a short arm (p) and a long arm (q). During cell division, the chromosomes first replicate so that each daughter cell receives a complete set of chromosomes. Following DNA replication, the chromosome consists of two identical structures called sister chromatids, which are joined at the centromere.
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