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Birds

robin cardinal oriole finch crow pelican flamingo hawk pigeon thrush duck toucan goose ostrich dove sparrow rooster turkey owl eagle canary crane sea gull penguin falcon vulture sea hawk mockingbird hummingbird heron

Vegetables

cucumber onion lettuce potato squash endive beets scallion mushroom olive tomato chive zucchini carrot artichoke celery cabbage pepper eggplant broccoli asparagus pea bean sprouts corn avocado cauliflower

Metric System

decimeter hectometer dekaliter quintal gram picogram microgram decimilligram centigram dekagram kilogram megagram teragram nanometer millimeter meter liter megameter terameter microliter microliter /mi·cro·li·ter/ (µL) (mi´kro-le?ter) one millionth (10-6) of a liter.

mi·cro·li·ter
n.
A unit of volume equal to one-millionth (10-6) of a liter.
 deciliter megaliter nanogram centimilligram milligram decigram hectogram hectokilogram gigagram picometer micrometer centimeter dekameter kilometer gigameter picoliter centiliter cen·ti·li·ter
n.
A unit of volume equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a liter or ten milliliters.



centiliter

one-hundredth of a liter; abbreviated cl.
 kiloliter teraliter

Genetics

gene heredity mutation mitosis embryo allele helix clone sequence polymer autosome autosome /au·to·some/ (-som) any non–sex-determining chromosome; in humans there are 22 pairs of autosomes.autoso´mal

au·to·some
n.
 phenotype recessive metaphase locus polymerase telophase oligonucleotide geneticist interphase prophase phage bacteriophage chromomere chromomere /chro·mo·mere/ (kro´mo-mer)
1. any of the beadlike granules occurring in series along a chromonema.

2. granulomere.


chro·mo·mere
n.
1.
 transduction transformation nucleus Mendelian genome meiosis chromosome recombinant pedigree plasmid vector replicon nucleosome chromatography zygote centromere anaphase genotype endonuclease backcross exonuclease polyploidy diakinesis diakinesis /di·a·ki·ne·sis/ (di?ah-ki-ne´sis) the stage of first meiotic prophase in which the nucleolus and nuclear envelope disappear and the spindle fibers form.

di·a·ki·ne·sis
n.
 cytogenetics crossover segregate codominance codominance /co·dom·i·nance/ (ko-dom´i-nins) the full expression in a heterozygote of both alleles of a pair with neither influenced by the other, as in a person with blood group AB.codom´inant  dominance translocation nucleolus

Nervous System

facial trochlear optic phrenic axon dendrite occipital hypoglossal frontal mandibular nasociliary ophthalmic tibial laryngeal hillock bouton median splanchnic hypogastric hypogastric /hy·po·gas·tric/ (-gas´trik)
1. inferior to the stomach.

2. pertaining to the hypogastrium.

3. pertaining to the internal iliac artery.
 femoral genitofemoral plexus pudendal myelin trigeminal abducens oculomotor vagus glossopharyngeal vestibulocochlear accessory auricular maxillary lacrimal supraorbital ethmoidal peroneal endoneurium synapse ganglion antebrachial acetylcholine ramus iliohypogastric subcostal obturator ilioinguinal oligodendrocyte nerve astrocyte
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