Biology
The most common term used in genetics to describe the observable physical characteristics of an organism caused by the expression of a gene or set of genes.
A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.
Atmospheric gas created naturally by the action of sunlight on molecular oxygen.
This physical property of neutrinos, which was confirmed in the past decade, contradicts earlier assumptions that neutrinos travel at the speed of light.
Molecules with a partial charge.
The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.
A region of the sky that contains a recognizable star pattern and that is used to describe the location of objects in space. These objects appear to stay in place.
Dome shaped intrusion.
The property of a sound wave that is most commonly associated with loudness.
What is amplitude?
Massless packet of energy, which behaves like both a wave and a particle.
What is a Photon?
A passive movement of water molecules through a semi permeable membrane.
The most common name for the temperature-slope or depth-interval over which temperature changes with depth in a lake.
What is Thermocline?
The part of an electric motor that functions as an electromagnet.
An element that undergoes nuclear decay to form a daughter isotope.
Movement into a cell.
A small object in space which orbits a star and is made of a rocky core surrounded by ice, dust particles, and frozen gases.
The general term for a salt of one of the halogens.
Constant given as the amount of electric charge per mole of electrons.
What is the Faraday Constant?
Ionic compounds that can be formed by replacing one or more of the hydrogen ions of an acid with another positive ion.
Folds in the mitochondria that increase the surface area and therefore its ability to produce ATP.
A spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies.
Natural mountain building.
Type of emission, first theorized by Albert Einstein, where a photon interacts with an atom’s electron which, when it returns to a ground state, emits a coherent photon.
What is a Stimulated Emission?
A type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or 'decays' into an atom with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two.