Biology Dictionary
Meanings of biological terminology
EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD GENETICS
Biology Dictionary is a free, concise, illustrated dictionary of biology and medicine. The entries are listed alphabetically, which allows you to find the biology terms you're looking for, even if you're not sure about their spellings. You can also use the dictionary's search engine. Terminology is added to this dictionary on an ongoing basis. To search alphabetically for the meaning of a term, click on its first letter in the table below.
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Acheulean tools >>
Adam Sedgwick >>
Aegyptopithecus >>
Aerobic respiration >>
Afar Depression >>
Agamic complexes >>
Agamospermy >>
Altamira Cave >>
Amazon River Dolphin >>
Ambulocetus >>
Anaphase >>
Animation of DNA replication >>
Archaebacteria >>
Ardipithecus ramidus >>
Australopithecines >>
Australopithecus afarensis >>
Australopithecus africanus >>
Australopithecus anamensis >>
Australopithecus bahrelghazali >>
Australopithecus garhi >>
Australopithecus sediba >>
Binary fission >>
Binomial nomenclature >>
Biology >>
Black widows >>
Bladder anatomy >>
Bonobos (habitat) >>
Branches of biology >>
Brown Recluse Spider >>
Cabinet of curiosities >>
Calcium carbonate >>
Careers in biology >>
Cave art >>
Cave bears >>
Cell >>
Centrioles >>
Centromeres >>
Centrosomes >>
Cheetahs (diet) >>
Cheetah (habitat) >>
Chimpanzee-bonobo hybrids >>
Chimpanzees (habitat) >>
Chimpanzees (pictures) >>
Chromoplasts >>
Chromosome diagram >>
Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway >>
Collagen >>
Coral Reefs >>
Copper >>
Cosmids >>
Cytokinesis >>
Darwin and gradualism >>
Darwin jokes >>
Darwin's autobiography >>
Deer (diet) >>
Discovery of reverse transcriptase >>
Digestive system >>
Divergent evolution >>
Dmanisi >>
Dryopithecines >>
Elephants (diet) >>
Elbow anatomy >>
Endoplasmic reticulum >>
Epithelium >>
Eubacteria >>
Eukaryotic cell >>
Exocytosis >>
Fayum >>
Fluid mosaic model >>
Gallbladder >>
Gigantopithecus >>
Giraffes (diet) >>
Giraffe facts >>
Giraffe habitat >>
Golden Poison Frog >>
Hemolymph >>
Hemotoxin >>
Homo cepranensis >>
Homo erectus >>
Homo ergaster >>
Homo floresiensis >>
Homo georgicus >>
Homo habilis >>
Homo neanderthalensis >>
Homo rudolfensis >>
Homo rhodesiensis >>
Human origins >>
Human hybrids >>
Humboldt Penguin >>
Humboldt Squid >>
Hybrid infertility >>
Hybrid mammals >>
Hybrid plants >>
Hypertonic >>
Immunoglobulins >>
Jumarts >>
Kangaroos (diet) >>
Kenyanthropus platyops >>
Lake Agassiz >>
Lamarck >>
Lascaux Cave >>
Leucoplasts >>
Leukocytes >>
Life cycles >>
Ligers (Lion-tiger hybrids) >>
Lions (diet) >>
Lions (habitat) >>
Linnaeus >>
Louis Agassiz >>
Mammalian hybrids >>
Meiosis animation >>
Meiosis stages >>
Metaphase >>
Microtubules >>
Mitosis >>
Moray eels >>
Mules >>
Natural selection >>
Nematocyst >>
Nitrogen cycle >>
One gene-one enzyme hypoth. >>
Orrorin tugenensis >>
Paranthropus aethiopicus >>
Paranthropus boisei >>
Paranthropus robustus >>
Pierolapithecus >>
Pliny >>
Prokaryotic cell structure >>
Prophase >>
Prophase I >>
Prophase details >>
Prophase II >>
Pterosaurs >>
Reduction division >>
Respiration >>
Reverse transcriptase >>
Ruminant stomach >>
Sahelanthropus tchadensis >>
Sarcomere >>
Scala naturae >>
William Smith >>
Snakes (diet) >>
Spider anatomy >>
Symbiosis >>
Taenia >>
Tardigrades >>
Tasmanian Tiger >>
Telophase >>
Ticks >>
Varves >>
Whip scorpions >>
Whip spiders >>
Whale sharks >>
John Xantus >>
Zebras (habitat) >>
Note: Definitions and explanations in Biology Dictionary are updated on an ongoing basis to keep up with current trends and technology.