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When one speaks of the various polypeptide products, the names and symbols refer to different things (i.e., preproglucagon, proglucagon, glucagon, GLP1, GLP2), but when one speaks of the gene, all of those names and symbols are aliases for the same gene.
This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.
An acronym is a special type of abbreviation that can be pronounced as a single word (it can be said), while all other abbreviations are pronounced letter by letter (you say each letter individually or spell it out).
The Bio-Dictionary helps you to understand common terms in biology. Definitions come in the form of a figure with accompanying text, a short video, or both.
This is a list of terms and symbols used in scientific names for organisms, and in describing the names. For proper parts of the names themselves, see List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names. Note that many of the abbreviations are used with or without a stop.
1 maj 2021 · This ‘Handbook for Biology Glossary’ is a list of the most important and common prefixes and suffixes in biology, besides more than 1600 definitions of terms and concepts used in different...
General Guidelines. Please only use approved gene/protein names and symbols in your manuscript. Please check each gene/protein name and symbol in the appropriate database. Where a gene/protein name or symbol is no longer valid, please use the current, approved designation and then add in parenthesis (previously known as xxx).
