My watch list
my.bionity.com  
Login  
ENCYCLOPEDIA

Search Encyclopedia

bionity.com's Life Science Encyclopedia provides articles for 57,945 entries from biotechnology, pharmaceutics, medicine and biology as well as related scientific disciplines.

Definitions

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal (), (June 19 1623 – August 19 1662 ) was a French mathematician , physicist , and religious philosopher . He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied science s where he made important contribut more

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace OM , FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist , explorer , geographer , anthropologist and biologist . He did extensive fieldwork first in the Amazon River basin, and then in the Malay Archipelago , where he identifie more

Menstrual cycle

Menstrual cycle The menstrual cycle is a recurring cycle of physiologic changes that occurs in reproductive age females of several mammals, including human beings and other ape s.) After ovulation the remains of the dominant follicle in the ovary become a corpus luteum ; this body has a primary more

Intelligent design

Intelligent design Intelligent design is the assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause , not an undirected process such as natural selection .". It is a modern form of the traditional teleological argument for the existen more

Enzyme

Enzyme of the enzyme TIM , surrounded by the space-filling model of the protein. TIM is an extremely efficient enzyme involved in the process that converts sugar s to energy in the body. Enzymes are protein s that catalyze (i.e. accelerate ) chemical reaction s. In enzymatic reactions, the molec more

Your browser is not current. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 does not support some functions on Chemie.DE