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Biology Dictionary: D

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  • D enzyme
  • D-glucose
  • Dactylospasm
  • Dactylus
  • Dam
  • Danger
  • Dangerous behaviour
  • Dansyl chloride
  • Dark reaction
  • Dark respiration
  • Dart
  • Darwin Charles
  • Darwinian fitness
  • Darwinism
  • Data
  • Data collection
  • Data Point
  • Date
  • Dawbarns sign
  • De novo
  • De novo pathway
  • De-efferentation
  • Deactivation
  • Dead
  • Dead-end host
  • Dealkylation
  • Deamination
  • Death phase
  • Death rate
  • Debris
  • Decatenation
  • Decay
  • Decerebrate rigidity
  • Deciduous forest
  • Decoction
  • Decomposer
  • Decomposition
  • Decomposition of movement
  • Decree
  • Decremental conduction
  • Dedifferentiation
  • Defaecation
  • Defecation
  • Defective bacteriophage
  • Defense reflex
  • Deficiency mutant
  • Definitions
  • Definitive host
  • Defoliation
  • Deformation
  • Deformity
  • Degenerate
  • Degenerative disease
  • Deglutition
  • Deglutology
  • Degradation
  • Degrade
  • Degrees of freedom
  • Dehiscence
  • Dehydration
  • Dehydration reaction
  • Dehydrogenase
  • Dehydrogenation
  • Delamination
  • Deletion mutation
  • Delimitation
  • Delivery system
  • Deltaproteobacteria
  • Delusion of passivity
  • Demecolcine
  • Demographic transition
  • Denaturation
  • Dendrite
  • Dendrology
  • Denitrification
  • Dens
  • Dens serotinus
  • Dense bodies
  • Dense connective tissue
  • Dense irregular connective tissue
  • Dense regular connective tissue
  • Density
  • Density dependence
  • Density dependent factor
  • Density dependent inhibition of growth
  • Density dependent limiting factor
  • Density Independent Factor
  • Deoxyadenosine diphosphate
  • Deoxyadenosine monophosphate
  • Deoxyadenosine triphosphate
  • Deoxycytidine monophosphate
  • Deoxycytidine triphosphate
  • Deoxyguanosine diphosphate
  • Deoxyguanosine monophosphate
  • Deoxyguanosine triphosphate
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid
  • Deoxyribonucleotide
  • Deoxyribose
  • Deoxythymidine
  • Dependency
  • Dependent drainage
  • Dependent variable
  • Depletion
  • Depolarization
  • Depolymerization
  • Deposits
  • Depressant
  • Depressor reflex
  • Depth of field
  • Derivative
  • Derivative chromosome
  • Derma
  • Dermagraphy
  • Dermal tissues
  • Dermatoma
  • Dermis
  • Descend
  • Descensus uteri
  • Describe
  • Descriptive
  • Descriptive anatomy
  • Desiccation
  • Desmosome
  • Desolvation
  • Desorption
  • Detection
  • Detector
  • Determinate
  • Determinate cleavage
  • Determination
  • Deterministic model
  • Detritivore
  • Development
  • Developmental anatomy
  • Devolution
  • Dew
  • Dexter
  • Dexterity
  • Dextran
  • Dextrin
  • Dextrorotatory
  • Dextrose
  • Dhobie itch
  • Diabetes
  • Diachronic study
  • Diacylglycerol
  • Diagnosis
  • Diagram
  • Diakinesis
  • Dialysis
  • Diameter obliqua
  • Diaphoresis
  • Diarrhea
  • Diarthrodial joint
  • Diaster
  • Diatom
  • Diatomaceous earth
  • Diazotroph
  • Dibasic amino acid
  • Dichorionic-diamniotic twins
  • Dichotomous
  • Dichotomous key
  • Dicot
  • Dicotyledon
  • Dicrotic notch
  • Dicrotic pulse
  • Dictyate
  • Dictyosome
  • Diels hydrocarbon
  • Diet
  • Diethylaminoethyl-cellulose
  • Difference
  • Differential centrifugation
  • Differential medium
  • Differential screening
  • Differential stain
  • Differentiation
  • Diffusible
  • Diffusion
  • Diffusion equilibrium
  • Diffusion shell
  • Digastric muscle
  • Digastric notch
  • Digenetic
  • Digenous
  • Digestant
  • Digestion
  • Digestive enzymes
  • Digestive system
  • Digit
  • Digitus annularis
  • Digitus minimus
  • Diglyceride
  • Dihaploid
  • Dilate
  • Diluent
  • Dilute
  • Dimension
  • Dimer
  • Dimerization
  • Diminution
  • Dimorphism
  • Dimorphous
  • Dinoflagellate
  • Dinucleotide
  • Dipeptide
  • Diphyllobothrium latum
  • Diploblastic
  • Diploid
  • Diploidy
  • Diplotene
  • Dipygus
  • Direct agglutination
  • Direct life cycle
  • Direct percussion
  • Directional Selection
  • Disaccharide
  • Discoblastula
  • Discoidal cleavage
  • Discordant
  • Discrete character
  • Discrete random variable
  • Discrimination
  • Discus intervertebralis
  • Disease
  • Diseases
  • Disinfectant
  • Disinfestation
  • Disinhibition
  • Disintegration
  • Disjunction
  • Disk
  • Disorder
  • Disorganization
  • Dispensing tablet
  • Dispersal
  • Dispersal habitat
  • Dispersion
  • Disruptive Selection
  • Disseminator
  • Dissimilation
  • Dissociation
  • Dissociation constant
  • Dissolution
  • Dissolved oxygen
  • Distal
  • Distal end cutter
  • Distend
  • Distensibility
  • Distinguish
  • Distribution
  • Districhiasis
  • Disturbance
  • Disulfide bond
  • Dithecous
  • Diuresis
  • Diurnal rhythm
  • Diurnality
  • Divalent
  • Divergence
  • Divergent evolution
  • Diversity
  • Diverticulum
  • Divided dose
  • Division
  • Dizygotic twins
  • Dna gyrase
  • Dna ligase
  • DNA polymerase
  • DNA polymerase I
  • DNA polymerase II
  • Dna rearrangement
  • Dna repair
  • DNA replication
  • Dna sequence analysis
  • DNA virus
  • Doctrine
  • Doderleins bacillus
  • Doerfler-stewart test
  • Dog
  • Dogma
  • Dohle body
  • Domain
  • Domatia
  • Domestic cat
  • Dominance
  • Dominant
  • Dominant character
  • Dominant gene
  • Dominant species
  • Dominant trait
  • Donor
  • Dopamine
  • Dormancy
  • Dormant
  • Dorsal
  • Dorsal muscles
  • Dorsal root ganglion
  • Dorsal spine
  • Dorsum of tongue
  • Dosage effect
  • Dosage schedule
  • Dose
  • Double bond
  • Double circulation
  • Double stranded DNA virus
  • Double-voided specimen
  • Doublet
  • Doubly heterozygous
  • Dove
  • Down
  • Down promoter mutation
  • Down-regulation
  • Downstream
  • Dpt
  • Dragon fruit
  • Drawtube
  • Drepanocyte
  • Drone
  • Dropper
  • Drug
  • Dry leprosy
  • Dry mass
  • Duct
  • Dumdum fever
  • Duocrinin
  • Duplication
  • Duplication mutation
  • Dwarf
  • Dye
  • Dynamic equilibrium
  • Dynamic range
  • Dynamics
  • Dysbolism
  • Dysentery
  • Dysfunction
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