Subject Specific Language: Biology

Key word / term DefinitionAbundance

Active site

Active transport

Adaptations

ADH (anti-diuretic hormone)

Adrenaline

Adult stem cells

Aerobic respiration

Agar gel

Algae

Alleles

Alveoli

Amino acids

Amylase

Anaerobic respiration

Aorta

Aphids

Archaea

Arteries

Asexual reproduction

Atria

Auxin

Key word / term DefinitionBacteria

Bases (DNA)

Benign tumours

Bile

Biodiversity

Binary fission

Biomass

Cancer

Capillaries

Carbohydrases

Carbohydrates

Carbon cycle

Carcinogens

Carriers

Catalyst

Causal mechanism

Cell cycle

Cell membrane

Cell wall

Cell wall

Cellulose

Central nervous system (CNS)Cerebral cortex

Cerebellum

Key word / term DefinitionChlorophyll

Chloroplasts

Chlorosis

Ciliary muscles

Clinical trials

Classification

Cloning

Communicable disease

Community

Competition

Contraception

Coordination centres

Coronary arteries

Correlation

Culture medium

Cystic fibrosis

Cytoplasm

Decomposers

Denatured

Dialysis

Differentiate

Diffusion

Digestive system

Distribution

Key word / term DefinitionDomain

Dominant allele

Double circulatory system

Effectors

Embryonic stem cells

Endocrine system

Endothermic reaction

Enzymes

Epidermal

Eukaryotic cells

Evolutionary trees

Exothermic reaction

Extinction

Extremophile

Fatty acids

FSH (follicle stimulating hormone)Genetic engineering

Genotype

Gibberellins

Glucagon

Glucose

Glycerol

Glycogen

Gravitropism

Key word / term DefinitionGuard cells

Haemoglobin

Heterozygote

Homeostasis

Homozygote

Hormones

Hybridomas

Hyperopia

Hypertonic

Hypotonic

Incident energy

Inoculate

Insulin

Interdependence

Ionising radiation

Isotonic

Lactic acid

Limiting factors

Lipase

Lipids

Malignant tumours

Mean average

Median average

Medulla

Key word / term DefinitionMeiosis

Metabolism

Mitochondria

Mitosis

Mode average

Motor neurones

Mutation

Myopia

Natural selection

Nerve

Neurones

Non-communicable diseasesNucleotide

Nucleus

Oestrogen

Organ

Organ system

Osmosis

Ovaries

Ovulation

Oxygen debt

Palisade mesophyll

Partially permeable membranePathogens

Key word / term DefinitionPenicillium

Permanent vacuole

Phenotype

Phloem

Photosynthesis

Phototropism

Pituitary gland

Placebo

Plasma

Plasmolysis

Platelets (thrombocytes)

Polydactyly

Pulmonary artery

Pulmonary vein

Punnett square diagram

Preclinical testing

Primary consumer

Producers

Prokaryotic cells

Proteases

Proteins

Quadrat

Quantitative sampling

Range

Key word / term DefinitionRecessive

Receptors

Red blood cells (erythrocytes)Reflex arcs

Reflexes

Resolving power

Ribosomes

Sample size

Secondary consumer

Selective breeding

Selective reabsorption

Sensory neurone

Sex chromosomes

Sexual reproduction

STD / STI (Sexually transmitted disease / infection)Simple sugars

Speciation

Species

Sperm

Spongy mesophyll

Statins

Stem cells

Stent

Stimuli

Key word / term DefinitionStomata

Suspensory ligaments

Testosterone

Therapeutic cloning

Thermoregulatory centre

Tissue

Tissue culture

Transect

Translocation

Transpiration

Trophic level

Tropism

Tumour

Turgor

Type 1 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes

Urea

Vaccine

Vasoconstriction

Vasodilation

Veins

Vena cava

Ventilation

Ventricles

Key word / term DefinitionVirus

White blood cells

Xylem

Zygote