Letter S - Biology dictionary by Futura-Sciences

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Saccharomyces cerevisiae (or brewer's yeast, baker's yeast) ...	Saccharose Sucrose (the common English term) A disaccharide is formed ...
Salt gland The salt glands are osmoregulatory organs in Elasmobranchii ...	Scanning electron microscope The scanning electron microscope is an electron microscope ...
Sclerotome The sclerotome is an embryonic unit responsible for ...	Selenocysteine Selenocysteine (Sec or U) is a rare amino acid which is ...
Seminal receptacle The seminal receptacle is the storage organ for male gametes ...	Senescence Senescence is the process of biological ageing which occurs ...
Serine Serine (Ser or S) is an amino acid found in proteins. ...	Sessile The term sessile has two meanings: Firstly, an organ (leaf, ...
Sexual selection Sexual selection is a mechanism ofevolution. Selection ...	Shiga toxin The shiga-toxins (STX1 and STX2) are specific toxins coded ...
Skeletal muscle The skeletal muscles are one of the two forms of striated ...	Skin The skin is a specific multi-functional organ. Function of ...
Smooth muscle Smooth muscle are made up of single cell nuclei and contract ...	Soma The soma are all of the non-sexual cells of a living organisms.
Somatic cell Excluding germ cells and embryo cells, a somatic cell is a ...	Somite The somites are derived from the mesoderm and are embryonic ...
Speciation Speciation is the evolutionary process leading to the ...	Spermogenesis Spermogenesis is the last phase of spermatogenesis during ...