Life dictionary by Futura-Sciences

Alphabetical index

Age pyramid In demography, the age pyramid is a graphical representation ...	Alkaloid An alkaloid is a natural organic molecule containing nitrogen.
CHN The CHN (Comité d'Homologation National) is the National ...	Epidemic An epidemic (from the Greek epi = above and demos = people) ...
Grading Grading is the defining of the degree of malignancy of a ...	H5N1 H5N1 is the most worrying of the 16 sub-types of avian ...
Hermetic sealing Hermetic sealing means a closure which does not allow air to pass.	Homo sapiens Homo sapiens is the present-day species of human beings ...
IUCN The International Union for Nature Conservation (IUNC) ...	Long distance Birds, that are mainly insect eaters which travel distances ...
Lymph Lymph is a whitish-coloured biological fluid which ...	Mangrove swamp A mangrove swamp is a form of maritime swamp seen in ...
Maritime swamp A maritime swamp is a flat area formed by mobile sediments, ...	Menopause Menopause can be defined as the cessation of the ovarian ...
MNHN The French National Natural History Museum is a French ...	Morphology Morphology is the law of shape and structure, independent of function.
Natura 2000 Natura 2000 is an organised European ecological network ...	Nitrogen cycle The nitrogen cycle is the succession of biochemical ...
Nuisance A nuisance is any permanent, continuous or discontinuous ...	ONCFS The French National Office for Hunting and Wild Animals