9.21.2011

Biology Terminology.


  • vertebral column = back bone = spine
  • wood = secondary xylem
  • adrenal gland = supra renal gland
  • adrenaline = epinephrine
  • afferent nerve = sensory nerve
  • air bladder = swim bladder
  • alimentary canal = gut = digestive tract
  • allelomorphic = pair of alleles
  • amylase =diastase
  • atrium = auricle
  • atrophy = degeneration
  • bisexual = hermaphrodite = monoecious
  • breathing = external respiration
  • caudal = tail
  • cell division = cytokinesis
  • cellular respiration = internal respiration
  • chemo synthetic = chemo autotrophic
  • chrysalis = pupa
  • cleavage = division
  • cork = phellogen
  • endocrine gland = ductless gland
  • circulatory system = vascular system
  • erythrocyte = red blood corpuscle = RBC
  • fructose = laevulose
  • gamete = germ cell = sex cell
  • haploid = monoploid
  • glucose = dextrose
  • glycogen = animal starch
  • golgi body = golgi apparatus = dictyosome
  • unicellular = acellular
  • gonad = sex organ
  • holophytic = photosynthetic
  • imago = adult
  • inner ear = membranous labyrinth
  • integument = skin
  • intestinal juice = succus entericus
  • invertase = sucrase
  • involuntary muscle = smooth muscle = unstriated muscle = unstripped muscle
  • kreb's cycle = citric acid cycle
  • lamella = layer
  • leucocyte = white blood corpuscle = WBC
  • mastication = chewing
  • meiosis = reduction division
  • metameric segmentation = metamerism
  • nephron = uniferous tubule = kidney tubule
  • ovum = egg cell
  • uterus = womb
  • pith = medulla
  • plasma lemma = plasma membrane = cell membrane
  • ptyalin = salivary amylase
  • semi permeable = selectively permeable = deferentially permeable
  • smell = olfaction
  • symbiotc = mutualism
  • taste = gustation
  • tonoplast = vacuole membrane 
  • unisexual = dioecious
  • vegetative reproduction = propagation
  • voluntary muscle = skeletal muscle = striated muscle - striped muscle
  • sarcodina = rhizopoda
  • cilliata = cilliophora

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