| reaction formation |
A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which a person adopts affects, ideas, and behaviours that are the opposites of impulses harboured either consciously or unconsciously. For example, excessive moral zeal may be a reaction to strong but repressed asocial impulses.
Ãâó: www.indianpsychiatry.com/Glossary.htm
|
|---|---|
| reaction center |
Clusters of chlorophyll and proteins that receive photon energy in photosynthesis. 153
Ãâó: www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/life/glossaryr.mhtml
|
| reading frame |
The DNA nucleotide corresponding to the first codon position in mRNA. 332
Ãâó: www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/life/glossaryr.mhtml
|
| reactant |
re-AK-tant A starting material in a chemical reaction. 35
Ãâó: www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/life/glossaryr.mhtml
|
| reading frame |
A sequence of sense codons such that each suceeding triplet generates the correct order of amino acids resulting in a polypeptide chain.
Ãâó: depts.washington.edu/~genetics/courses/genet372/w2...
|