| alternation of generations |
This term is applied to a peculiar mode of reproduction which prevails among many of the lower animals, in which the egg produces a living form quite different from its parent, but from which the parent-form is reproduced by a process of budding, or by the division of the substance of the first product of the egg.
Ãâó: www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/sci/lifescie...
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| alternative splicing |
The processing of an RNA transcript into different mRNA molecules by including some exons and excluding others.
Ãâó: www.bscs.org/onco/glossary.htm
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| alternator |
Device on a vehicle that when turned produces electricity
Ãâó: www.autobodyexpert.com/cons_info/glossary/gen_auto...
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| alter |
To physically transform from one mineral into another. Process is alteration
Ãâó: www.inlandlapidary.com/user_area/glossaryA.asp
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| alternate host |
Host in the life cycle of a rust fungus on which the pycnial and aecial stages are formed.
Ãâó: www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/idotis/glossary.html
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