Biology

Biology

A natural science concerned with the study of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially in relation to their origin, growth, reproduction, structure, behaviour and evolution.

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tachy-

Biology; Toxicology

Prefix meaning rapid as in tachycardia and tachypnoea.

tolerable risk

Biology; Toxicology

Probability of suffering disease or injury that can, for the time being, be tolerated, taking into account the associated benefits, and assuming that the risk is minimized by ...

risk associated with a life time exposure

Biology; Toxicology

Probability of the occurrence of a specified undesirable event following exposure of an individual person from a given population to a specified substance at a defined level for ...

probit

Biology; Toxicology

Probability unit obtained by adding 5 to the normal deviates of a standardized normal distribution of results from a dose response study. Note 1: Addition of 5 removes the ...

simulation test

Biology; Toxicology

Procedure designed to predict the rate of biodegradation of a compound under relevant environmental conditions.

reverse transcription

Biology; Toxicology

Process by which an RNA molecule is used as a template to make a single-stranded DNA copy.

transcription

Biology; Toxicology

Process by which the genetic information encoded in a linear sequence of nucleotides in one strand of DNA is copied into an exactly complementary sequence of RNA.