2 Terms
Contributors in General biology
General biology
precambrian
Biology; General biology
Informal term describing 7/8 of geologic time from the beginning of the earth to the beginning of the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era. During this time the atmosphere and oceans formed, life ...
protista
Biology; General biology
The taxonomic Kingdom from which the other three eukaryotic kingdoms (Fungi, Animalia and Plantae) are thought to have evolved. The earliest eukaryotes were single-celled organisms that would today ...
symbiotic relationship
Biology; General biology
Symbiotic relationships include those associations in which one organism lives on another (ectosymbiosis, such as mistletoe), or where one partner lives inside the other (endosymbiosis, such as ...
vector
Biology; General biology
an organism that does not cause disease itself but which transmits infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another.
phase
Biology; General biology
a characteristic form, appearance, or stage of development that occurs in a cycle or that distinguishes some individuals of a group
life cycle
Biology; General biology
the course of developmental changes through which an organism passes from its inception as a fertilized zygote to the mature state in which another zygote may be produced
