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Toxicology
A branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals or physical agents on living organisms, as well as the symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.
Contributors in Toxicology
Toxicology
benchmark response
Biology; Toxicology
Response, expressed as an excess of background, at which a benchmark dose or benchmark concentration is set.
attenuation in genetics
Biology; Toxicology
Regulation of gene expression in bacteria by premature termination of transcription of a biosynthetic operon.
biopesticide
Biology; Toxicology
Biological agent with pesticidal activity, e.g., the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis when used to kill insects.
allometry in biology
Biology; Toxicology
Measurement of the rate of growth of a part or parts of an organism relative to the growth of the whole organism.
cyanogenic
Biology; Toxicology
Compounds able to produce cyanide. Examples: Cyanogenic glycosides such as amygdalin in peach and apricot stones.
acceptable residue level of an antibiotic
Biology; Toxicology
Acceptable concentration of a residue which has been established for an antibiotic found in human or animal foods.
back-mutation
Biology; Toxicology
Process which reverses the effect of a mutation which had inactivated a gene; thus it restores the wild phenotype.
