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Letter | Term | Description | Category |
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D | Density (Tight) | The amount of mass in a particular volume. |
Physics |
D | Dendrites | Short nerve fibers that project from a neuron, generally receiving messages from the axons of other neurons and relaying them to the cell’s nucleus. |
Neuroscience |
D | DNA Ligation | The joining of two DNA molecules by the enzyme, DNA ligase. |
Molecular Biology |
D | DNA Ligase | The enzyme used to join two DNA molecules together. |
Molecular Biology |
D | Data (b) | In maths, data is a set of numerical values for variables. In science, data refers to facts that can be collected and analysed, then becoming information and eventually knowledge. In computer science, data is a sequence of one or more symbols that can be interpreted and given meaning. |
Mathematics |
D | Diarrhoea (Fingerspelling) | When bowel movements are looser and/or more frequent. |
Biology |
D | Direct Current | The voltage is always constant, and the electricity flows in a certain direction. |
Physics |
D | Dementia | General mental deterioration from a previously normal state of cognitive function due to disease or psychological factors. Alzheimer’s disease is one form of dementia. |
Neuroscience |
D | DNA Fragments | Pieces of separated, cut, or broken DNA. In the lab, DNA fragments are made using restriction enzymes. |
Molecular Biology |
D | DNA Ladder | Used to measure the sizes of DNA fragments that have been separated out in a gel. It is a mix of DNA fragments (of known sizes) that is run alongside your samples in a gel so that you can compare them. |
Molecular Biology |