Life Cycle, Processes & Properties, WOU-ZYG
None of us are born looking exactly the way that we do today; this is because humans, like other species, undergo a series of changes as they mature and age, in accordance with their biological life cycle. This process can look very different across different species. In many simple organisms and in higher animals, the life cycle is completed within a single generation, while in most plants, the life cycle is multigenerational.
Life Cycle, Processes & Properties Encyclopedia Articles By Title
wound, a break in the continuity of any bodily tissue due to violence, where violence is understood to encompass......
xanthinuria, rare inherited disorder of purine metabolism that results from a deficiency in the enzyme xanthine......
xenophobia, fear and contempt of strangers or foreigners or of anything designated as foreign, or a conviction......
xeroderma pigmentosum, rare, recessively inherited skin condition in which resistance to sunlight and other radiation......
XYY-trisomy, relatively common human sex chromosome anomaly in which a male has two Y chromosomes rather than one.......
Ryuzo Yanagimachi was a Japanese-born American scientist whose team cloned the second live mammal, a mouse, and......
yaws, contagious disease occurring in moist tropical regions throughout the world. It is caused by a spirochete,......
yellow fever, acute infectious disease, one of the great epidemic diseases of the tropical world, though it sometimes......
yersiniosis, acute gastrointestinal infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica and characterized......
yolk, the nutritive material of an egg, used as food by a developing, embryonic animal. Eggs with relatively little,......
Zellweger syndrome, congenital disorder characterized by complete absence or reduction in the number of peroxisomes......
Zika fever, infectious mosquito-borne illness, typically mild in humans but capable in utero of causing brain anomalies......
zoonotic disease, any of a group of diseases that can be transmitted to humans by nonhuman vertebrate animals,......
zoophilia, sexual attraction of a human toward a nonhuman animal, which may involve the experience of sexual fantasies......
zygote, fertilized egg cell that results from the union of a female gamete (egg, or ovum) with a male gamete (sperm).......