Questions tagged [terminology]
How terms are used or the meaning of words as used in scientific literature. Questions should ideally include a link or quote as context for where the term was encountered.
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Is Protista a kingdom just for unicellular eukaryotes that couldn't be classified under any other kingdom? [duplicate]
Is Kingdom Protista merely a "catch-all" classification for unicellular eukaryotes that do not belong to the kingdoms of Animalia, Plantae, or Fungi? Or does it possess specific criteria ...
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What's the term for energy that is/isn't usable by an organism?
Every healthy organism stores some of its biochemical energy in reserves (e.g. adipose tissue, glycogen), but much of an organism's biochemical energy is bound in ways that aren't normally accessible ...
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If the shrimp is a decapod, why does it have 20 legs? (10 swimming + 10 walking legs)
Decapods like crabs have exactly 10 legs.
However, shrimps have 5 pairs of swimming legs and 5 pairs of walking legs. A total of 10 pairs. Why are they classified as decapods then?
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Pilot agricultural study terminology
What is the technical word for a single crop field trial which divided into different treatments? I have examined Field trial manual Principles, planning and Implementation of Agricultural Field ...
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What is the word for a small (under 50 bp) structural variant?
What is the word for a small (under 50 bp) SV? Perhaps it is MNV (multi-nucleotide variant)? Something like microindel? I do not like SNV as "single nucleotide" is not really correct and I ...
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What is the difference between "microproteome" and "peptidome"?
I know that "peptide" is sometimes used to refer to both microproteins and short peptides derived from longer proteins (post-translational), but I do not know whether this extends to "...
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Reading genotype aloud
For this genotype, P2ry12$^{+/+}$ I read it "P2ry12 wild type." For animals with the GFP being expressed under one Cx3cr1 promoter, Cx3cr1$^{+/GFP}$, how do I read that aloud?
What about for:...
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There are plants and animal genera with the same Latin name. What are the scopes of uniqueness?
The genus Leptochilus occurs as a genus of wasps, and of a genus of ferns.
What are the parts of the phylogenetic tree where uniqueness is required, and how many of them are they?
(Where can I read ...
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Why is tautonymy forbidden in botany?
From Merriam Webster:
tautonym: a taxonomic binomial in which the generic name and specific epithet are alike and which is common in zoology especially to designate a typical form but is forbidden to ...
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What is the exact definition of the term 'trait'?
A trait is a characteristic shown by an organism.
For example a Tt plant would show the 'tallness' trait.
It seems to me that, by analogy, sickle cell anaemia (SCA) carriers should show the 'normal' ...
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Is the "endo-" prefix in "endotherm" inconsistent/opposite to its use in "endothermic reaction"?
It seems to me that the "endo-" in the biology term "endotherm" is opposite to the "endo-" in the chemistry term "endothermic reaction." Is that the case?
As I ...
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Is this scenario allopatric or sympatric speciation?
I stumbled over a speciation scenario but I am not able to say to which type it belongs. I guess for people more familiar with the theory it might be easy to tell.
I was reading about the fin whale (...
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Are organisms that are genetically modified with a deletion classified as "transgenic"?
Imagine you delete a genomic region in a zygote with a CRISPR plasmid to generate an F1 animal with a genomic deletion.
The animal should be considered transgenic because of the presence of the ...
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What is the exact definition of a "gene"?
(In this question, I'm only considering the molecular-biology notion of a gene, not the older Mendelian notion.)
Wikipedia defines a "gene" as "a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is ...
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What is regional homogeneity in neurology?
newbie to.neurology here. For context, I'm studying this article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89166-8#Sec14) which relates the gut microbiome to brain structure in schizophrenia ...
