Cell biology

Cell biology

The study of cell structure, physiological properties, interactions with the environment and life cycle.

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Sensory cortex

Biology; Cell biology

A region of the brain associated with the parietal lobe.

Sensory input

Biology; Cell biology

Stimuli that the nervous system receives from the external or internal environment; includes pressure, taste, sound, light, and blood pH.

Neurons that carry signals from receptors and transmit information about the environment to processing centres in the brain and spinal cord. Neurons carrying messages from sensory receptors to the ...

Sepals

Biology; Cell biology

Modified leaves that protect a flower's inner petals and reproductive structures. Small, leaf-like structures in flowers that enclose and protect the developing flower. These are often green, but in ...

Seminal vesicles

Biology; Cell biology

Glands that contribute fructose to sperm. The fructose serves as an energy source. The structures that add fructose and hormones to semen.

Skin

Biology; Cell biology

One of eleven major body organ systems in animals; the outermost layer protecting multicellular animals from the loss or exchange of internal þuids and from invasion by foreign microorganisms; ...

Sinoatrial (SA) node

Biology; Cell biology

A region of modiÞed muscle cells in the right atrium that sends timed impulses to the heart's other muscle cells, causing them to contract; the heart's pacemaker.