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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
Anthracosis
Biology; Toxicology
Form of pneumoconiosis caused by accumulation of anthracite carbon deposits in the lungs due to inhalation of smoke or coal dust.
Artefact
Biology; Toxicology
Observation, effect, or result which is inaccurate because it is produced by the methodology used in scientific investigation or by experimental error
Competent bacteria
Biology; Toxicology
Culture of bacteria (or yeast) treated in such a way that their ability to take up DNA molecules without transduction or conjugation has been enhanced.
Cell cycle
Biology; Toxicology
Regulated biochemical steps that cells go through involving DNA replication and cell division, usually depicted as a sequential cyclical series of events.
Bio-assay
Biology; Toxicology
Procedure for estimating the concentration or biological activity of a substance by measuring its effect on a living system compared to a standard system.
Clone
Biology; Toxicology
1. Population of genetically identical cells or organisms having a common ancestor. 2. Recombinant DNA molecules all carrying the same inserted sequence.
Antagonist in toxicology
Biology; Toxicology
Substance which binds to a cell receptor normally responding to a naturally occurring substance and which prevents a response to the natural substance.
