BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES and ACTIONS

 

Abiotic synthesis

Abortion

Absorption

Action potentials

Active transport (vs passive)

Adaptation

Adaptive radiation

Alternation of generations

Analogy à convergent evolution

Apical dominance

Armament (animals)

Bioenergetics (exchange of energy with the environment)

Bulk flow

Calvin cycle

Carbon fixation

Carrying Capacity

Cleavage

Cloning

Coevolution

Commensalism

Communication

Competition

Consumers

Contraception

Contraction

Cooperation

Cotransport

Cycles

Development

Differentiation

Diffusion

Digestion

Distribution (population)

Dominance (recessive)

Dominance hierarchy

Electron transport system

Elimination

Epigenesis

Equilibrium

Evaporation

Evolution

Extinction

Excretion

Feedback (and its inhibition)

Feeding

Fermentation

Fertilization

Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)

Gas exchange

Gastrulation

Genetic drift

Germination

Glaciation

Glycolysis

Growth

Habituation

Hearing

Homeostasis

Immunity

Infection

Ingestion

Insight learning

Interactions (cell – cell, organ – organ, species – species, community, etc.)

Hydrolysis

K-selection

Krebs cycle

Learning

Locomotion

Macroevolution

Mating

Meiosis

Memory (in the immune system)

Metabolism

Metamorphosis

Migration

Mimicry

Mitosis

Molting

Morphogenesis

Mosaic evolution

Movement

Mutation

Mutualism

Natural selection

Neurotransmission

Nitrogen fixation

Nutrition

Operant conditioning

Organization

Organogenesis

Orgasm

Osmoregulation à osmosis

Oxidation / reduction

Oxidative phosphorylation

Parasitism

Pattern formation

Perception

Photoperiodism

Photoreception (seeing)

Photosynthesis

Plasmolysis

Population growth

Pollination

Predation

Proofreading DNA (enzymes)

Producers

Protein conformation

Punctuated equilibrium

r-selection

Recombination

Repair (cell)

Replication

Respiration

Rhythms (circadian)

Self-incompatibility

Sensation

Signal transduction (pathways)

Smelling

Speciation

Succession (ecological)

Summation

Symbiosis

Tasting

Thermodynamics

Thermoregulation

Transcription (the DNA-directed synthesis of RNA)

Transfusion (blood)

Translation (RNA-directed synthesis of a polypeptide)

Transpiration

Transport à active, co-, passive

Transposition

Tropism

Vegetative reproduction

Waste