BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES and ACTIONS
Abiotic synthesis
Abortion
Absorption
Action potentials
Active transport (vs passive)
Adaptation
Adaptive radiation
Alternation of generations
Analogy
à convergent evolutionApical 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 osmosisOxidation / 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-, passiveTransposition
Tropism
Vegetative reproduction
Waste