Henderson's dictionary of biological terms

The book provides concise, authoritative and up-to-the-minute biological definitions, spanning the major areas of modern biology. It incorporates the latest terms, such as biodiversity, biolistics, chromosome painting, environmental impact assessment and gene knock-out, covers acronyms like AZT and...

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Published: London Longman 1995
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Summary:The book provides concise, authoritative and up-to-the-minute biological definitions, spanning the major areas of modern biology. It incorporates the latest terms, such as biodiversity, biolistics, chromosome painting, environmental impact assessment and gene knock-out, covers acronyms like AZT and PCR, including Latin and Greek derivations, units, structural formulae of important compounds and useful illustrations. It also presents outline classification tables of animals, plants, fungi, prokaryotes and viruses