molecules
81base analogs — Molecules that resemble normal DNA nucleotides and can substitute for them during DNA replication, leading to mutations …
82intercalating agents — Molecules that can be inserted between the stacked bases of a DNA double helix, thereby distorting the DNA and inducing insertion and deletion mutations …
83neurotrophins — Molecules with closely related structures that are known to support the survival of different classes of embryonic neurons. See nerve growth factor (NGF), brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF),neurotrophin 3 (NT 3), GDGF and ciliary… …
84sterols — Molecules that have a 17 carbon steroid structure, but with additional alcohol groups and side chains. Commonest example is cholesterol …
85Fatty acids — Molecules that are long chains of lipid carboxylic acid found in fats and oils and in cell membranes as a component of phospholipids and glycolipids. (Carboxylic acid is an organic acid containing the functional group COOH.) Fatty acids come from …
86MESF — molecules of equivalent soluble fluorochrome …
87MESF — • molecules of equivalent soluble fluorochrome …
88phytochemical — Molecules characteristically found in plants …
89cell — cell1 cell like, adj. /sel/, n. 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison. 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. 3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the… …
90gas — gasless, adj. /gas/, n., pl. gases, v., gassed, gassing. n. 1. Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid. 2. any such fluid or mixture of fluids. 3. any… …
