- Noun
- People, places, or things.
- Verb
- An action word.
- Adverb
- A verb modifier.
Prefixes
- Endo-
- Inside
- Ect-
- Outside
Other
- Imbibition
- A special type of diffusion that takes place when liquid is absorbed by solids-colloids causing an increase in volume.
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Imbibition can also control circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis thaliana and (probably) other plants.
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Dry seeds germinate in part by imbibition.
- Solids-Colloids
- A mixture in which one substance, consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles, is suspended throughout another substance.
- Osmoticum
- Balances water potential.
- A substance that acts to supplement osmotic pressure in a cell.
- Transgenic
- Transgenic refers to an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means.
- Transgenic organisms are generated in the laboratory for research purposes.