enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Test (biology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_(biology)

    In biology, a test is the hard shell of some spherical marine animals and protists, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans, radiolarians, and testate amoebae. The term is also applied to the covering of scale insects. The related Latin term testa is used for the hard seed coat of plant seeds.

  3. Biological tests of necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_tests_of...

    Tests of sufficiency in biology are used to determine if the presence of an element permits the biological phenomenon to occur. In other words, if sufficient conditions are met, the targeted event is able to take place. However, this does not mean that the absence of a sufficient biological element inhibits the biological event from occurring.

  4. Molecular diagnostics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_diagnostics

    For example, the ColoGuard test may be used to screen people over 55 years old for colorectal cancer. [57] Cancer is a longtime-scale disease with various progression steps, molecular diagnostics tools can be used for prognosis of cancer progression. For example, the OncoType Dx test by Genomic Health can estimate risk of breast cancer.

  5. McDonald–Kreitman test - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald–Kreitman_test

    The McDonald–Kreitman test [1] is a statistical test often used by evolutionary and population biologists to detect and measure the amount of adaptive evolution within a species by determining whether adaptive evolution has occurred, and the proportion of substitutions that resulted from positive selection (also known as directional selection).

  6. List of biological databases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biological_databases

    OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man): inherited diseases; RefSeq; 1000 Genomes Project: launched in January 2008. The genomes of more than a thousand anonymous participants from a number of different ethnic groups were analyzed and made publicly available.

  7. LibreTexts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreTexts

    LibreTexts' current primary support is from the 2018 Open Textbook Pilot Program award from the Department of Education Organization Act. [7] [10] [5] [11] FIPSE [12] Other funding comes from the University of California Davis, the University of California Davis Library, [5] and the California State University System both through MERLOT and its Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) program.

  8. IISER Aptitude Test - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IISER_Aptitude_Test

    IAT is conducted as a computer based test in the centers across India. IAT consists of 60 questions: 15 questions each from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. Total time for answering the test is 3 hours. Questions are of multiple choice type with only one correct answer. Each correct answer is awarded 4 marks.

  9. ATP test - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_test

    1st-generation ATP tests are derived from hygiene monitoring uses where samples are relatively free of interferences. 2nd-generation tests are specifically designed for water, wastewater and industrial applications where, for the most part, samples contain a variety of components that can interfere with the ATP assay.