Scientific Jargon
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- Tmax
- Time to peak plasma concentration
- Cmax
- Peak concentration of drug plasma level
- AUC
- Area under the curve in a plot of plasma concentration vs. time. In other words, the total amount of drug absorbed by the body.
- Tlag
- Absorbtion lag time
- Half-life
- time taken for 1/2 the quantity of a drug to be metabolized
- Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r)
- Measures the degree to which the relationship between two independent variables is described by a straight line
- Lamarkism
- A theory of biological evolution holding that species evolve by the inheritance of traits acquired or modified through the use or disuse of body parts.
- 2 main sources of epigenetic variation
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1. Histones (the proteins that DNA are wrapped around)
2. Methylation of cytosine in DNA - Properties of epigenetic variation (where they occur, what affects them, transmission to offspring.)
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-epigenetic fingerprint can be different in different tissues (methylation of a particular cytosine in brain tissue, but not blood cells).
-Can be affected by environmental factors (diet, sun exposure, etc.)
-Evidence that some of these epigenetic properties are passed down to offspring - Parthenogenesis
- A form of reproduction in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual, occurring commonly among insects and certain other arthropods
- IGF
- Insulin-like Growth Factor
- Bayes Theorom
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P(A|B) = [P(B|A)×P(A)]/P(B)
http://www.answers.com/topic/bayes-theorem - Monotonic
- The dependent variable always increases or always decreases with increasing independent variable.