Category: C

  • Core curriculum

    In education, required curriculum for all students. Curriculum design in which one subject or group of subjects becomes a focal unit around which all other subjects are correlated. Those courses taken by all students in a particular group.  

  • Coracoid

    As used in anatomy, like a raven’s beak in form or shape.  

  • Coracidium

    In biology, a ciliated free-living stage that emerges from some tapeworm eggs when they hatch.  

  • Copy choice

    In genetics, an explanation for crossing over which assumes that crossing over occurs during the process of chromosome duplication. First suggested by J. Belling in 1930. Duplication or copying proceeds partially alone one homologue and partially along another.  

  • Copulin

    A pheromone produced by dogs.  

  • Copolymers

    Mixtures of more than one polymer.  

  • Coping strategies

    The ways people devise to help prevent, avoid, or control emotional distress.  

  • Coping skills

    Techniques one uses for coping: coping mechanisms. Any characteristic or behavioral pattern that enhances a person’s adaptation. Coping skills include a stable value or religious belief system, problem solving, social skills, health-energy, and commitment to a social network.  

  • Coordinate repression

    In genetics, control of structural genes in an operon by a single operator gene. Simultaneous reduction of the enzyme levels of a metabolic pathway.  

  • Cooperative play

    Play that is organized for some specific purpose and that requires a division of labor. Players are easily distinguished from nonplayers in.