A salad green with wide uses. Known to cool foods, high in vitamin A and C and high in Calcium....

Transfer of energy from one body to another, not in contact with it, but by means of wave motion through...

A measure of energy absorbed, equivalent to 100 ergs of energy absorbed per gram of material receiving ionizing radiation. The...

The practice of siphoning wine from one container to another.  

A pentose (five-carbon) sugar which occurs as an intermediate in the metabolism of glucose; especially important in the nucleic acids...

The pigment in the rod cells of the retina of the eye, also known as visual purple, consisting of the...

A methylated pentose (five-carbon) sugar.  

Compounds chemically related to vitamin A, that bind to the retinoid X receptor but not the retinoic acid receptor.  

Viral enzyme that catalyses the conversion of mRNA into cDNA. Also known as RNA-directed DNA polymerases. A class of enzymes...

A plasma protein which specifically binds retinol (the alcohol form of vitamin A) and prevents it from being excreted. In...