Scientific Jargon

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Tmax

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Time to peak plasma concentration

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Cmax

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Peak concentration of drug plasma level

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AUC

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Area under the curve in a plot of plasma concentration vs. time. In other words, the total amount of drug absorbed by the body.

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Tlag

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Absorbtion lag time

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Half-life

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time taken for 1/2 the quantity of a drug to be metabolized

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Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r)

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Measures the degree to which the relationship between two independent variables is described by a straight line

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Lamarkism

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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.

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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

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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

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Parthenogenesis

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A form of reproduction in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual, occurring commonly among insects and certain other arthropods

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IGF

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Insulin-like Growth Factor

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Bayes Theorom

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P(A|B) = [P(B|A)×P(A)]/P(B)

http://www.answers.com/topic/bayes-theorem

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Monotonic

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The dependent variable always increases or always decreases with increasing independent variable.