About Chloroplast

About Chloroplast

About Chloroplast Definition Chloroplast is an organelle unique to plant cells that contains chlorophyll, which is what makes plants green and is responsible for enabling…
About Microtubule

About Microtubule

About Microtubule Definition Microtubules are cytoplasmic tubules that serve as the structural component of cytoskeleton, cilia, and eukaryotic flagella. They are found throughout the cytoplasm…
About Organelle

About Organelle

About Organelle Definition Living things are made of cells, or biological units also referred to as the building blocks of life. Some organisms consist of…
About Apicomplexa

About Apicomplexa

About Apicomplexa Defintion Apicomplexa is a phylum comprised of organisms (also called apicomplexans) such as coccidian, gregarines, piroplasm, haemogregarines, and plasmodia. All apicomplexans are parasitic…
Classification of Amoeba

Classification of Amoeba

Classification of Amoeba Introduction An amoeba (pronounced a-meeba) is a classification of protist that are amorphous in shape, meaning their body has no fixed structures.…
About Amoeba

About Amoeba

About Amoeba Definition Amoeba is a large genus of naked rhizopod protozoans that have lobed and never anastomosing pseudopodia and are widely distributed in fresh…
Flagellate (Protozoan)

Flagellate (Protozoan)

Flagellate (Protozoan) Definition Flagellate is a protozoan that moves by means of a flagellum or flagella. Some flagellates, such as the euglena, can make food…
About Protozoa

About Protozoa

About Protozoa Definition Protozoa are non-phototrophic, unicellular, eukaryotic microorganisms with no cell walls. All protozoa are eukaryotes and therefore possess a “true,” or membrane-bound, nucleus.…
Mitochondrion

Mitochondrion

Mitochondrion Definition Mitochondrion is regarded as the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells. That is because it is the organelle that supplies energy by generating adenosine triphosphate…
Eukaryote

Eukaryote

Eukaryote Definition Eukaryote is any member of the Eukarya, a domain of organisms having cells each with a distinct nucleus within which the genetic material…
Endoplasmic Reticulum

Endoplasmic Reticulum

Endoplasmic Reticulum Definition Endoplasmic Reticulum (or ER) is an interconnected network of membranes, which is used to make proteins, steroids, and lipids located near the…
HSA: Human Serum Albumin

HSA: Human Serum Albumin

HSA: Human Serum Albumin Definition Human Serum Albumin (or HSA) is the most abundant protein in plasma, which is a monomeric multi-domain macromolecule, representing the…
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