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Niche
The ecological role of a species; the set of resources it consumes and habitats it occupies.

Nilsson, Dan-Erik
professor Nilsson heads the Functional Morphology Division of the Department of Zoology at Lund University in Sweden. His main research interest is the optics and evolution of invertebrate eyes.

Nitrogen fixation
A chemical process by which nitrogen in the atmosphere is assimilate into organic compounds. Only certain bacteria are able to fix atmospheric nitrogen, which then becomes available to other organisms through the food chains.

Nilsson, Lennart
A Swedish photographer who began as a photojournalist, Nilsson soon began exploring new techniques such as the use of endoscopes and electron microscopes to photograph the inner mysteries of the human body. He published a book, A Child is Born of his photographs of the beginning of life, and made a number of films, including the mini-series Odyssey of Life coproduction between WGBH/NOVA and SVT Swedish Television.

Nitrogenous base
A nitrogen containing molecule having the chemical properties of base. DNA contains the nitrogenous bases adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T).

Nomadic
Having to do with nomads, people who live in no fixed place but move in search of food or grazing land  for their animals; of a wandering lifestyle.

Non-coding strand
The DNA strand that serves as the actual template for transcription.

Non-disjunction
Failure of paired chromosomes to separate normally with one going to each new daughter cell. (This can result in a fetus with a chromosome disorder like Down Syndrome).
2. Aberrant cell division in which homologous chromosomes during meiosis or sister chromatids during mitosis fail to separate and migrate to opposite poles. Nondisjunction results in Monosomy and/or trisomy.

3. The failure of homologous chromosomes in meiosis I or sister chromatids in meiosis II to separate properly and to move to opposite poles; results in one daughter cell receiving both and the other daughter receiving none of the chromosomes in question.

Non-recombinant
In mapping studies, offspring that have alleles arranged as in the original parents.

Nonsense codon
A ribonucleotide triplet signaling the termination of the translation of a protein chain.

Nonsense mutations
A mutation in which a codon is changed to a stop codon resulting in a truncated protein product.

Northern blot
A gel-based laboratory procedure that locates mRNA sequences on a gel that are complementary to a piece of DNA used as a probe.
2. A technique used to identify and locate messenger RNA sequences that are complementary to a piece of DNA known as a probe.

Notochord
A flexible skeletal rod running the length of the body in the embryos of the chordates (including the vertebrates). In some simpler types, such as sea-squirts, only the free-swimming larva has a notochord; in others, such as the lancelets and lampreys, the notochord remains the main axial support, and in vertebrates it is incorporated into the backbone as the embryo develops.

 

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