Biotechnology Word Search — Medium

Play a free online Biotechnology word search puzzle. Difficulty: Medium. Find all 12 hidden words on the 11×11 grid below.

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Biotechnology word list, defined

ERGOTAMINE /ˌɜːrɡɒtəmiːn/ (US: /ˌɜːrɡətəmiːn/) · noun
A bitter alkaloid derived from ergot fungus, used chiefly in medicine to treat acute migraine attacks by constricting blood vessels. Related: ergot alkaloid, migraine medication, vasoconstrictor.
ELASTASE /ɪˈlæsteɪs/ · noun
A proteolytic enzyme that breaks down elastin and other proteins, found especially in the pancreas and in neutrophil granulocytes. Related: protease, peptidase.
ENDOSPERM /ˈɛn.də.spɜːm/ (UK); /ˈɛn.doʊ.spɝːm/ (US) · noun
The nutritive tissue surrounding and nourishing the embryo within a seed, formed in most flowering plants by the fusion of a sperm nucleus with the two polar nuclei of the ovule's central cell. Related: nutritive tissue, seed tissue, albumen.
CHAPERONES /ˈʃæpəroʊnz/ · noun
A chaperone is a person who accompanies and supervises others, especially young unmarried people or students on social occasions or trips, to ensure proper conduct. The word is also used for a person who protects or oversees someone in other contexts. Related: supervisor, escort, guardian, overseer.
EXCISION /ɪkˈsɪʒən/ · noun
The act of cutting out or removing something, especially by surgical operation; the removal of a passage of text from a written work or document. Related: removal, deletion, cutting out, ablation.
FERRITIN /ˈfɛrɪtɪn/ · noun
A globular protein complex that stores and releases iron in the body, found chiefly in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow. Its concentration in blood serum is widely used as a clinical indicator of the body's iron stores. Related: iron-storage protein, iron-binding protein.
EPISTASIS /ɛpɪˈstæsɪs/ · noun
The phenomenon where the effect of one gene on a trait is modified by one or more other genes. Related: interaction, modulation, influence, modification.
EPISOME /ˈɛpɪˌsoʊm/ · noun
A genetic element in bacteria, such as the fertility (F) factor, that can replicate either autonomously as a free plasmid-like entity or after becoming integrated into the host cell's chromosome. Related: genetic element, mobile genetic element.

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