Biology

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Coccyx

Cochineal

Cochlea

Cochlea: anatomy, function, and clinical significance

Cocoon

Cocoon (insect pupal case)

Coelenterata

Coevolution

Collagen

Colon

Colon (anatomy) — structure, function, and clinical significance

Colony (biology)

Colour vision

Commensalism

Common descent

Common name

Common name (vernacular name)

Comparative anatomy

Comparative anatomy: structure, methods, history, and applications

Competition (biology)

Complement system

Complementarity (molecular biology)

Compound eye

Computational biology

Computational biology: algorithms, models and applications

Cone cell

Cone cell (photoreceptor): structure, function and role in color vision

Conjoined twins

Connective tissue

Conodont

Conoidasida

Conosa

Conosa: subphylum of Amoebozoa including slime molds and archamoebae

Conserved sequence

Conserved sequence: definition, detection, and biological significance

Contractile vacuole

Contractile vacuole: osmoregulatory organelle in freshwater protists

Convergent evolution

Coral bleaching

Coral bleaching

Coral bleaching: causes, process, impacts, and resilience

Coral bleaching is the loss of symbiotic algae from reef-building corals, driven primarily by heat stress and other environmental factors; it threatens reefs, biodiversity, and coa

Coral fungi

Clavarioid (coral) fungi: branching, club-shaped and forked mushroom forms

Coral reef

Coral reef — structure, ecology, and conservation

Cork cambium

Coronaviridae

Coronaviridae

Coronaviridae: family of enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses

Coronaviridae are enveloped, positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses with large genomes and distinctive surface spikes. They infect a wide range of vertebrates and include impor

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: biology, disease spectrum, and public health implications

Corpora cavernosa

Corpora cavernosa: structure, function and clinical significance

Corpus callosum

Corpus callosum: structure, function, development and clinical significance

Cortisol

Cortisol: the body’s primary glucocorticoid

Cosmopolitan distribution

COX-2 inhibitors

COX-2 inhibitors: selective anti-inflammatory drugs — uses, risks, and history

Cranial nerve

Cricetidae

Cricetidae: hamsters, voles, lemmings and New World rats and mice

CRISPR

Crop (anatomy)

Crop milk

Crop milk: the avian nutritive secretion produced in the crop

Crossing over

Crossing over

Crossing over (genetic recombination during meiosis)

Crossing over is the exchange of chromosome segments between homologous chromatids during meiosis, creating recombinant gametes, promoting genetic diversity, and aiding correct chr

Crown group

Crurotarsi

Crurotarsi: the ankled archosaurs and the crocodile-line assemblage

Crying

Crying: causes, types, physiology, social role, and clinical aspects