Glossary
Terms starting with C
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- CUSTOMER CONTACT POINT
- The point where the customer and the employee come in contact with each other from a service perspective.
- Cut-off Date
- The date that determines whether a preference immigrant visa applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa interview in any given month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview for a given month…
- Cyberpunk
- Cyberpunk was originally a cultural sub-genre of science fiction taking place in a not-so-distant, dystopian, over-industrialized society. The term grew out of the work of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and has evolved into a cultural label encompassing…
- Cyberspace
- Author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer describes a more highly developed form of the Internet and who originally coined the term Cyberspace. The word Cyberspace is currently used to describe the whole range of information resources available through…
- cyclic AMP (cAMP)
- A form of AMP (adenosine monophosphate) used frequently as a second messenger in eukaryotics and in catabolite repression in prokaryotes.
- cyclone
- a rotating mass of air with minimum pressure in its center. In the Northern Hemisphere, such winds move counterclockwise, and in the Southern Hemisphere, clockwise.
- Cys
- Cysteine (an amino acid).
- cystic fibrosis (CF)
- A potentially lethal human disease of secretory cells, showing excess lung mucus secretion, and inherited as an autosomal recessive on chromosome 7. CF is caused by mutations in a gene encoding the cystic fibrosis membrane conductance regulator, a…
- cytidine
- The nucleoside containing cytosine as its base.
- cytochrome
- A class of protein, found in mitochondrial membranes, whose main function is oxidative phosphorylation of ADP to form ATP.
- cytogenetics
- The cytological approach to genetics, mainly involving microscopic studies of chromosomes.
- cytohet
- A cell containing two genetically distinct types of a specific organelle.
- cytokinesis
- The division of the cytoplasm of a cell into two daughter cells. See karyokinesis.
- cytoplasm
- The material between the nuclear and cell membranes; includes fluid (cytosol) organelles, and various membranes.
- cytoplasmic inheritance
- Inheritance via genes found in cytoplasmic organelles. Extra-chromosomal inheritance controlled by non-nuclear genomes.
- cytosine
- A pyrimidine base that pairs with guanine. See pyrimidine.
- cytosol
- The fluid portion of the cytoplasm, outside the organelles.
- cytotoxic T lymphocyte (Tc)
- T lymphocyte responsible for attacking cancerous host cells or cells infected with an invading bacterium or virus.