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Xyloses
- noun - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
Zapotec
- adjective - a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900
- of or relating to the language or culture of the Zapotec people
- the language of the Zapotec
Zygotes
- noun - (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)
Zymogen
- noun - any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active
Zymoses
- noun - (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol