MHC - Biology

Biology

  • Myosin heavy chain - part of the motor protein myosin's quaternary protein structure
  • Major histocompatibility complex - a highly polymorphic region on chromosome 6 with genes particularly involved in immune functions

Read more about this topic:  MHC

Famous quotes containing the word biology:

    The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson (1907–1964)

    Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)