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• Zea mays (Maize, Corn)

  Zea mays (Maize, Corn)

  Introductory (November 2001)

  • P Leszek D Vincent , University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

  Zea mays (maize, corn) is a member of the grass family (Poaceae). It has been an important food crop since ancient times, especially among the peoples of Central and South America
• Zebrafish Embryo as a Developmental System

  Zebrafish Embryo as a Developmental System

  Introductory (March 1999)

  • Sharon L Amacher , University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

  Zebrafish are simple, rapidly-developing animals that are amenable to detailed developmental and genetic analyses. Despite their relatively simple morphology, they share many developmental features with other vertebrates. By combining developmental studies in zebrafish with those in other animals, we will begin to understand the complex events that occur as an embryo develops from a one-celled zygote to a complex, multicellular organism.
• Ziegler, Karl

  Ziegler, Karl

  Introductory (ctober 2000)

  • WH Brock , University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

  1898   1973 German organic chemist and Nobel Prize winner who developed the Ziegler catalysts used in chemical synthesis .
• Zingiberales (Gingers and Bananas)

  Zingiberales (Gingers and Bananas)

  Introductory (November 2001)

  • W John Kress , National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
  • Linda M Prince , National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

  The Zingiberales is a group of plants including gingers, bananas, heliconias and prayer plants. This group is made up of eight families distributed in tropical areas of Africa, the Americas, Asia and the South Pacific. Members are generally herbaceous, play an important ecological role in their native habitats, and are a source of foods, spices, medicines and ornamentals.
• Zygomycota

  Zygomycota

  Advanced (December 1999)

  • Elizabeth Moore-Landecker , Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA

  The division Zygomycota is an important and diverse group of fungi, containing two classes, the Zygomycetes and Trichomycetes.