English for Science

Vocabulary

Contents
    Add a header to begin generating the table of contents

    Vocabulary selected from Curriculum documents published by HKCDC & HKEAA

    File could not be opened. Check the file's permissions to make sure it's readable by your server.

    General Scientific Vocabulary

    File could not be opened. Check the file's permissions to make sure it's readable by your server.

    Short Quiz

    1 / 3

    There are also four ______ residues along this putative lateral gate that have been proposed to interact with the hydrophilic core of LPS as it passes through the lumen. 

    (Excerpt from: Lundstedt, Emily, Kahne, Daniel & Ruiz, Natividad. (2021). Assembly and Maintenance of Lipids at the Bacterial Outer Membrane. Chemical Reviews, 121(9), 5098-5123.) 

    2 / 3

    Our results demonstrate that one can design the effective ______ characteristics of a disordered composite by engineering the microstructure to possess tailored spatial correlations at prescribed length scales. 

     

    (Excerpt from: Torquato, Salvatore & Kim, Jaeuk. (2021). Nonlocal Effective Electromagnetic Wave Characteristics of Composite Media: Beyond the Quasistatic Regime. Physical Review X, 11(2), 021002.) 

    3 / 3

    Lastly, we examined RIG-I binding ______ to the transfected cellular wild-type and mutant IVT-CoV-2 RNA. Both RIG-I RIP and biotinylated RNA pull-down experiments showed that mutant IVT-CoV-2 RNA enhanced RIG-I binding to RNA compared with wild-type RNA (Figures 5D and 5E). 

     

    (Excerpt from: Li, Na, Hui, Hui, Bray, Bill, Gonzalez, Gwendolyn Michelle, Zeller, Mark, Anderson, Kristian G., Knight, Rob, Smith, Davey, Wang, Yinsheng, Carlin, Aaron F., & Rana, Tariq M. (2021). METTL3 regulates viral m6A RNA modification and host cell innate immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cell Reports, 35(6), 109091.) 

    Your score is

    Writing
    Speaking
    Vocabulary
    Scroll to Top