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^ Knockout, Gene Technique for making genes inoperative in an organism to study the gene's function.
^ Krebs Cycle or Tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle or Citric acid cycle The oxygen respiration chain of chemical reactions in all living cells.
^ Koniocellular (K)~cells ~layer ~pathway Pertaining to a visual pathway composed of axons projecting from retinal ganglion cells of the same name, also named Bistratified cells, to the lateral geniculate nucleus' interlaminar layers of very small cells. And the same name for the corresponding lateral geniculate nucleus cells.
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