MCAT Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions
- Autonomic nervous system
- Bandura social learning
- Cell cycle phases
- Diffraction
- Erikson's psychosocial stages
- Fischer projection
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
- Isomer
- Lineweaver-Burk plot
- Markovnikov vs anti-Markovnikov
- Michaelis-Menten kinetics
- Quantum numbers
- R/S configuration
- Atomic number
- Cardiac cycle
- Chemiosmosis
- Chirality
- Confounding variable
- Doppler effect
- Effect size
- Electron transport chain (ETC)
- Hemoglobin O₂ dissociation curve
- Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
- Protein structure levels
- Base
- Cytoskeleton components
- Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Replication Enzymes
- Gibbs free energy
- Hess's law
- Homeostasis
- Memory systems
- Mitosis
- Nephron functional units
- Nernst equation
- Operant conditioning
- Peptide bond
- Piaget's stages
- Random assignment
- Reliability
- Activation energy
- Active vs passive transport
- Aldol condensation
- Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
- Capacitors
- Codon
- Competitive inhibition
- Confidence interval
- Fundamental attribution error
- Galvanic cell EMF
- Gluconeogenesis
- Half-life
- Innate vs adaptive immunity
- Ksp / solubility product
- Linkage
- Mole
- Noncompetitive inhibition
- Passage-based reasoning
- Amphipathic
- Antibody classes
- Central tendency
- Classical conditioning
- Cross-sectional vs longitudinal
- Demographic transition
- Double-blind RCT
- E1 vs E2
- Equilibrium constant
- Folkways, mores, taboos
- Frank-Starling law
- Heuristic
- Ideal gas law
- Le Châtelier's principle
- Meiosis
- Mendelian ratios
- Newton's laws
- Normal distribution
- Reduction
- Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAAS)
- Absolute threshold
- Acid-base titration curve
- Aufbau / Hund / Pauli
- Beta-oxidation
- Cell cycle checkpoints
- Conjugate base
- Electronegativity
- Entropy
- Health disparities
- Hypothesis
- Kohlberg's moral stages
- Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (¹H NMR) Basics
- Oxidation
- Amino acid (essential 9)
- Buffer
- Buoyant force
- Catalyst
- Conservation of momentum
- Cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism
- Endocytosis types
- Enthalpy
- Enzyme
- Glycolysis
- Independent variable
- Krebs cycle (TCA)
- Levels of processing
- Maslow's hierarchy
- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
- Acid
- Action potential
- Allele
- Bernoulli's equation
- Big Five personality (OCEAN)
- Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS)
- Cognitive dissonance
- Correlation coefficient
- Denaturation
- Endocrine hormones (key)
- Equilibrium
- Initial, Change, Equilibrium (ICE) Table
- Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy
- Kinetics
- Negative reinforcement
- Ohm's law
- p-value
- pH
- Power
- Resistor–Capacitor (RC) Time Constant
- T cell types
- Z-score
- Social institutions
- Socialization
- Thermodynamics first/second laws
- Snell's law
- Social stratification systems
- Standard deviation
- Transcription
- Simple harmonic motion
- Synaptic transmission
- Theoretical perspectives
- Thin lens equation
- Type I vs Type II error
- Vapor pressure
- Selection bias
- Translation
- Sleep stages
- SN1 vs SN2
- Social mobility
- Validity
- Resting potential
- Stratification
- Substrate-level phosphorylation
- Stress response (GAS)
- Trophic level
- Work-energy theorem
- Molecular Biology Genetics
- Physiology Organ Systems
- Chem Phys
- General Chemistry
- Reasoning Beyond Text
- Physics
- Analytical Lab Methods
- Behavioral Cognitive Psychology
- Cell Biology
- Skills for Critical Analysis and Reasoning (CARS)
- Personality Emotion Motivation
- Biochemistry Metabolism
- Bio Biochem
- Comprehension
- Sociology Social Structure
- Psych Soc
- Biological Bases Behavior
- Organic Chemistry
- Reasoning Within Text