American Sign Language for Biology

This page illustrates American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary as used for Biology. The signs are intended to be used by ASL interpreters and teachers. It contains a vocabulary list and will display an online video of words used in a typical high school Biology class. The videos also demonstrate these words used in an ASL sentence if you click on the video clip itself.

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Sign Language for Biology

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Absorb
Activate
Adaptation
Aerobic
Amino Acid
Anaerobic
Anatomy
Atom
Biology
Blood
Boil
Bond
Bone
Carnivore
Catalyst
Cell
Charge (electric)
Chemical Bond
Chlorophyll
Chromosome
Clamp
Concentration
Concept
Conservation
Consumer
Cycle
Data
Decay
Dehydrate
Derive
DNA
Dominant
Ecosystem
Egg
Electron
Embryo
Energy
Enlarge
Evolution
Experiment
Extinct
Extract
Fertilization
Formula
Friction
Function
Gauge
Genes
Graph
Habitat
Herbivore
Heredity
Heterogeneous
Homogeneous
Hypothesis
Invertebrate
Mass
Matter
Meiosis
Melt, Dissolve
Metabolism
Microscope
Mitosis
Molecule
Neutron
Nucleus
Omnivore
Organism
Parasite
pH Scale
Phenotype
Photosynthesis
Pigment
Pollination
Pressure
Probability
Proportion
Protein
Proton
Radiate
Reaction
Recessive
Recycle
Reproduction
Shell
Skeleton
Solid
Solution
Species
Sperm
Synthesis
Systems
Technology
Theory
Tissue
Traits
Variable
Vertebrate
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