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Ubiquinone (medicine) and tumbleweed (sh)


Ubiquinone (medicine)


ubiquinone
<biochemistry> Small molecule with a hydrocarbon chain (usually of several isoprene units) that serves as an important electron carrier in the respiratory chain.

The acquisition of an electron and a proton by ubiquinone produces ubisemiquinone a free radical), a second proton and electron convert this to dihydroubiquinone. Plastoquinone, which is almost identical to ubiquinone, is the plant form.


tumbleweed (sh)




Plant that breaks away from its roots and is driven about by the wind as a light rolling mass, scattering seeds as it goes.

Examples include pigweed (Amaranth retroflexus, a widespread weed in the western U.S.) and Other amaranths, tumbling mustard, Russian thistle, the steppe plant Colutea arborea, and the grass Spinifex of Indonesian shores and Australian steppes.