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Bacteroidetes
Bacteroidetes, formally Bacteroidota (CFB group), is a phylum of Gram-negative bacteria with classes Bacteroidia, Cytophagia, Flavobacteriia, and Sphingobacteriia, dominant in the human gut and specialized in degrading complex carbohydrates via carbohydrate-active enzymes.
BacTHAFU*UP
BacTHAFU*UP, also released as B.T.F.U, is the debut studio album by Punjabi singer and rapper Karan Aujla, produced by Tru Skool and released in 2021.
Bactria
Bactria, also called Bactriana (Bākhtri in Persian inscriptions), was an ancient Central Asian country between the Hindu Kush and the Oxus, capital Bactra (Balkh), later the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and a Kushan province.
Bactria Regio
Bactria Regio is a 663.10-km-wide regio (broad geographic region) on Jupiter's moon Io, centered at -48.25, 123.53, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the ancient Iranian land Io passed through in myth.
Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, or Oxus Civilization, is a Bronze Age culture of oasis settlements in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, dating from about 2250 to 1500 BC.
Bactrian art
Bactrian art is the art of ancient Bactria, between the Hindu Kush and the Oxus, which evolved from a Greek colonial style into a composite tradition under the Kushans.
Bactrian camel
The Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) is a large, two-humped domesticated camel native to Central Asia. Along with the dromedary, it is one of three living Old World camel species, supporting pastoral life.
Bactrian Gold
The Bactrian Gold is a hoard of roughly 20,000 gold objects excavated in 1978 from six nomadic burials at Tillya Tepe near Sheberghan, Afghanistan, dating to the first centuries BCE and CE.
Bactris
Bactris, also called the peach palm genus (pejibaye, Bactris gasipaes), is a genus of about 79 spiny Neotropical palms in Arecaceae, native from Mexico to tropical America, known for the domesticated peach palm grown for fruit and palm heart.
Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes, the peach palm (pupunha, pejibaye, chontaduro), is the only domesticated Neotropical palm, grown in tropical Latin America for starchy fruit and heart-of-palm; raw fruit needs cooking to destroy calcium oxalate crystals.
Bactritida
Bactritida, also called bactritoids or Bactritoidea, is an extinct order of straight-shelled cephalopods, living from the Ordovician to the Permian and ancestral to both ammonoids and coleoids.
Bactrocera dorsalis
Bactrocera dorsalis, the oriental fruit fly (formerly B. invadens), is a highly polyphagous tephritid fruit fly pest of ~450 hosts, native to tropical Asia, invasive in Africa, and an EPPO A1 quarantine pest.
Bactrocera tryoni
Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly, Qfly, DACUTR) is a polyphagous tephritid fruit fly, the major horticultural pest of eastern Australia and Pacific islands, an EPPO A1 and EU quarantine pest with over 250 hosts.
Bactrocera zonata
Bactrocera zonata, the peach fruit fly or guava fruit fly (DACUZO), is a polyphagous tephritid fruit fly from South and Southeast Asia attacking guava, mango and peach; an EPPO A2 and EU quarantine pest now transient in France, Italy and Greece.
Baculites
Baculites is an extinct genus of heteromorph ammonites with a nearly straight shell that lived in the Late Cretaceous seas of the Western Interior Seaway.
Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 1
Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 1, better known as neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein (NAIP), is a human protein that inhibits apoptosis and senses bacterial type III secretion system components.
Baculoviridae
Baculoviridae, the baculoviruses, are insect-specific dsDNA viruses with circular 80–180 kbp genomes and rod-shaped nucleocapsids in occlusion bodies; they infect Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera larvae and serve as biopesticides and protein expression vectors.
Baculovirus expression system
The baculovirus expression system (BEVS) produces recombinant proteins by infecting insect cells with engineered baculovirus, first demonstrated in 1983 and used for licensed vaccines and gene therapies.
Baculovirus p35, apoptosis preventing protein
Baculovirus p35 is a gene of the baculovirus AcMNPV encoding P35, a 299 amino acid protein that blocks apoptosis in infected insect cells by inhibiting caspases.
Baculum
Baculum (os penis, penis bone): heterotopic bone in the penis of many placental mammals, notably carnivores, rodents, bats, and most primates but not humans; evolved independently at least nine times, lost at least ten times, used in systematics and sex identification.
Bacurau
Bacurau (2019) is a Brazilian-French weird western directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, starring Sônia Braga and Udo Kier; a sertão village erased from maps fights mercenaries, winning the Cannes Jury Prize.
Bad (album)
Bad is a 1987 studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, produced by Quincy Jones and the first album with five Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.
Bad (Michael Jackson song)
Bad is a 1987 Michael Jackson song, written by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones, second single and title track of the Bad album; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 and its Scorsese-directed video premiered on CBS.
Bad (tour)
Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson's first solo tour (1987–1989): 123 shows, 15 countries, 4.4 million fans, $125 million gross, Pepsi-sponsored, Wembley 504,000 record, second-highest-grossing tour of the 1980s.
Bad and Boujee
"Bad and Boujee" is a 2016 trap single by Atlanta trio Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert, produced by Metro Boomin; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in January 2017 via meme-driven virality.
Bad and Crazy (배드 앤 크레이지)
Bad and Crazy (배드 앤 크레이지) is a 2021 tvN/iQiyi 12-episode Korean crime hero drama; corrupt inspector Ryu Soo-yeol (Lee Dong-wook) meets his justice-obsessed hidden persona K (Wi Ha-jun), aired Dec 17, 2021 to Jan 28, 2022, in 191 territories.
Bad Angel
"Bad Angel" is a 2026 melodic techno-pop song and the first collaboration between DJ Anyma and LISA of BLACKPINK, released two days before Anyma's Coachella 2026 performances.
Bad Apple!!
Bad Apple!! (バッドアップル), Touhou Project song by ZUN from Lotus Land Story, famous for the 2009 black-and-white shadow art music video by Anira on Nico Nico Douga.
Bad Apples (2025 film)
Bad Apples is a 2025 dark comedy directed by Jonatan Etzler, adapted from the Swedish novel De Oönskade, starring Saoirse Ronan as a teacher who imprisons her disruptive pupil Danny (Eddie Waller) in her basement; premiered at TIFF 2025, released September 18, 2026.
Bad Ass (film)
Bad Ass (2012) is an American action film directed by Craig Moss, starring Danny Trejo as Vietnam veteran Frank Vega, with Charles S. Dutton and Ron Perlman; released limited April 13, 2012 by Samuel Goldwyn Films, spawning two sequels.