Cellular Respiration
The type of energy cells can use, converted from glucose during cellular respiration
What is ATP?
The term used when sperm and egg fuse
What is fertilization?
A method in which bacteria can "swap" their genetic material.
***What is conjugation?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is skin?
The passing of characteristics from one generation to another
What is heredity?
A scientist that divides organisms into categories based on similarities
What is a taxonomist?
The organism that kills the most people on earth.
***What is a musquito?
Stage 1 of cellular respiration.
***What is glycolysis?
The number of chromosomes in a human gamete.
What is 23?
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
A toxin or other foreign substance that elicits an immune response.
What is an antigen?
An organism's combination of alleles.
***What is genotype?
A solution that has less solute relative to another is
***What is hypotonic?
The only part of the human body that doesn't have a blood supply and gets oxygen directly from the air
***What is the cornea?
The process of releasing energy from food without oxygen.
What is fermentation?
The stage of cell division in which chromosomes line up on the equatorial plate or in the middle.
***What is metaphase?
Bacteria that can make their own energy with the sun or chemicals
***What is autotrophic?
Immune system cells at the core of adaptive immunity that mature in the thymus gland.
***What are T cells?
The nitrogenous base that binds with cytosine in the DNA double helix.
***What is guanine?
The word for "hidden"
What is "crypto"?
The number of heart beats on average per minute of a healthy adult human (will take any number within the range)
What is 60-100?
The cell's powerhouse
What is a mitochondria?
The programmed death of a cell which occurs as part of the normal controlled part of an organisms's growth and development.
***What is apoptosis?
The element fixed by some bacteria, essential for plants.
What is nitrogen?
The chemical released by mast cells during an allergic reaction that can cause watery eyes, sneezing, and swelling
What is histamine?
The type of bond that binds nitrogenous bases in DNA and is considered weak so that the two strands can break apart for replication
What is a hydrogen bond?
The offspring of two different species
What is a hybrid?
The fattiest organ of the human body (about 60% fat)
***What is the brain?
The three products in the cellular respiration equation
What is CO2, H2O, and ATP?
The ability of cancer cells to circulate in the blood and invade tissues elsewhere in the body.
What is metastasis?
The term used by scientists for a virus that is outside its host.
What is a virion?
The protective sheath around nerves that is attacked by the immune system in someone who has the autoimmune condition multiple sclerosis
What is myelin?
The term used by scientists during meiosis where a portion of the gene of the male chromosome changes places with the female chromosome and increases genetic variation
***What is crossing over?
The scientific name for the trigger hairs that elicit a closing response of Venus Fly Trap pads
What are trichomes?
The only letter not used in the periodic table.
What is "J"