Anatomy & Physiology
[IMMUNE SYSTEM] - This viral disease attacks the body’s immune system and can lead to AIDS
What is HIV?
An epidemic that has spread rapidly across multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
This plant organ anchors the plant to the ground and absorbs water and other nutrients.
What are roots?
An allele that is expressed over other, recessive alleles
The process in the water cycle that converts liquid water from plant leaves into water vapor.
What is evaporation? or What is transpiration?
[RESPIRATORY SYSTEM] - This molecule in red blood cells binds to and transports oxygen throughout throughout the body.
What is hemoglobin?
The primary federal agency in the United States responsible for supporting public health activities. (hint: known by 3 letters)
What is the CDC?
This fundamental chemical process allows plants to use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy-rich foodstuff
What is photosynthesis?
The method of asexual reproduction in eukaryotic organisms.
This measure of acidity or alkalinity uses a scale from 0 to 14, where 7 is completely neutral.
What is pH?
[RESPIRATORY SYSTEM] - This muscle beneath the lungs contracts and flattens to help with breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
A group of eukaryotic organisms, including yeast and mold, which often causes infections like ringworm or athletes foot.
What are fungi?
Which rigid outer layer is found in plant cells to provide structural support and protection, but is completely absent in animal cells?
What is the cell wall?
The percentage of offspring that are purple flowers if you cross a homozygous dominant purple flower (PP) with a homozygous recessive white flower (pp).
What is 100%?
This term describes pollution that comes from a single, identifiable source, like a factory discharge pipe.
What is point source pollution?
[IMMUNE SYSTEM] - A severe, life threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?
The disease that the first vaccine was made to protect against. (hint: similar to cowpox)
What is smallpox?
The primary pigment that absorbs lights in plants and gives them their green color?
What is chlorophyll?
The term that describes the physical, observable appearance or expression of a trait in an organism.
What is a phenotype?
This term refers to the cloudiness or murkiness of water caused by suspended particles like clay or silt.
What is turbidity?
[DIGESTIVE SYSTEM] - This condition causes people to experience digestive discomfort because their bodies cannot easily break down the sugars in milk.
What is lactose intolerance?
A type of science focusing on preventing and disease and promoting health in entire populations rather than individual patients.
What is public health?
Who is Robert Hooke?
A chemical component of a nucleotide (a building block of DNA) - (hint: three correct answers)
What is a nitrogenous base?
What is a phosphate group?
What is a deoxyribose sugar?
This process occurs when excess nutrients (like fertilizers) run into water, causing massive algae blooms that deplete oxygen.
What is eutrophication?