Anatomy & Physiology
The muscle responsible for pumping blood through the body.
Heart
This person was known as the “Father of Medicine.”
Hippocrates
These are the building blocks of proteins.
Amino acids
High blood pressure is also known as this.
Hypertension
This is the SI unit of force.
Newton
This cranial nerve controls vision.
Optic Nerve
This discovery by Alexander Fleming in 1928 revolutionized treatment of bacterial infections.
Penicillin
This is the sugar found in DNA
Deoxyribose
The disease caused by insufficient insulin production.
Diabetes
This type of bond involves the sharing of electrons.
Covalent Bond
This muscle separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity and helps you breathe.
Diaphragm
The first successful organ transplant involved this organ in 1954.
Kidney
The organelle responsible for packaging and shipping proteins.
Golgi apparatus
This neurodegenerative disease is marked by accumulation of amyloid plaques.
Alzheimer’s disease
In physics, this is the energy of motion.
Kinetic Energy
The red pigment in blood that carries oxygen.
Hemoglobin
This person created the first vaccine for smallpox.
Edward Jenner
The enzyme that unzips DNA during replication.
Helicase
This genetic disorder results from a defective chloride channel and affects the lungs and pancreas.
Cystic Fibrosis
The Henderson–Hasselbalch equation is used to calculate this property of a solution.
pH / acid–base balance
The part of the brain that regulates homeostasis, hunger, and thirst.
Hypothalamus
This scientist discovered the circulation of blood.
William Harvey
The process by which a single base change in DNA results in a different amino acid in a protein.
Missense mutation
The “Philadelphia chromosome” is associated with this cancer.
Chronic myeloid leukemia
The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
First law of thermodynamics