Homeostasis in Organisms
What is the process by which organisms maintain a stable internal environment?
Homeostasis
What organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell”?
What is the mitochondria?
What causes infectious diseases?
What are pathogens (such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites)?
What type of molecule speeds up chemical reactions?
What is an enzyme (a catalyst)?
What organ in the body produces insulin?
What is the pancreas?
What term describes an organism’s response to a change in its environment?
Stimulus
What process converts glucose and oxygen into ATP energy?
What is cellular respiration?
What is a weakened or dead form of a pathogen used to build immunity?
What is a vaccine?
What term refers to the chemical processes that occur within living things?
What are biochemical processes?
What hormone lowers blood sugar by helping cells absorb glucose?
What is insulin?
What is the main function of the immune system?
To protect the body from pathogens and disease
What green organelle carries out photosynthesis in plants?
What is the chloroplast?
What proteins are made by the body to fight off specific antigens?
What are antibodies?
What type of molecule do enzymes act on?
What is a substrate?
What is the term for the constant small adjustments organisms make to maintain balance?
What is dynamic equilibrium?
What is a small infectious agent that can only reproduce inside living cells
What is a virus?
What is the main energy molecule used by cells?
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
What is a nonliving infectious particle that can mutate quickly, like HIV?
What is a virus?
What scale measures how acidic or basic a solution is?
What is pH?
What plant cells control the opening and closing of stomata?
What are guard cells?
What type of biological system helps regulate blood sugar levels in humans?
What is the endocrine system (with the pancreas)
What two processes are opposite but complementary in the energy cycle?
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Which disease attacks the immune system, making the body vulnerable to infections?
What is AIDS?
What process builds larger molecules from smaller ones?
What is synthesis?
What type of mechanism helps return a system back to normal after a change?
What is a feedback mechanism?