Plants
The leaf-like colored parts of a flower.
What are petals?
An inflammation or infection in the throat, specifically the voice box, which often results in losing your voice.
What is laryngitis?
Published "On the Origin of Species", a book that details the theory of evolution.
Who is Darwin?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
The main photosynthetic organ of the plant.
What is a leaf?
A patient feels nothing when in surgery because they are under this.
What is anesthesia?
These 2 men discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
Who are Watson and Crick?
Type of cell division that produces exact copies, or clones. While some species use this for reproduction, it is more commonly used for growth, repair, and replacement of cells.
What is mitosis?
The number and variety of species found in an ecosystem, when it is higher it increases the stability of the system.
What is diversity?
The pigment found in plant cells that is responsible for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyl.
Branch of medicine that deals specifically with children.
What is pediatrics?
Created numerous detailed anatomical drawings, including this Vitruvian Man, which illustrated acurate human proportions.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The larger of the 2 main cells types, this cell has a nucleus and numerous complex organelles.
What is a eukaryote?
The role of an organism within an ecosystem. For example, a squirrel burrying nuts or making warning sounds when a predator is nearby.
What is a niche?
The reproductive structure of a plant that is formed from a flower and contains the seeds.
What is a fruit?
Name for the listening device, commonly worn draped around the neck, that a physician uses to hear your heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
Invented the modern sterilization technique used for beverages such as oragne juice, apple juice, and milk.
Who is Pasteur?
This type of cell carries oxygen in the blood.
What is a red blood cell?
These species are key for habitat stability. Beavers are an example because without beavers the ponds disappear, changing the entire system.
What is a keystone species?
This is the upper most layer of a forest or jungle, the treetops.
What is the canopy?
4 letter term used in the emergency room that means something needs to be done immediately.
What is STAT?
Mathemitician who discovered the Golden Ratio, a ratio found in many natural structures including shells and flowers, as seen here.
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Who is Fibonacci?
This type of cell, found in umbilical cord blood, can divide to produce any type of cell found in the body. Because of this, these cells can be used to cure many diseases.
What is a stem cell?
This process, which recycles nutrients back to the base of the food web, is performed primarily by bacteria and fungi.
What is decomposition?