Marathon Runner
The hormone that is released from the pancreas to allow glucose from the blood into the cells.
What is insulin?
Elephants were poached for these.
What are tusks?
The plague that killed a large portion of the European population in the early to mid 1300s.
What is The Black Death?
The atomic number is also the number of this subatomic particles in an atom.
What is a proton?
Glucose is a an example of a monomer. Starch is an example of this.
What is a polymer?
The very important process that human cells need glucose as an input for.
What is cellular respiration?
The name for a species that is disproportionately important to its ecosystem.
What is keystone species?
This type of trait can be passed down from parents to offspring through genes.
What is a heritable trait?
This rule states that atoms want to have 8 valence electrons to be stable.
What is the octet rule?
What are chromosomes?
This will happen when there is MORE solute and LESS water OUTSIDE of the cell.
What is lose water and shrink/shrivel?
The two carbon sinks that had the most carbon over a long period of time. (according to our online carbon simulation)
What is the deep ocean and atmosphere?
The gene that allowed some people within the European population to better survive the plague?
What is ERAP2?
The electrons in the outermost energy level of an atom.
What are valence electrons?
The protein enzyme that allows for some people to digest milk products.
What is lactase?
The constant (steady) internal environment that the human body seeks to maintain
What is homeostasis?
The gas that is released into the environments when burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
The phenomena that causes changes in the heritable traits of a population of organisms as successive generations replace one another.
What is evolution?
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
The nucleotide complementary base of adenine in DNA.
What is thymine?
The condition that the marathon runner fell into a coma from
What is hyponatremia?
This phenomena is responsible for heat being trapped on the surface of Earth, warming Earth's temperature over time.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Fecal Matter Transplants are thought to possibly help cure this bacterial infections.
What is Clostridium difficule (C diff)?
Atomic mass is the sum of these two subatomic particles.
What are protons and neutrons?
The relationship between DNA, proteins, and traits.
What is "the DNA gives the instruction that codes for the protein. The protein makes the trait/gives cells their job"?