Anatomy and Physiology
The common name for a rare condition of a dorsal cutaneous appendage on a human being.
What is a tail?
Larger variant of the "sweet" banana is frequently used for cooking
What are plantains?
Gram-negative bacterium famous for a 1993 "Jack In The Box" outbreak.
What is e-coli?
Also called a "molecular machine," this organelle found in the cytoplasm of living cells builds proteins from amino acids.
What is the ribosome?
With well over 50 million downloads, this popular science podcast hosted by Allie Ward is called __________ and hosted __________ on the episode of "Pinnipedology".
What is Ologies?
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Who is Luis Huckstadt?
Omphalophobia is the specific fear of this body part.
What is the navel (belly button)?
Officially recognized as its state berry in 1991, Maine is one the world’s top producers of the wild variety of this fruit.
What is the blueberry?
The varicella-zoster virus causes skin outbreaks in children, and in 1995 the FDA approved a vaccine to prevents its infection.
What is chicken pox?
Beginning with L, these are the molecules that are the primary building blocks of the plasma membrane in cells.
What are phospholipids?
The last widely-accepted sighting of this bird species was in 1662 on the island nation of Mauritius.
What is the Dodo?
The common name for photoreceptor cells in the human eye that are often considered a pair with rod cells.
What are cone cells?
A single-celled reproductive unit that is capable of giving rise to a new organism without sexual fusion, such as those found in fungi.
What is a spore?
The largest living lizard is the Komodo dragon, which doesn't breathe fire, but has a venomous bite that can lead to this.
What is blood clotting?
In eukaryotic cells, the citric acid cycle, also known as the Krebs cycle, takes place in this double-membrane bound organelle discovered in 1857.
What is the mitochondria?
A recent study revealed that this species of wild animal had 40% of the population infected with Coronavirus.
What are white-tailed deer?
Over 50% of all organ transplants in the United States were for this organ.
What is the kidney?
TMV, the first virus to ever be identified, is a "mosaic" virus that strikes this New World cash crop--represented by the "T" in "TMV?"
What is tobacco?
A gin and tonic can be useful for preventing this commonly transmitted parasitic blood disease.
What is Malaria?
Hair-like appendage on a monotrichous organism that serves as an appendage that protrudes out the side.
What is a flagellum?
This dozy treetop mammal can hold its breath underwater for a whopping 40 minutes.
What are sloths?
A Latin word for a type of cake gives us the name of this temporary, nutrient-rich fetal organ.
What is the placenta?
Commonly found on live oaks and bald-cypresses, this is the name of the flowering plant with a doubly-inaccurate name that is referred to as "grandpas beard" in French Polynesia and is generally considered to be in a commensalistic relationship with the trees on which it lives.
Spanish moss
The technical name for the three basic shapes of bacteria: round, called "coccus," spiral, called "spirilla," and cylindrical.
What is bacillus?
The term "ctDNA" refers to DNA from cancerous cells that is found in the bloodstream. The "ct" stand for...
What is Circulating Tumor?
In a feat of inter-species biotechnology, researchers at the University of Wyoming were able to insert the silk-producing gene from spiders into this mammal which enabled them to harvest long strands of spider milk from the animal's milk.
What are goats?