Anatomy/Physiology
This long, tube-like organ is part of the digestive system and absorbs nutrients from food.
What is the small intestine?
This process allows cells to take in large molecules by surrounding them with the cell membrane.
What is endocytosis?
This item amplifies sounds created within the body, such as the heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
This vitamin, found in citrus fruits, is essential for the growth and repair of tissues in the body.
What is vitamin C?
Spread by mosquitoes, this disease is common n third-world tropic and subtropic regions of the world?
What is malaria?
This organ is responsible for filtering blood, removing waste products, and producing urine.
What is a kidney?
These types of cells are the longest in the human body.
What are nerve cells?
The creation of synthetic ____ improved and extended the lives of diabetic people.
What is insulin?
Deficiency of this particle results in anemia.
What is hemoglobin?
This ancient Greek physician is considered to be the founder of modern medicine. He is the namesake of a significant medical oath.
Who is Hippocrates?
This term is used to describe the surgical removal of a limb.
What is amputation?
These cells are made within bone marrow.
What are white blood cells?
Used heavily in neuroscience, this imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed pictures of the body's internal structures.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
Deficiency of this mineral, commonly found in dairy products, can lead to weakened bones and a condition called osteoporosis.
What is calcium deficiency?
Developed by pharmacist John S. Pemberton, this carbonated beverage was originally marketed as a medicinal tonic.
What is Coca-Cola?
This part of the eye changes its shape to allow us to focus on objects at different distances.
What is the lens?
This phase of the cell cycle follows mitosis and is when the cell divides into two daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
This device is used to administer an electric shock to the heart during cardiac arrest.
What is a defibrillator (or AED - Automated External Defibrillator)?
The amount of energy used by an organism over a specific period of time.
What is metabolic rate?
An incorrect historical medical theory developed in ancient Greece that claimed the existence of four _____, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and blood.
What are humors?
This is the smallest bone in the human body.
What is the stapes? (inner ear)
This bacteria is composed of the smallest known cells.
What is mycoplasma?
This physician/scientist invented penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
A deficiency of this vitamin can make you bleed.
He discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.
Who is Gregor Mendel?