This is the hormone released from the pancreas that regulates blood sugar.
What is insulin (or glucagon)?
100
A fertilized egg is referred to as a _________.
What is a zygote?
100
This is the term used for any foreign invader in the human body.
What is a pathogen?
100
This is the name for asexual bacterial reproduction.
What is binary fission?
200
The tubes that lead from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
What are the ureters?
200
This is the type of diabetes that develops late in life, usually as a result of poor diet and little exercise.
What is Type II diabetes?
200
The urethra is part of the reproductive and what other system?
What is the excretory system?
200
The type of white blood cell responsible for finding foreign material and destroying it; their name means "cell eating".
What is a macrophage?
200
This is the structure on a bacterial cell that connects to another bacterium during conjugation.
What is a pili?
300
The excretory system's primary function is to regulate the content of this molecule in the blood.
What is water?
300
The hormone that is required for normal sperm production.
What is testosterone?
300
After leaving the ovaries, an ovum (egg) is released into this structure where it waits to be fertilized.
What are the fallopian tubes?
300
These are the molecules on the surface of any cell that are recognized by the immune system.
What is an antigen?
300
This is the protein/sugar component of bacterial cell walls. The abundance of this component is used to differentiate between gram positive and gram negative bacteria.
What is peptidoglycan?
400
This is the procedure in which a patient is hooked up to a machine that will filter large proteins and wastes from the blood.
What is dialysis?
400
These are the glands that sit atop the kidneys and are responsible for releasing the hormone that regulates the "fight or flight" response.
What are the adrenal glands?
400
A vasectomy cuts through these tubes and prevents sperm from leaving the testes.
What are the vas deferens?
400
This type of B lymphocyte is responsible for secreting antibodies that will bind to specific antigens.
What are plasma cells?
400
A virus that only infects bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
500
These are the functional units of the kidneys that help filter water out of the blood.
What are nephrons?
500
This is the gland responsible for controlling most of the other endocrine glands; known as the "master gland".
What is the pituitary gland?
500
This is where B lymphocytes are produced.
What is the bone marrow?
500
This is the structure in viruses that surrounds the nucleic acids. It is made of protein.