Anatomy & Physiology
The number of bones in an average adult human body.
What is 206?
The term used to describe the constant presence of a disease within a geographic area or population.
What is an endemic?
The term that describes an organism’s position in a food chain.
What is a trophic level?
A family of beetles that is known for their glowing light at night.
What are fireflies?
This process involves the synthesis of RNA from a DNA template and is carried out by the enzyme RNA polymerase.
What is transcription?
The top layer of your skin.
What is the epidermis?
The term used to refer to a sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in a population.
What is an outbreak?
A biome that has low rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
What is a desert?
Beetles help clean up the environment by eating animal waste.
What are dung beetles?
Intracellular pathogens that possess DNA or RNA as their genetic material, and are smaller than bacteria.
What are viruses?
The outermost layer of muscle. This tissue is composed of dense irregular connective tissue.
What is the Epimysium?
The type of study that compares individuals with a disease to those without the disease, looking back in time to identify potential risk factors.
What is a case-control study?
A phenomenon that causes harmful acidic precipitation affecting forests and lakes.
What is acid rain?
A relationship in which both species benefit from one another.
What is mutualism?
Occurs when a protein misfolds, encoded by the gene PRNP.
What are prions?
A common bone disease where bones become weak and brittle.
What is osteoporosis?
Where the chain of infection begins.
What is an infectious agent/infection/disease?
An index that measures biodiversity by considering species richness and abundance.
What is the Shannon-Wiener index?
A tool that helps you identify insects by choosing between two traits at each step.
What is a dichotomous key?
The method of bacterial growth measurement the involves counting colonies on an agar plate and is expressed as CFUs (colony-forming units).
What is a plate count?
The term used to describe muscles that work together to produce a movement.
What are synergist muscles?
The measure, calculated as the proportion of the population that needs to be immune to a disease in order to prevent its spread.
What is herd immunity threshold?
The type of growth that happens when resources are unlimited, leading to rapid population increase.
What is exponential growth?
The order that includes dragonflies and damselflies.
What is Odonata?
The viral life cycle that involves the integration of viral DNA into the host genome, allowing the virus to persist in a latent state.
What is the lysogenic cycle?