Anatomy+Physiology
This organ pumps blood throughout the body
The spread of disease from one person to another is called this.
What is transmission?
Insects have this many pairs of legs.
What are 3 pairs (6 legs total)?
Units of inheritance located on chromosomes are called ____.
What are genes?
This molecule is essential for fish survival.
What is dissolved oxygen
The right side of the heart pumps blood to this organ to pick up oxygen.
What are the lungs?
The first case identified in an outbreak is often called this.
What is the index case (or patient zero)?
Butterflies help plants by doing this, which is when pollen is moved from one flower to another.
What is pollination?
In humans, the allele for brown eyes (B) is dominant to blue (b). What is the genotype of a blue-eyed person?
What is bb (homozygous recessive)?
This measure tells us how acidic or basic a liquid is.
What is pH?
In the nervous system, this cell type transmits electrical impulses.
What is a Neuron?
He is known as the father of Epidemiology.
Who is John Snow?
Insects’ bodies are divided into these three main parts.
What are head, thorax, and abdomen?
Define and give an example of incomplete dominance.
When heterozygotes show a blended phenotype. Example: red flower × white flower = pink flower
Fertilizers from farms can wash into rivers and cause this kind of pollution.
What is nutrient pollution (or runoff)?
The largest artery in the body that carries blood away from the heart is called this.
What is the aorta?
In a case-control study, 80% of cases were exposed compared to 20% of controls. Calculate the odds ratio.
Odds ratio = (0.8 / 0.2) ÷ (0.2 / 0.8) = 16
This stage of complete metamorphosis is when the insect changes into its adult form.
What is the pupa?
A heterozygous tall pea plant (Tt) is crossed with another heterozygous tall plant (Tt). What is the probability of producing a short plant, and why?
25%
Punnett square: TT (25%), Tt (50%), tt (25%). Only tt = short.
This cycle moves water through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.
What is the water cycle (or hydrologic cycle)?
This gland, located in the brain, is called the “master gland” because it regulates many other endocrine glands.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
When a disease spreads across many countries or continents, it is called this.
What is a pandemic?
*image of a bug*
What is a Hercules Beetle
A colorblind man (XcY) has children with a carrier woman (XcX). What percent of daughters will be colorblind?
25%
(XcY father × XcX mother → daughters: 50% carriers, 25% colorblind, 25% normal).
Too many nutrients in a lake cause this process, which leads to algal blooms.
What is eutrophication?