Creatures
This shark lives in the ocean are aggressive and live near where people live. They can be up to 11 feet (3.4m") long. They are thought to be responsible for many attacks on people.
What is the Bull Shark?
The four types of tastes your tongue can detect.
What are sweet, salty, sour & bitter?
What is the "Y" chromosome?
Name one of the four macronutrients, and one micronutrient.
What are water, carbohydrates, fats,and proteins? and What are vitamins or minerals?
A butterfly that lives in the southern US all the way to South america; it has a mottled yellow and black body, with yellow and black wings.
What is the Southern Dogface?
Taste buds are organized as a group of cells with an opening at the top which is called this.
What is a bud pore?
A section of DNA that has instructions for how your body works.
What is a gene?
Some of the first experiments which demonstrated the principles of inheritance we know to be true today were done on what kind of plants?
What are pea plants?
These creatures reproduce by budding off a genetically identical clone.
What are hydra?
One calculation commonly used to determine whether you have a healthy weight; athletes sometimes submerge themselves in a tank of water to get a more accurate measurement.
What is the Body Mass Index (or BMI)?
DNA is found inside this part of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This aggressive shark lives far from shore, can be up to 13 feet long, and has fins with white at the tips of them.
What is the Oceanic Whitetip Shark?
The food pyramid, and the healthy plate?
Alanine, Lysine, Proline & Threonine are varieties of this.
What are amino acids?
A disease that happens when calcium levels in the bone decrease with age (more bone is broken down than built up)
What is Osteoporosis?
This insect is tiny with a soft, plumb body and long antennae, and lives throughout the world in orchards and gardens near trees in the peach family, like plum, cherry & apricot.
What is the green peach aphid?
Minerals needed in smaller amounts by the body are know as these.
What are trace minerals (or what are microminerals)?
What are the four letters that represent the four nucleotides that make up our DNA
What are A, T, G & C?
The process used to separate out DNA by running electricity through a jello-like square that has DNA inserted into it.
What is "gel electrophoresis"?