A condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in total volume.
What is anemia?
100
The percent of the volume of whole blood that is composed of red blood cells as determined by separation of red blood cells from the plasma usually by centrifugation.
What is hematocrit?
100
An organic monomer which serves as a building block of proteins.
What is amino acid?
100
Having an affinity for water.
What is hydrophilic?
100
The cellular process that results in the number of chromosomes in gamete-producing cells being reduced to one half and that involves a reduction division in which one of each pair of homologous chromosomes passes to each daughter cell.
What is meiosis?
200
The pale yellow fluid portion of whole blood that consists of water and its dissolved constituents including, sugars, lipids, metabolic waste products, amino acids, hormones, and vitamins.
What is plasma?
200
Another word for red blood cells.
What are erythrocytes?
200
A three-nucleotide sequence of DNA or mRNA that specifies a particular amino acid or termination signal; the basic unit of the genetic code.
What is codon?
200
Having an aversion to water; tending to coalesce and form droplets in water.
What is hydrophobic?
200
A process that takes place in the nucleus of a dividing cell, involves a series of steps, and results in the formation of two new nuclei each having the same number of chromosomes as the parent nucleus.
What is mitosis?
300
Any of the hemoglobin-containing cells that carry oxygen to the tissues and are responsible for the red color of vertebrate blood.
What are erythrocytes (red blood cells)?
300
Another word for white blood cells.
What are leukocytes?
300
A rare change in the DNA of a gene, ultimately creating genetic diversity.
What is mutation?
300
The building block of a nucleic acid, consisting of a five-carbon sugar covalently bonded to a nitrogenous base and a phosphate group.
What is nucleotide?
300
A rare change in the genetic material, ultimately creating genetic diversity.
What is mutation?
400
Any of the blood cells that are colorless, lack hemoglobin, contain a nucleus, and include the lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils.
What are leukocytes (white blood cells)?
400
A minute colorless anucleate disklike body of mammalian blood that assists in blood clotting by adhering to damaged epithelium.
What are platelets (thrombocytes)?
400
The creation of a protein from a DNA template.
What is protein synthesis?
400
A cell organelle that functions as the site of protein synthesis in the cytoplasm; consists of ribosomal RNA and protein molecules and is formed by combining two subunits.
What is ribosome?
400
The observable properties of an organism that are produced by the interaction of the genotype and the environment.
What is phenotype?
500
Individuals who are homozygous for the gene controlling hemoglobin S. The disease is characterized by the destruction of red blood cells and by episodic blocking of blood vessels by the adherence of sickle cells to the vascular endothelium.
What is sickle cell disease?
500
Four components of blood.
What are rbc, wbc, platelets, and plasma?
500
A triplet of nucleotide bases in transfer RNA that identifies the amino acid carried and binds to a complementary codon in messenger RNA during protein synthesis at a ribosome.
What is anti-codon?
500
An RNA molecule that functions as an interpreter between nucleic acid and protein language by picking up specific amino acids and recognizing the appropriate codons in the mRNA.
What is tRNA?
500
A condition that appears only in individuals who have received two copies of a mutant gene, one copy from each parent.