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Another way to say this is "dynamic equilibrium" - the body works to keep itself in balance.
What is Homeostasis?
This disease killed much of medieval Europe.
What is the Black Death, The Black Plague, or the Bubonic Plague?
What is lactase?
This form of cell division is used in body cells for growth and repair
What is mitosis?
In photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide and water, and in reaction with sunlight, produce glucose and this.
What is oxygen?
These organs filter the blood and help maintain water balance in the body.
What is the kidneys?
What is allele?
This type of DNA doesn't actually code for a protein, but may act like a switch that turns other genes on and off.
What is noncoding DNA?
This number represents the probability of inheriting two copies of the same allele from an ancestor that occurs on both sides of the family.
What is inbreeding coefficient?
These two systems combine to control gas exchange in the human body
What are the circulatory and respiratory systems?
This is the scientific term for your body keeping it's temperature in balance. You shiver when you're cold and sweat when you're hot.
What is thermoregulation?
This is a slimy community of bacteria that sticks to surfaces (including your teeth!) and is hard to kill.
What is a biofilm?
Amino acids are strung together in specific shapes to make these.
What are proteins?
This is a picture of all of the chromosomes in one cell in an organism.
What is a karyotype?
This hormone is released by the pancreas and controls the amount of glucose in the bloodstream
What is insulin?
This is the process by which cells turn glucose and oxygen into useable energy (ATP), creating carbon dioxide as a waste product.
What is cellular respiration?
This small particle kills only bacteria, and may be used as a medical tool to kill bacteria but prevent antibiotic resistance someday.
What is a bacteriophage?
This organelle reads RNA three letters at a time, takes amino acids from the cytoplasm, and puts them together to form a protein.
What is a ribosome?
This is a change in DNA. It can be beneficial, neutral, or negative.
What is mutation?
This condition can occur if you drink too much water in a short amount of time, before your body can filter and expel it.
What is hypnonatremia?
People who survived The Black Death may have had this beneficial genetic mutation.
What is ERAP2?
These proteins can bind with a substrate to break them down and speed up chemical reactions
What are enzymes?
As a fertilized egg develops into an embryo, its cells go from being all the same to taking on different jobs. This is the name of this process.
What is differentiation?
BONUS: This is a green pigment that absorbs light energy
What is chlorophyll?