anatomy
This organ cleans fifty gallons of blood every day.
What are kidneys?
This is the proper name for what is commonly mis-named “starfish.”
What is sea star?
A mutation in the HTT gene causes this neurodegenerative disease.
What is Huntington's?
This molecule encodes the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide.
What is mRNA?
Enzymes are this type of protein.
What are catalysts?
The only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
The ocean currently covers this much of the Earth’s surface.
What is 71%?
Amoebiasis, Giardia, and Cholera are all transmitted through this.
What is water?
When an organism has retained a physical feature through evolution that is no longer useful, it is known as this.
What is vestigial trait?
Enzymes increase the rate of biochemical reactions by reducing the activation energy (the energy required to kick-start a reaction). This is the name for the midpoint between the substrate and the product.
What is transition state?
We lose 80% of our body heat from this part of the body.
What is the head?
This diverse group of organisms often look like plants, but are in fact protists.
What are algae?
Anaplasmosis, a disease common in sheep and cattle, can be transmitted to humans via this vector.
What are ticks?
Because of this, identical twins at birth often grow up to look different.
What is epigenetics?
This type of fat generates body heat.
What is brown fat?
Insects have this kind of circulatory system.
Because the architecture and chemistry of this organism is so similar to human bone that it has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bone to heal quickly and cleanly.
What is coral?
The varicella zoster virus causes this disease.
What is chickenpox?
This was the first genetically-engineered organism.
What is a tobacco plant?
Glucose, fructose, and galactose are all these.
What are monosaccharides?
This is the only part of the body that has no blood supply. It receives oxygen directly from the air.
What is cornea?
This is the deepest zone of the ocean.
What is hadalpelagic?
What blood clotting disorder is Queen Victoria blamed for passing on to many of the royal houses in Europe?
What is hemophilia?
Barbara McClintock discovered that there was a change in color in the same corn kernels which was caused by part of the genome being removed at certain stages of development. These genes are known as this.
What are jumping genes?
This is the simplest amino acid.
What is glycine?