Biology
All known life on Earth is based on this element
What is carbon?
The usual response when a stressor involves real or imagined danger
What is a fight or flight response?
The longest bone in the human body
What is the femur?
the number of base pairs in the human genome
What is 3 billion?
The bonds between amino acids
Studied the behavior of dogs using food and a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
These attach muscles to the bones
What are tendons?
the full name of the molecule carrying genetic information (not the Abbv!)
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Suffix indicating a molecule is an enzyme
What is -ase?
This is the maintenance of a steady internal state
What is homeostasis?
The material in bones that produces blood cells
red bone marrow
The six most abundant chemical elements in living organisms (abbv. is okay)
What is CHONPS?
Pancake structure in plants
What are thylakoids?
The part of the brain that plays a key role in forming new memories
What is the hippocampus?
What are neurons?
The four essential macromolecules of life
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids
The enzyme responsible for unwinding DNA in DNA replication
What is DNA helicase?
A sleep disorder characterized by overwhelming bouts of excessive daytime sleepiness and uncontrollable sleep episodes
What is narcolepsy?
# of chromosomes in a haploid gamete produced by meiosis
What is 23?
This element could theoretically replace carbon in alien life due to its similar chemical properties.
What is silicon?