Photosynthesis
This green pigment in plant cells absorbs sunlight to power photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
Instead of soil, hydroponic plants grow with their roots in this substance.
What is water?
This molecule is the primary fuel source that cells break down during cellular respiration.
What is glucose?
People with diabetes have trouble regulating this substance in their blood, produced when they eat carbohydrates.
What is sugar (glucose)?
This hormone, produced by the pancreas, is responsible for helping cells absorb sugar from the blood.
What is insulin?
This organelle is the site where photosynthesis takes place in plant cells.
What is the chloroplast?
These are added directly to the water in hydroponic systems to feed plants since there is no soil.
What are nutrients?
These are the two waste products released by cells during cellular respiration.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
People with celiac disease must avoid this protein found in wheat, barley, and rye.
What is gluten?
This type of diabetes is when the body does not produce any insulin at all, and is often diagnosed in childhood.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
The two products plants make in photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen?
This is the gas that plants still need from the air even in a hydroponic system.
What is carbon dioxide?
This gas is required by cells to carry out cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
This small, butterfly-shaped gland in the neck does not produce enough hormones in someone with hypothyroidism.
What is the thyroid?
This organ is responsible for producing insulin and fails to do so properly in people with diabetes.
What is the pancreas?
The two reactant plants take in to perform photosynthesis.
What are water and carbon dioxide?
Because hydroponics is done indoors, farmers can control these two environmental factors to maximize plant growth year-round.
This is the usable energy molecule that cells produce as the end product of cellular respiration.
Adenosine Triphosphate
During an asthma attack, these airways in the lungs become inflamed and narrowed, making breathing difficult.
What are the bronchial tubes?
When insulin attaches to this on a cell's surface, it signals the cell to open its glucose channels and allow sugar to enter.
What is an insulin receptor?
The chemical formula for photosynthesis.
6H2O + 6CO2 --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
Hydroponics uses significantly less of this precious resource than traditional farming, making it more environmentally sustainable.
What is water?
Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are considered opposites. Why?
They use each other's reactants and products.
People with anemia don't have enough of these proteins in their blood, which are responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body
What is hemoglobin?
When the endocrine system fails to regulate blood sugar properly, glucose builds up in the blood instead of entering cells, damaging this system's vessels and nerves over time.
What is the circulatory system?