Cellular Biology
20 different kinds of these are needed to make all of the proteins humans require. Eight of these are only found in foods and cannot be made by the human body
What are Amino Acids?
These digest food outside of their bodies and absorb the nutrients
What are fungi?
This sheep was the first cloned animal in history
Who is Dolly?
This respiratory disorder affects 9% of Canadians and is the cause of 10 deaths weekly
What is Asthma?
This cold layer in the soil of the Tundra contributes to it's low biodiversity by limiting the vegetation that are able to grow in these regions
What is permafrost?
This type of carbohydrate is not sweet and will not dissolve in water
What is a polysaccharide?
all cells in the human body are diploid where as gametes are these
What are haploid?
This technique is the process with which one takes for example, a branch of one type of tree and attaches it to another usually to bear fruit such as the case with Macintosh apples
What is grafting?
This term refers to the gas exchange that takes place in the lungs when oxygen poor blood releases carbon dioxide and absorbs oxygen in its place
What is ventilation?
In phototropism, this plant growth hormone is reactive to the sun and either stimulates or inhibits stem growth for example
What is auxin?
What is a carbon backbone?
When a microbe does this, old antibodies that once made an animal immune to this microbe will no longer work to defend against it
What is evolve?
The acronym 'GMO' stands for this
What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
The aorta feeds blood into the arteries which feed blood into the arterioles which finally feed blood into these
What are Capillaries?
This type of soil contains decaying matter and is found in the B horizon
What is Loam?
When sugar goes through other reactions to form a starch or cellulose it is called this
What is polymerization?
Flavobacterium can be used to assist in cleaning up the environment from these spills
What are Gas spills?
Parents have two of these for every trait
What are Alleles?
This pea sized part of the endocrine system is found at the base of the brain and controls most of the hormones in the human body
What is the pituitary gland?
This largest grouping of all plants (more than half of all plant species) many of which flower, have a covered seed
What are angiosperms?
Haemogloben contain amino acids and protein chains that fold in a way that allow for it to perfectly fit and carry this
What is an oxygen molicule?
The second of the 3 lines of defense in the immune system is this which includes the circulatory system
What is the Lymphatic System?
this process is used to produce gametes and can occur in both plants and animals. In plants this process occurs in the stamen and the pistil, and in animals this occurs in the testis and the ovaries
What is meiosis?
This type of neural circuit is responsible for a quick reaction such as pulling your hand away after touching something uncomfortably hot
What is a reflex arc?
The 5 major groupings of hormones in plants
What are auxin, ethylene, gibberellin, cytokinin and abscisic acid?