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Systems of the Body
Immune System and Disease
Ecology
Communities and Populations
Evolution
100
The fluid that flows through your arteries and veins.
What is blood.
100
A slimy substance that traps pathogens.
What is mucus.
100
An organism that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore.
100
An organism that is eaten by predators.
What is prey.
100
An organism's ability to reproduce and survive.
What is fitness.
200
The most complex organ of the human body and the control center of the nervous system.
What is the brain.
200
Disease-causing agents, such as bacteria and viruses.
What is a pathogen.
200
An organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore.
200
An organism that goes after organisms that are weaker than itself.
What is a predator.
200
A scientist that finds and studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist.
300
Transmits messages to the brain or spinal cord.
What is a nerve.
300
Redness, warmness and swollenness are signs of this.
What is and inflammatory response.
300
An organism that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore.
300
The animal that a parasite feeds off of.
What is a host.
300
Where Darwin’s most important findings were discovered.
What are the Galapagos Islands.
400
A thin, tubular, bundle of nervous tissue that extends from the brainstem and continues down the center of the back to the pelvis.
What is the spinal cord.
400
Y-shaped proteins that recognize and bind to antigens.
What are antibodies.
400
An organism that eats what other organisms leave behind them after they are finished eating it.
What is a scavenger.
400
An organism that thrives off of another organism's body. Killing it, all the while.
What is a parasite.
400
When humans breed plants and animals for specific traits in their offspring.
What is artificial selection.
500
There are three types of this. Sensory, Motor and Inter___.
What are neurons.
500
The fluid that circulates through lymphatic vessels.
What is lymph.
500
An organism that breaks down waste of other organisms.
What is a decomposer.
500
A relationship between two organisms where both of them benefit from it.
What is mutualism.
500
The study of why plants and animals live where they do.
What is Biogeography.