Principles of Biomedical Science
This component of blood composes the majority of blood
What is plasma?
The bones of the wrist
What are carpals?
The circular free genetic material found in the cytoplasm of bacteria
What are plasmids?
The part of the ER where patients are initially evaluated
What is triage?
The type of animal most commonly infected by zombie fungus
What are ants?
The number of points that make fingerprints be considered a match
What is/are 12?
The wave-like muscle contractions in the esophagus moving food into the stomach
What is peristalsis?
A vaccine that uses a live pathogen but without the dangerous qualities
What is a live attenuated vaccine?
The part of a paper explaining the purpose, findings, and people involved in an experiment
What is an abtract?
The name of the frowned-upon (and very illegal) practice that allowed doctors to first learn about the inside of the body
What is body snatching?
Grayish, greasy, crumbly, waxy substance formed on the surface of a body when decomposition occurs in environments with lots of moisture
What is adipocere?
The fluid between the lens and retina
A disorder caused by changes of mutations that occur in the DNA sequence of ONE GENE
What is a single gene disorder?
A hypothesis with no effect of treatment or no relationship between the two variables?
What is a null hypothesis?
The railroad foreman who survived after being impaled through the head with a metal bar
Who is Phineas Gage?
The impulse conductor of the heart
What is the sinoatrial node?
The region of the brain responsible to language production
What is Broca's area?
A tool to edit DNA in cells and living organisms quickly and cheaply.
What is CRISPR-Cas 9?
The degree of relationship between two variables
What is correlation?
A house decorated with human bones
What is an ossuary/charnel house?
When multiple blood droplets are found at a crime scene, an analyst looks at the angle of each drop to find where all of the droplets originated from. This origin is known as the __________.
What is the point of convergence?
The non-calcified tissue on the surface of the whole bone except for where cartilage cushions joints
What is the periosteum?
A type of experiment that tests for antigens (can test earlier than the other type of this test)
What is a direct ELISA?
A parameter that is equal to the number of observations or groups in a study minus some value(s) that limit the observations' or groups' freedom to vary
What are degrees of freedom?
A prion disease causing hysterical laughing, spread through funerary cannibalism
What is Kuru?