Anatomy and Physiology
This organ pumps blood
What is the heart?
This organelle is used to store nutrients in a cell
What is a vacuole?
This body system includes the heart and blood vessels
What is the cardiovascular system?
This is the most common blood type
What is O+?
These bones protect the brain
What is the skull?
This sugar is the main product of photosynthesis
What is glucose?
This term refers to the process of maintains internal balance in the body
What is homeostasis?
This part of your body is where your skin is the thinnest.
What is the eyelid?
The protein that allows muscles to contract
What is actin or myosin?
This ecological event occurs when algae bloom heavily and cover the entire surface of a body of water.
What is eutrophication?
This organ stores bile and is located beneath the liver
What is the gallbladder?
This is the largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
The neurotransmitter deficient in Parkinson's disease
What is dopamine?
This process converts mRNA to proteins using tRNA
What is translation?
This directional term means “closer to the point of attachment”
What is proximal?
Code Blue stands for this in a hospital
What is a medical emergency usually involving cardiac arrest?
The ion channel that initiates action potentials
What is the voltage-gated sodium channel?
This theory explains how mitochondria and chloroplasts originated from symbiotic bacteria.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
This plane divides the body into left and right halves
What is the Sagittal Plane?
This is the common name for the disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus.
What is Chicken Pox?