General Biology
The meaning of 'organisms'.
What are living things?
Controls everything that the cell does.
What is the nucleus?
The process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Defends the body against disease
What is immune system?
The system involved in digesting food.
What is the digestive system?
The name of the biological science in which plants are studied.
What is botany?
Controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Name of the pores in plant leaves through which gases are exchanged with the environment.
What are stomata?
System containing the spinal cord.
What is the nervous system?
Deficiency disease when you don't have enough iron.
What is anaemia?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
What two reactants are needed in the photosynthesis reaction?
What are water and carbon dioxide?
System containing bronchi.
What is the respiratory system?
Deficiency disease when you don't have enough vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
The term for when there are no more individuals alive from a particular species.
What is extinction?
The vessels that carry water in a plant.
What are xylem vessels?
System involved in the transportation of oxygen, nutrients, and wastes through the body?
What is circulatory system?
This vitamin is made when the skin is exposed to sunlight.
What is vitamin D?
Mycology is the study of this.
What is fungi?
The male part of a flower
What is the stamen?
The system containing the kidneys.
What is the excretory system?
A diet that contains all of the nutrients in the correct amounts and proportion.
What is a balanced diet?