Water
Water is able to dissolve more substances than any other liquid, giving it this nickname.
What is the universal solvent?
The prefix "carbo" in carbohydrates refers to this element, which is necessary for a compound to be considered organic.
What is carbon?
Going vegan? These are a great source of protein. Eat them with rice, in chili, or mashed into a burger!
What are beans?
This is the sum of all bodily processes. If you have a fast one, you're probably slim and slender!
What is metabolism?
This is a thing or event that produces a reaction.
What is a stimulus?
Still unsure of water is essential for life? Well, the ocean covers about 71% of the Earth, and the human body is approximately this percentage water.
What is 78%?
The building blocks of carbohydrates are known as monosaccharides AKA simple ____________.
What are sugars?
Baleen, which the "toothless" whales have instead, is made of keratin, a protein that also forms our _____________.
What are hair and/or nails?
The two methods of this are sexual, in the offspring receives half of its genes from each parent, and asexual, in which one parent passes down a full set of genes.
What is reproduction?
The maintenance of a steady internal state is called this.
Used primarily in the US, the Farenheit system has water freeze at 32 degrees and boil at 212 degrees. The more widely used Celsius has freezing and boiling points of these temperatures.
What is 0 and 100 degrees?
Athletes often eat a pasta dinner to carbo-load before a big game or race, because carbohydrates are a source of ______________________.
What is quick energy?
Proteins play many roles in building structures and carrying instructions around cells and the body. This molecule contains the instructions for building proteins.
What is DNA?
This is the smallest unit that can perform all of life's processes.
What is a cell?
Compared to most mammals, humans take a long time to _____________ and _______________ into adults.
What is grow and develop?
What is less dense?
This is the "good" type of fat that comes from plants, and is found in oils such as olive, coconut, and avocado.
What is unsaturated?
Humans share 98.8% of their DNA with this primate.
What is a chimpanzee?
Multicellular organisms have many cells (100 quadrillion in a blue whale!), while this type of organism is made of a single cell.
What is unicellular?
When traveling from Quincy to Denver, CO, one might experience altitude sickness, and will need to take some time to ______________ to the change in elevation and oxygen levels.
What is adapt?
The slightly positive hydrogen parts of the water molecule are attracted to the slightly negative oxygen parts of neighboring water molecules. The different charges on either end of the molecule make water a ___________ molecule.
What is polar?
Before hibernating for the winter, bears will pack on a lot of poundage to build up their fat. This will keep them warm and serve as _____________________ to keep their bodies working even in their dormant state.
What is stored energy?
This molecule, probably very important in forming early life, has three types: messenger, transfer, and ribosomal.
What is RNA?
All living things contain these two nucleic acids.
What are DNA and RNA?
This process was first studied intently in the finches of the Galapagos islands. Its driving force? Natural selection.
What is evolution?