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Microbiome
Metabolism (Easy)
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Traits and Reproduction (Extreme)
100

All living things are made of these.

What are cells?

100
Protein is broken down into this molecule in the digestive system.

What are amino acids?

100

This molecule is already small, so it doesn't need to be broken down.

What is oxygen?

100

The instructions for making a protein molecule.

What are genes?

100
A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait.

What is a mutation?

200

Even though they are too small to see, cells are much bigger than these.

What are molecules?

200

This type of body is able to use energy more efficiently than a normal body.

What is an athlete?

200

This medical condition prevents glucose from being absorbed by the cells.

What is diabetes?

200

The place in the cells where DNA is located.

What is the nucleus?

200

True or False: Identical twins have identical genes.

True.

300

An organism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye.

What is a microorganism?

300

Name one of the products of cellular respiration besides energy. Double points if you can name both!

What are carbon dioxide and water?
300

This medical condition limits the amount of oxygen that can be carried by red blood cells.

What is anemia?

300

The ______ of a protein depends on its structure and how it interacts with other proteins.

What is function?

300

The name of the strategy we use to calculate the chances of an offspring having particular genes.

What are Punnett Squares?

400

The human body provides this for bacteria to survive.

What is the environment (food and space)?

400

Name two of the criteria for your health nutrition bars.

1. Meets Metabolic Needs

2. Tasty

3. Cheap

400

This body system includes the heart and is responsible for transporting molecules to the cells.

What is the circulatory system?

400

The process by which two parents pass on their genes to create an offspring.

What is sexual reproduction?

400
The two types of cells that only have one copy of a gene.

What are egg and sperm cells?

500

This reduces the number of helpful and harmful bacteria in the microbiome.

What is an antibiotic? 

500
This is the process (chemical reaction) for how the body uses glucose and oxygen to make energy.

What is cellular respiration?

500

As an alternative to blood doping, this is a legal way to improve athletic performance by increasing the amount of oxygen our blood carries.

What is high-altitude training?

500

The genetic disease where people are missing 1 clotting factor protein and are unable to produce blood clots.

What is hemophilia?

500

The process by which one parent passes on all of their genes to create an offspring.

What is asexual reproduction?