Infection and Response
Medicines called these can kill bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
This green pigment helps plants absorb sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This part of your central nervous system controls temperature.
What is the brain?
These carry your genetic information.
What are chromosomes?
This state of matter has a fixed shape and volume.
What is a solid?
This is how viruses are usually spread between people.
What is through the air/in droplets?
This gas is taken in by plants for photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
This sugar is found in the blood.
What is glucose?
You get one of these for each gene from each parent. (Different versions of a gene)
What are Alleles?
This is the main energy store used by the body.
What is chemical energy?
Your skin and nose help protect you from this. (another word for microorganisms that cause disease)
What are pathogens?
This process happens in cells and releases energy.
What is respiration?
This hormone lowers blood sugar levels.
What is insulin?
These are the differences between people.
What is variation?
This subatomic particle has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
These white blood cells produce antibodies.
What are lymphocytes?
This type of respiration happens without oxygen.
What is anaerobic respiration?
These automatic responses help protect the body.
What are reflexes?
This diagram shows how characteristics are inherited.
What is a Punnett square?
This type of energy is stored in stretched springs or bands.
What is elastic potential energy?
This is why antibiotics don’t work on viruses.
What is because viruses live inside cells?
Plants use this substance to store extra glucose.
What is starch?
These send messages quickly in the body.
What are nerves or neurons?
This happens when a species completely dies out.
What is extinction?
This process separates different dyes in ink.
What is chromatography?