Biology

Question 1

A special iron-containing blood protein that binds easily to oxygen and gives blood its characteristic red color.

Answer 1

Hemoglobin

Question 2

The movement of water, digested food, and other dissolved substances into the bloodstream.

Answer 2

Absorption

Question 3

Tiny hair-like projections of the small intestine whose primary function is to absorb digested food.

Answer 3

Villi

Question 4

Signals the liver and muscles to remove glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen.

Answer 4

Insulin

Question 5

The chemical processes of life.

Answer 5

Metabolism

Question 6

Calories

Answer 6

The energy content of food

Question 7

Carbohydrates

Answer 7

Provide most of the energy for living things.

Question 8

Amino acids

Answer 8

Make up protiens

Question 9

Characterized by insolubility in water

Answer 9

Lipids

Question 10

One of the most common forms of cancer, treatable if caught early

Answer 10

Colon cancer

Question 11

What is the energy carrier of the cell?

Answer 11

ATP

Question 12

Important organic substances
found in plants and animals.

Answer 12

Vitamins

Question 13

Most common disease in man

Answer 13

Cavity

Question 14

Rythimic wave of muscular contractions that moves food through the digestive tract.

Answer 14

Peristalsis

Question 15

Scientific name for throat

Answer 15

Pharynx

Question 16

Organs that cut and crush food into smaller peices

Answer 16

Teeth

Question 17

Universal donor

Answer 17

O-

Question 18

Universal recipent

Answer 18

AB+

Question 19

Tough white sac that encloses the heart

Answer 19

Pericardium

Question 20

Scientific name for chewing

Answer 20

Mastication

Question 21

Covers the trachea when you swallow

Answer 21

Epiglottis

Question 22

J shaped storage structure below the diaphragm

Answer 22

Stomach

Question 23

Produces bile

Answer 23

Liver

Question 24

Stores bile

Answer 24

Galbladder

Question 25

Primary organ of digestion

Answer 25

Small intestine

Question 26

The part of the small intestine where most chemical digestion occurs

Answer 26

Duodenum

Question 27

Part of the small intestine where the most absorption occurs

Answer 27

Juojenum

Question 28

Growth in length

Answer 28

Primary growth

Question 29

Older, inner wood of a tree, conducts sap.

Answer 29

Heartwood

Question 30

Thick, horizontal, underground stems.

Answer 30

Rhizomes

Question 31

Special stems used for protection

Answer 31

Thorns

Question 32

One way diffusion through a semi permeable membrane

Answer 32

Osmosis

Question 33

Plant that produces seeds not covered by the walls of an ovary

Answer 33

Gymnosperm

Question 34

Term for an organism using both sexual and Asexual reproduction.

Answer 34

Alternation of generations

Question 35

Feed on dead organisms

Answer 35

Saprophytes

Question 36

Nonliving tissue around cells

Answer 36

Matrix

Question 37

Tissue that joins bones to other bones

Answer 37

ligaments

Question 38

Nerve that connects the nose to the brain

Answer 38

Olfactory nerve

Question 39

Rhythmic wave of muscular contractions, for swallowing

Answer 39

Peristalsis

Question 40

Case where too little oxygen is going to the cells

Answer 40

Anemia

Question 41

Act as roots for moss

Answer 41

Rhizoids