Health Science

4. a sequence of three, consecutive nucleotides found in DNA or RNA that code for a specific amino acid
8. a type of medical emergency that occurs when your body temperature is dangerously low
9. an acidic “smoothie” in the stomach, consisting of partially digested food
11. one of the two main types of micronutrients and composed as an organic compound
13. the first part of the small intestine that helps to further digest food from the stomach
14. a fluid secreted by the liver that helps with breaking large fat globules into smaller ones
18. chemicals that can be applied to skin to slow the growth of microorganisms, like antibacterial soap
19. an agent that transmits an infectious pathogen from themselves to other animal hosts
20. compounds that use oxidative mechanisms to delay the degradation of food

1. an artificial replacement for a body part that was lost congenitally or from trauma
2. an enzyme that can catalyze the joining of cut DNA pieces together
3. any disease causing agent, such as bacteria or fungi
5. a small, non-living, infectious particle that does not contain cytoplasm
6. the type of vaccine that uses toxins made by the pathogen
7. the animal of choice for xenotransplantation
10. created in a process called transcription, carrying genetic information from the DNA
12. a change that occurs in the environment that feedback loops respond to
15. a very recent technology that can be used to edit genes, involving the Cas-9 protein
16. a type of abnormal heart rate that occurs when the resting pulse is slower than normal
17. a method to measure the volume of air and speed of the flow of air in and out of lungs