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Biology Terms #5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ventricle | the lower chamber(s) of the heart |
| xylem | a tissue in plants that transfers water from roots to leaves |
| mesophyll | in leaves, a tissue where photosynthesis occurs |
| milt | in fish, the fluid containing sperm |
| methanogen | a bacteria that produces methane gas without the presence of oxygen |
| imprinting | a behavior process that cause young animals to follow the first moving thing seen after birth |
| macrophage | a large white blood cell that can engulf bacteria |
| invertebrate | an animal without a backbone |
| gizzard | a muscular organ in birds and earthworms that crushes food |
| Harversian canal | a chanel containing nerves and blood vessels making up compact bone |
| heterocyst | a cell in blue green bacteria that changes nitrogen |
| cytokinins | plant hormones that promote cell division |
| hemotoxin | a part in snake venom that destroys red blood cells and disrupts the clotting of blood |
| digitalis | a medicine used in the treatment of heart desiese |
| capsid | a protien that surrounds a virus |