Biology Quiz 2

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the Theory of Evolution.

A raw yolk from one standard, large egg provides 2.70 g of protein 4.51 g of fat.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease, involving inappropriately elevated blood sugar (glucose) levels. Diabetes happens when your body can't take up sugar into its cells to use as fuel.

When the radius of blood vessels decreases, their capacity to hold blood is reduced, allowing more blood to return to the heart from which it is pumped into the arteries. As a result, blood pressure increases.

Radio-immunoassay (RIA) is a therapy used to detect antibody hormones present in blood samples. It is an immunoassay that uses radiolabeled molecules in the stepwise formation of immune complexes.

Ketone bodies are chemicals that the body makes when there is not enough insulin in the blood and it must break down fat instead of the sugar glucose for energy. Testing for ketones in urine is important in people with diabetes.

Vitamin K helps in blood coagulation (clotting). It helps to make various proteins that are needed for blood clotting and the building of bones. Prothrombin is a vitamin K-dependent protein directly involved with blood clotting.

Protein is known as a bodybuilder. It has a special role in bodybuilding because it contains the very building blocks of muscle tissue called amino acids. Protein is a slow-digesting nutrient, which is needed for the repair and growth of muscles and tissues.

Beri-Beri is a disease caused by a vitamin B1 deficiency, also known as thiamine deficiency. The body needs thiamin to break down and digest the foods, keep the metabolism going, and help muscles and the nervous system do their jobs effectively.

The vector of disease sleeping sickness is tsetse fly. Sleeping sickness (African Trypanosomiasis) is caused by microscopic parasites of the species Trypanosoma brucei. It is transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina species).