Biology Quiz 5

Aspirin is Acetylsalicylic acid. It is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to reduce pain, fever, or inflammation.

Oral contraceptives (birth control pills) are used to prevent pregnancy. Estrogen and progesterone are two female sex hormones. Combinations of estrogen and progesterone work by preventing ovulation (the release of eggs from the ovaries).

The average normal body temperature is generally accepted as 98.6°F (37°C).

The Male (Anopheles) mosquito feeds on the nectar of flowers. Unlike females, males do not feed on mammalian blood. They use their proboscis or feeding tube to drink nectar from flowers.

Chlorophyll - Photosynthetic pigment, Nostoc - Diazotroph (bacteria), Transpiration - Loss of water from plant surface, Rust of wheat - Plant disease (fungal disease of wheat).

Nepenthes is an insect-catching plant. It is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae.

Conduction and respiration are associated with plants during the dark period. Conduction is the process by which vital nutrients are transported to the different parts of a plant. This process is independent of the light factor. Respiration always occurs in plants, but night respiration is more evident since the photosynthesis process ceases.

The Red Data Book is a public document that is created for recording endangered and rare species of plants, animals, fungi as well as some local subspecies that are present in a particular region.

The typical composition of exhaled air is about 18 percent O₂, 78 percent N₂, and 4 percent CO₂.

The edible part in the onion is concentric fleshy, enlarged and scaly leaf bases.