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n. parasite
(a) an organism that lives in or on a host organism
(b) series of veins
(c) characteristics that increase an organism's ability to survive within a changing environment
(d) a simple sugar that is converted to glucose in the liver
 
adj. premature
(a) infected (as a result of the presence of microorganisms)
(b) swollen and engorged
(c) of recent or sudden onset
(d) happening before the normal time
 
n. wrist
(a) drug that contains salt or ester of nitric acid
(b) unit of energy equal to the work done when the point of application of a 1-newton force is displaced through a distance of 1 meter in the direction of the force
(c) the joint connecting the hand to the arm
(d) group 1V element with the chemical symbol Si
 
n. metallic bond
(a) muscle fibers in the heart receiving heartbeat impulses
(b) link holding the atoms together
(c) an oral drug that reduces triglycerides; potent in reducing LDL cholesterol because higher doses can be given
(d) the coiling of the peptide chains in a protein in specific ways
 
pref. hist-
(a) life
(b) many
(c) tissue
(d) false

 

adv. promptly
(a) common; something that occurs habitually
(b) a little bit; marginally
(c) immediately
(d) uncommon; not usual
 
n. endoplasmic reticulum
(a) one of 2 bags of skin hanging behind the penis in the male
(b) the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline that are made and secreted by the adrenals
(c) illness due to thiamine deficiency
(d) network of membranes spread throughout the cytoplasm that produce membrane lipids and proteins
 
n. fermium
(a) gender; the act of copulation (slang)
(b) vocalization; a formal talk given in public
(c) metallic element of the actinide series with chemical symbol Fm
(d) one celled organism that have a nucleus and are either parasites or live in water
 
n. bronchus
(a) overbreathing
(b) air tube connecting trachea ('windpipe') and lungs
(c) a main energy leve; a group of atomic orbitals with the same value of the principal quantum number n
(d) the lipid bilayer structure of membranes
 
n. addition polymerisation
(a) blood vessel with walls only one cell thick
(b) process in which complex compounds are made by adding together monomers which contain carbon double bonds
(c) one of two or more alternative forms of a gene; can be dominant or recessive
(d) a compound with 2 oxygen atoms in it

n. parasite (a) an organism that lives in or on a host organism
adj. premature (d) happening before the normal time
n. wrist (c) the joint connecting the hand to the arm
n. metallic bond (b) link holding the atoms together
pref. hist- (c) tissue
adv. promptly (c) immediately
n. endoplasmic reticulum (d) network of membranes spread throughout the cytoplasm that produce membrane lipids and proteins
n. fermium (c) metallic element of the actinide series with chemical symbol Fm
n. bronchus (b) air tube connecting trachea ('windpipe') and lungs
n. addition polymerisation (b) process in which complex compounds are made by adding together monomers which contain carbon double bonds

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