Biology Flashcards
Largest North American thrush
What is a robin?
North America’s critically endangered largest land bird
What is the California Condor?
Book used to help identify wildlife or natural objects
What is a field guide?
Birders’ personal history of all birds they’ve encountered
What is a life list?
Don’t eat raw meat, especially wild hogs unless you want this infection caused by a roundworm
What is trichinosis? (caused by trichinella)
Dangerous condition caused by lack of blood flow that can result from frostbite or serious bacterial infection
What is gangrene?
Excessive hair growth on unusual areas of the body
What is hirsutism?
Genus of flowering plants from which we harvest cotton
What is Gossypium?
A.R.B.A…here comes Peter
What is the American Rabbit Breeders Association?
Registry of purebred dog pedigrees
What is The American Kennel Club?
A liquid or lotion, especially oil-based ones, meant to be rubbed on body to relieve pain, 8 letters
What is liniment?
a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress, increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism and preparing muscles for exertion: Also called epinephrine
What is adrenaline?
“Smallpox” was named to separate it from this disease, then known as “the great pox”
What is syphilis?
Order Chiroptera, the smallest and the largest
What are bats, Kitti’s hog-nosed bat or bumblee bat, and flying fox?
