This term refers to the location of your head relative to your feet. Particularly when thinking above and below/top to bottom.
What is superior?
100
This pH level is considered neutral.
What is 7.0?
100
Cellular energy is created in this organelle.
What are mitochondria.
100
This type of tissue conducts electrical impulses.
What is nervous tissue?
100
Primitive, single cell organisms that grow in a wide variety of places.
What are bacteria?
200
This body plane cuts a body in equal left and right halves.
What is mid-sagittal?
200
This is another name for fatty substances.
What are lipids?
200
In DNA the nitrogen base Adenine(A) always pairs with this other nitrogen base when forming nucleotides.
What is Thymine (T)
200
These type of glands secrete substances that will be used in close range to their source - they will not be used systemically.
What are exocrine glands?
200
Two types of fungi?
What are yeasts and molds?
300
A metabolic process where substances are broken down from complex compounds to simple building blocks, creating energy.
What is catabolism?
300
This type of chemical bonds are most common in organic compounds and are characterized by atoms that share electrons.
What are covalent bonds?
300
The process by which a somatic animal cell reproduce.
What is mitosis?
300
This type of cartilage can be found in the tip of your nose and is often called "gristle".
What is hyaline cartilage?
300
An aseptic practice that kills EVERY living microorganism.
What is sterilization?
400
This is the body system responsible for all human movement both voluntary and involuntary.
What is the muscular system?
400
Monosaccharides or simple sugars fall into this category of organic compounds.
What are carbohydrates?
400
In this stage of mitosis, DNA becomes tightly wound and appears dark and threadlike under a microscope.
What is prophase?
400
Involuntary muscle tissue found in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
400
Alzheimer disease, osteoporosis, and muscular dystrophy are all examples of this type of disease category.
What are degenerative diseases?
500
The ventral body cavity is subdivided into these two main cavities. One is superior to the other.
What are the abdominopelvic (inferior) and thoracic (superior) cavities?
500
These are proteins that catalyze or speed up human chemistry.
What are enzymes?
500
This is a type of passive cellular diffusion reserved only for the passage of water.
What is osmosis?
500
Fatty substance that insulates nerve cells, the presence of which creates "white matter".
What is myelin?
500
Gloving, washing hands, treating all body fluids as though they are potentially infected are all examples of this names set of protocols used to minimize transmission of infectious diseases.