EXAM 1
When the body gets cold, blood vessels constrict to force blood to go in different and more important areas of the body.
What type of feedback loop is this?
Which portion of DNA replication occurs outside the nucleus?
What is transcription?
A tear of the ulnar collateral ligament would require what surgery?
What is Tommy John Surgery?
Which neurotramsitter is key to muscle contraction?
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
Which portion of the brainstem is mainly responsible for vital and life-sustaining functions?
What is the medulla oblongata?
A substance that protects cells from damage caused by free radicals
What is an antioxidant?
An increase in cell NUMBER is called ____________.
What is hyperplasia?
What is the best way to prevent osteoporosis?
What is weight bearing exercise?
What occurs when a muscle is stimulated at maximum frequency and cannot relax between the arrival of stimuli?
Which neurological disease is characterized by the formation of beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles?
What is Alzheimer's disease?
What is the monomer (building block) of proteins?
What type of gland has no ducts and secretes diretly into the bloodstream?
What is an endocrine gland?
This process involves creating flat bones directly from mesenchyme.
What is intramembranous ossification?
A muscle contraction where the muscle does not change length and no visible movement occurs.
Which lobe of the brain is responsible for processing sensory information?
What is the parietal lobe?
What is an exergonic decomposition reaction called?
Hint: covalent bond is broken, energy is released
What is catabolism?
A patient who has experienced a Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) may have ___________ of their cardiac tissue.
What is necrosis?
Lighter, wider subpubic angle/arch, pelvic inlet is round or oval shaped.
What is a female pelvis?
When a muscle cell is quickly depolarized and then repolarized it produces what?
Hint: this is a "big spark"
What is an End Plate Potential (EPP)
Which type of signals are transmitted afferently through the dorsal root of the spinal cord?
What is a sensory signal?
At what stage to proteins become biologically active?
What is tertiary structure?
What is a merocrine gland?
What is parathyroid hormone (PTH)?
What is it called when myosin pulls on actin and shortens the sarcomere?
What is a power stroke?
Which glial cells are responsible for myelination in the CNS?
What are oligodendrocytes?