Introduction
Cells
Tissues
Bones
Muscles
100
This body system that controls body coordination.
What is the nervous system?
100
This is the basic unit of structure and function of the body.
What is the cell?
100
A group of cells working together.
What is a tissue?
100
The vertebrae are a part of this segment of the skeletion. (Choose Axial or Appendicular)
What is Axial?
100
The neurotransmitter for the muscular system.
What is acetylcholine?
200
The ability of your body to maintain a controlled equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
200
The diffusion of water across a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
200
This tissue type is responsible for lining body cavities, and may function in secretion and absorption.
What is epithelial tissue?
200
The term for the shaft of a long bone.
What is the diaphysis?
200
The connection between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber.
What is a neuromuscular junction?
300
The directional term describing the position of the nose compared to the mouth.
What is superior?
300
This process allows cells to engulf and take in large particles - it is known as "cell eating".
What is phagocytosis?
300
This type of tissue is made mainly of extracellular matrix and provides support and protection.
What is connective tissue?
300
In an adult's bones, hyaline cartilage is only found here.
What is the articular surfaces of the epiphyses.
300
A neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates.
What is a motor unit?
400
The section where brain that is cut into right and left halves.
What is sagittal?
400
Movement of substances down their concentration gradient, doesn't take energy.
What is diffusion?
400
The process where an mRNA strand is made fromDNA.
What is transcription?
400
Name two of the functions of the skeletal system.
What are support, protection, hematopoiesis, or movement?
400
Calcium used to allow attachment between myosin and actin is stored in this organelle.
What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
500
A section that would separate the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity.
What is a transverse section?
500
The mRNA message if its DNA sequence is GGG.
What is CCC?
500
These are the "Three T's" of protein synthesis.
What are Transcription, Travel, and Translation?
500
The type of joint that is present at the articulation of the femur and the acetabulum of the hip. (Choose from cartilage, fibrous, or synovial)
What is synovial?
500
A state of sustained contraction of individual muscle fibers, even at rest.
What is muscle tone?
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