Chemical
Cellular
Tissues
Definitions
Characteristics of Life
100
Smallest particle of an element; Composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons; Examples are C, H, O, N
What is an atom?
100
Basic structures found in cells; Each has a specific function to perform
What are organelles?
100
Most abudant tissue
What is connective tissue?
100
Scientific study of the structures of the body and the relationship of its parts
What is anatomy?
100
Process by which food products are broken down into simple substances to be used by individual cells
What is digestion?
200
Substance composed of a single kind of atom
What is an element?
200
Medium that surrounds all organelles; This material is enclosed by cell membrane
What is cytoplasm?
200
Types of tissues in the body
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous?
200
Scientific study of the processes and functions of the body that support life
What is physiology?
200
Ability to transport an entire being and internal components throughout the body
What is movement?
300
Hereditary code for building and maintaining living organisms
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
300
The cellular membrane is composed of lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins
What is a phospholipid bilayer?
300
Three types of cartilage
What are hyaline, fibrocartilage, and elastic?
300
Five categories of anatomy
What are developmental, gross, regional, systemic, surface?
400
Most stable chemical bond; Shares 2 or more electrons
What is a covalent bond?
400
A cellular energy currency produced in the mitochondria
What is adenosine triphosphate?
400
This type of connective tissue is part of the inflammation and pain response; Produces histamine
What are mast cells
400
Relatively constant state of the internal and external environments of the body that is maintained by adaptive responses
What is homeostasis?
400
Form of sexual reproduction that uses genetic shuffling mechanisms along the chromosomes to give rise to offspring
What is meiosis?
500
Reactions that release energy as they break down complex compounds
What is catabolism?
500
Help to detoxify the cell
What are peroxixomes?
500
Coordinates and regulates body activity
What is nervous tissue?
500
The part of tissue that faces the inside of the body; Towards basement membrane
What is a basal surface?
500
Ability to sense, monitor, and respond to changes in the external enviroment
What is responsiveness?
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