Chemistry 101
The discipline that deals with matter, its transformations and the energy that is released and absorbed
What is chemistry?
A subatomic particle with no charge
What is a neutron?
An atom that has an electrical charge, either positive or negative
What is an ion?
The solvent in which the processes of life occur
What is water?
The plane that defines a left and right side
What is the sagittal plane?
The smallest unit of an element
What is an atom?
An subatomic particle that weighs less than a thousandth of a mass unit in weight
What is an electron?
An atom that has a net negative charge
What is an anion?
The weakest of the four kinds of bonds
What are hydrogen bonds?
The two cavities that compose the dorsal cavity
What are the Cranial and Vertebral cavities?
The number that determines which element an atom is
What is the atomic number?
A more expensive imaging technique that does not expose patients to radiation
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
What is the octet rule?
Simple carbohydrates that are six or five sided rings of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen
What are monosaccharides?
The region on the bottom right of the abdominopelvic cavity
What is the right iliac region?
A very large number we use to measure the weight of atoms using grams
What is Avogadro's number?
Contains the instructions for production of essential cellular machinery
What is DNA?
A bond with uneven charge distribution across the molecule
What is a polar covalent bond?
Transporter molecule that carries oxygen's from our lungs to other tissues
What is Haemoglobin?
The system that houses the trachea
What is the respiratory system?
An element that makes up 0.3% of our bodies
What is sulfur?
The time it takes for half the atoms to radioactively decay
What is radioactive half-life?
A specialised process to catch free radicals and prevent them from causing damage
What is an antioxidant?
Diseases that are caused by misfolded proteins that cause more normal proteins to become misfolded and behave differently. An example of this is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
What are prion diseases?
A feedback loop that has a definite end point (when normal)
What is a positive feedback loop?