CELLS
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This kind of tissue makes up the largest organ in the human body, the skin.
What is epithelial tissue?
This type of joint allows for rotational/circular movement.
What is the ball and socket joint?
This type of muscle is attached to the skeleton, and have a striped appearence.
What is striated muscle?
This division of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System? (CNS)
This is the ability of the cell membrane to choose what enters the cell and what exits the cell.
What is selective permeability?
What are squamos cells?
The ends of the bone are also known as ...
What is the epiphysis?
What is the neuromuscular junction?
What is the functions of axons and dendrites?
Axons conduct information away from the neuron.
Dendrites receiving incoming information to the neuron.
This stage of mitosis is where the cleavage furrow forms and the cell begins to split.
What is telophase?
A type of tissue that connects muscles to bone.
What are tendons?
These are mature bone cells.
What is osteocytes?
The thick filaments that make up myofibrils.
What is myosin?
The cells of the nervous system that make myelin sheaths in the CNS and PNS respectively.
What are oligodendrytes (CNS) and Schwann cells (PNS)?
This is the rapid division of cells caused by a mutation in genes.
What is cancer?
What is collagen?
The sutures located in the skull.
What are the coronal suture, the lambdoidal suture, the squamosal suture, and the sagittal suture?
The name of a theory that describes that the contraction of a muscle occurs as thin filaments slide past thick ones.
What is the Sliding Filament Theory?
A conditions which causes the immune system to attack neurons' myelin sheaths caused demyelination, making it difficult for the neuron to efficiently send and receive messages.
What is multiple sclerosis?
The movement of molecules against the concentration gradient which requires the usage of ATP.
What is active transport?
A condition which causes brittle, fragile skin, which bruises and forms blisters easily. This disease is caused by missing collagen VII in the skin.
The pectoral girdle and pelvic girdle contain which bones?
The pectoral contains the scapula, clavicle, and upper limbs (arms).
The pelvic girdle contains the coxal bones, and lower limbs (legs).
This lobe's left hemisphere is associated with logic, reasoning and decision making, while the right hemisphere is associated with creativity and artistic qualities.
What is the frontal lobe?