System of nomenclature used to group organisms into categories and to understand their evolutionary relationships
What is taxonomy?
100
The force of gravity on an object
What is weight?
100
Movement of the forearm and hand that rotates the radius laterally around its longitudinal axis, so that the dorsum of the hand faces posteriorly and palm faces anteriorly
What is supination?
100
The rate at which blood is returned to the atria from the veins
What is venous return?
100
Wandering cells that contain basophilic granules composed of heparin and also contain other pharmacological agents such as histamine which are important in allergic reactions
What are mast cells?
200
The four nitrogenous bases in DNA
What are adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine?
200
The most common oxidation state of oxygen
What is -2?
200
The five layers of the epidermis from deepest to most superficial
What are stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum lucidum, and stratum corneum
200
Total volume of the lungs that does not participate in gas exchange
What is the physiologic dead space?
200
Layer of tissue found whenever an epithelium contacts connective tissue and usually contains a semipermeable membrane to allow diffusion
What is the basal lamina?
300
Two-word nickname for the phospholipid bilayer model of the plasma membrane proposed in 1972
What is "fluid mosaic"?
300
The reactant that is completely consumed and determines the quantities of the products formed
What is the limiting reagent?
300
First cervical vertebra
What is the atlas?
300
The only substance whose clearance is exactly equal to the glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
What is inulin?
300
Type of epithelium found in the pharynx at the back of the throat and the male urethra
What is stratified columnar?
400
This molecule occupies the active site on an enzyme and blocks entry of the substrate
What is a competitive inhibitor?
400
This process is the carefully controlled addition of one solution to another
What is titration?
400
The seven muscles of the eye
What are superior oblique, inferior oblique, superior rectus, inferior rectus, medial rectus, lateral rectus, and levator palpebra superioris
400
The six hormones secreted by the anterior pituitary
What are FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, GH, and Prolactin?
400
Process whereby leukocytes enter connective tissues by passing between endothelial cells
What is diapedesis?
500
This type of glucose breakdown occurs if oxygen is absent
What is fermentation?
500
The ideal gas equation
What is PV=nRT?
500
Opening connecting the nasal cavities and the nasopharynx
What are the posterior nares or choanae?
500
Exception to the rule that postganglionic neurons of the sympathetic division are adrenergic in all of the effector organs
What are the sweat glands?
500
New erythrocytes containing residual ribosomal RNA that have granules or a net-like structure in the cytoplasm and constitute 1% of all circulating erythrocytes