The cranial and spinal cavities are are part of this larger cavity.
What is the dorsal cavity?
This subatomic particle has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
This process produces two identical offspring cells.
What is mitosis?
This cell shape is like a cube.
What is cuboidal?
A fever is an example of this type of inflammatory response.
What is systemic?
This is the process of the body maintaining its various properties (temperature, pH, chemical concentrations, etc.)
What is homeostasis?
Cholesterol and steroids are examples of this major type of organic compound.
What is a lipid?
Nicknamed "digestive bags", this organelle breaks down nutrients and foreign microbes.
What is a lysosome?
This fluid environment fills the spaces between cells.
What is the extacellular matrix (or just matrix)?
A Papanicolaou test (Pap smear) is a biopsy used to detect this kind of pathology.
What is cancer (neoplasm or cervical cancer)?
What is the umbilical region?
The number of protons in a element's nucleus.
What is atomic number?
This organelle is studded with ribosomes and is the site of RNA translation.
What is rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Tendons connect these two tissue types.
What is connective and muscle tissue?
Penicillin is an example of drug used to treat what kind of pathogenic infection?
What is bacterial infection?
This plane separates the body into left and right halves.
What is the midsagittal plane?
This type of chemical bond helps water molecules to form weak bonds with other water molecules.
What is a hydrogen bond?
A sodium-potassium pump differs from diffusion of sodium or potassium in that it requires this chemical.
What is ATP?
Cardiac and skeletal muscle have this visual characteristic in common.
What are striations?
Histamine, prostaglandin, and kinin release may occur in this type of response.
What is the inflammatory (Immune) response?
The thoracic cavity is made up of these two, or three, specific cavities.
What are the mediastinum and pleural cavities?
The nitrogenous bases that make up RNA are the same as DNA except this single nitrogen base.
What is Uracil?
These are the mechanisms of first converting deoxyribonucleic acid into ribonucleic acid, then ribonucleic acid into strings of amino acids.
What is transcription and translation?
Stretch marks are caused by tears in this specific type of tissue.
What is irregular dense fibrous connective tissue?
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are the result of infection with this type of pathogen and exclusively produces degeneration of this organ system.
What is prion and nervous system?