The basic structural and functional units of an organism and the smallest living units in the human body.
What are cells?
100
Directional term for things nearer to or at the front of the body.
What is anterior?
100
This cavity is located near the posterior surface of the body.
What is the dorsal cavity?
100
What are fixed lines of reference along which the body is often divided to facilitate the viewing of structure?
Planes.
100
This process refers to either formation of new cells or the creation of a new individual.
What is reproduction?
200
The highest level of organization in the human body.
What is the organismal level?
200
Directional terms for things toward or on the surface of the body.
What is superficial?
200
The abdominal cavity and the pelvic cavity make up this larger larger cavity.
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
200
This plane divides the body into equal/unequal front and back parts.
What is the frontal plane?
200
This process is the sum of all the chemical processes that occur in the body. It includes the breakdown of large, complex molecules into smaller, simpler ones, and the building of the body's structural and functional components.
What is the metabolism?
300
Groups of cells and the material surrounding them that work together to perform a specific function.
What are tissues?
300
Directional term that is the opposite of medial.
What is lateral?
300
Short answer: What are the two main subdivisions of the dorsal cavity?
The cranial cavity and the vertebral canal.
300
Short answer: What plane divides the body into upper and lower parts?
The transverse plane.
300
This is the process whereby unspecialized cells become specialized cells.
What is differentiation?
400
Short answer: Going from least to greatest, list all six levels of organization in the human body.
Chemicals, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism.
400
True or False: Superficial means toward the head, or upper part of a structure.
FALSE
400
This cavity contains the lungs, bronchi, heart, trachea, esophagus, and thymus.
What is the thoracic cavity?
400
This plane divides the body into equal left and right halves.
The midsagittal plane.
400
This type of feedback system is going to reduce/eliminate the stimulus and turn off the mechanism when the condition of the body returns to normal limits.
What is a negative feedback system?
500
Short answer: Name the difference between anatomy and physiology.
Anatomy is the science of structures; Physiology is the science of how body structures work.
500
Fill in the blank: The humerus is ______ to the radius.
Proximal
500
True or false? The dorsal cavity is superior to the ventral cavity.
TRUE
500
The name for a plane that intersects the body at any angle.
What is an oblique plane?
500
Fill in the blank: Homeostasis is reached when there is a steady state or __________ between all systems within the body.