Anatomy & Physiology
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General Science/MCAT Prep
100

The muscle responsible for pumping blood through the body.

Heart

100

This person was known as the “Father of Medicine.”

Hippocrates

100

These are the building blocks of proteins.

Amino acids

100

High blood pressure is also known as this.

Hypertension

100

This is the SI unit of force.

Newton

200

This cranial nerve controls vision.

Optic Nerve

200

This discovery by Alexander Fleming in 1928 revolutionized treatment of bacterial infections.

Penicillin

200

This is the sugar found in DNA

Deoxyribose

200

The disease caused by insufficient insulin production.

Diabetes

200

This type of bond involves the sharing of electrons.

Covalent Bond

300

This muscle separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity and helps you breathe.

Diaphragm

300

The first successful organ transplant involved this organ in 1954.

Kidney

300

The organelle responsible for packaging and shipping proteins.

Golgi apparatus

300

This neurodegenerative disease is marked by accumulation of amyloid plaques.

Alzheimer’s disease

300

In physics, this is the energy of motion.

Kinetic Energy

400

The red pigment in blood that carries oxygen.

Hemoglobin

400

This person created the first vaccine for smallpox.

Edward Jenner

400

The enzyme that unzips DNA during replication.

Helicase

400

This genetic disorder results from a defective chloride channel and affects the lungs and pancreas.

Cystic Fibrosis

400

The Henderson–Hasselbalch equation is used to calculate this property of a solution.

pH / acid–base balance

500

The part of the brain that regulates homeostasis, hunger, and thirst.

Hypothalamus

500

This scientist discovered the circulation of blood.

William Harvey

500

The process by which a single base change in DNA results in a different amino acid in a protein.

Missense mutation

500

The “Philadelphia chromosome” is associated with this cancer.

Chronic myeloid leukemia

500

The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

First law of thermodynamics