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100

The thigh region.

What is femoral?

100

The skin is _____ to the muscles.

What is superficial?

100

A negatively charged ion.

What is an anion?

100

The "heart healthy" fatty acids of plant and fish oils.

What is unsaturated?

100

Division of the cytoplasm during a cell's life cycle.

What is cytokinesis?

200

The ankle region.

What is tarsal?

200

A plane that cuts a body into anterior and posterior halves.

What is coronal or frontal?

200

An inert element will have this many electrons in its third, valence shell.

What is 8?

200

Acts as a proton acceptor, decreasing the concentration of H+.

What is a base?

200

Cells placed in a solution with this tonicity will swell and burst.

What is hypotonic?

300

The point of the shoulder region.

What is acromial?

300

The pathway leading from the receptor organ to the control center.

What is the afferent pathway?

300

Changing the number of neutrons in an atom creates this.

What is an isotope?

300

Water's ability to absorb and release heat with little temperature change.

What is a high heat capacity?

300

Primary location of detoxification and lipid synthesis in the cell.

What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?

400

The calf region.

What is sural?

400

The upper middle abdominopelvic region.

What is epigastric?

400

A difference in electronegativity when sharing electrons can lead to this specific chemical bond.

What is a polar covalent bond?

400

The buffer system that helps to maintain a pH of 7.4 in human blood.

What is bicarbonate?

400

The muscle cells of the heart, with the great stress of constantly contracting, would have many of these cellular junctions.

What are desmosomes?

500

The back of the head region.

What is occipital?

500

A membrane lining the wall of a body cavity.

What is parietal serosa?

500

This type of chemical reaction involves both the breaking and building of chemical bonds.

What is an exchange reaction?

500

Proteins that are water-insoluble, stable, and provide mechanical support.

What are fibrous proteins?

500

This dark staining body is involved in rRNA synthesis and ribosome subunit assembly.

What is the nucleolus?