Basics of
Chemistry
Chemistry
Definition of an ion
What is an atom or molecule formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, causing a net electrical charge
Define tissue
What is a group of cells that have similar structure and that function together as a unit?
Plane that divides the body into right and left parts
What is the sagittal plane?
What is the power house of the cell?
The solution we use to confirm pregnancy status in rodents
What is ammonium sulfide?
A covalent bond vs ionic bond
What is covalent = a chemical bond in which electrons are shared; ionic = bond in which electrons are transferred
Definition of chondroblast
What is a cell that produces cartilage?
Name the region of the body for shoulder (not shoulder blade)
What is acromial?
Describe the difference between exocytosis and endocytosis
What is exocytosis - the process of cells expelling their contents; endocytosis - the process of cells engulfing contents
What EFD stands for
Definition of a buffer
What is a solution that can resist changes in pH?
The 3 types of muscle tissue
What is skeletal, visceral, and cardiac?
The difference between parietal and visceral membrane
What is parietal - lines the walls of the abdominal cavity; visceral - covers organs?
Describe the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
What is prokaryote- cell that doesn't have a nucleus; eukaryote - cell that does have a nucleus.
A rodent fetus with a gallbladder
Name the 3 subtypes of carbohydrates?
What are monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides?
Adipose is this type of tissue
What is connective?
The structural organization of the body, or "structural hierarchy"
What is atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organ system, organism?
Describe the difference between mitosis and meiosis.
What is mitosis - cell division resulting in 2 daughter cells; meiosis - cell division resulting in 4 daughter cells?
Dam/Does delivering on the day of the scheduled sacrifice
What is premature delivery?
What is carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and enzymes?
Types of bone tissue
What is spongy, compact, and subchondral?
Name the 12 organ systems
What is respiratory, skeletal, circulatory, nervous, digestive, endocrine, reproductive, lymphatic, muscular, immune, excretory(urinary), integumentary?
the full names of DNA & RNA, and bonus if you can name all nucleotides that make up each one. 4 in each.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid ( Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine) and Ribonucleic acid (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil)
Absence of a tail
What is acaudia?