Homeostasis & Feedback Mechanisms
Immune System
Viruses and COVID-19
Bone Identification
Types of Fractures
100
Any external signal that causes a fluctuation from a set point.
What is a stimulus?
100
The skin is part of this subcategory of the immune system.
What is the innate immune system?
100
What is COVID-19?
100
Bone 1
What is the mandible?
100
This type of fracture breaks through the skin.
What is an open fracture?
200
Your body shivering is this type of feedback.
What is negative feedback?
200
Proteins that are produced by B-Cells.
What are antibodies?
200
Structure B
What is the capsid?
200
Bone 7
What is the clavicle?
200
This type of fracture leaves your bones misaligned.
What is a displaced fracture?
300
Blood clotting is this type of feedback.
What is positive feedback?
300
A type of "medicine" that introduces an antigen to your immune system to prepare for future infections.
What is a vaccine?
300
The protein on the surface of COVID-19 that carries the main antigen.
What is the spike (s) protein?
300
Bone 8
What is the humerus?
300
The type of fracture show in this x-ray image.
What is closed/non-displaced/transverse?
400
Thermoregulation is a common form of this type of feedback.
What is negative feedback?
400
Any substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against it.
What is an antigen?
400
The next step after 'attachment' in a virus lifecycle.
What is entry?
400
Bone 2
What is the sternum?
400
A type of fracture that results in bone being broken into multiple pieces or fragments.
What is comminuted fracture?
500
The release of oxytocin that stimulates uterine contractions is an example of this type of feedback.
What is positive feedback?
500
Once activated by a helper T-cell, this type of B cell releases antibodies into the blood stream.
What are plasma cells?
500
This type of viral RNA must first be converted into a different form before creating proteins.
What is negative-sense RNA?
500
Bone 19
What are the phalanges?
500
A type of fracture that results in the bone bending rather than breaking.
What is greenstick?