CELLS
What disease is caused by uncontrolled cell division?
Cancer
Name the 4 major types of tissues
Epithelial, Connective, Muscle, Nervous
support and protection, body movement, blood cell formation, storage of inorganic meterials
Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac
What is the overall function of the nervous system
To coordinate the body's systems by receiving and sending information to maintain homeostasis
What is the function of the Golgi Apparatus?
To package and deliver proteins produced by ribosomes.
What do tendons connect?
muscles to bones
Where is the ball & socket joint located?
Shoulder/hip
Name the two stypes of myofilaments and what their differences are
Myosin- thick filaments
Actin- thin filaments
What nervous system are the brain and spinal cord part of?
the Central Nervous System
Where does the movement of substances from inside to outside of the cell occur?
Cell Membrane
What do ligaments connect?
Bones to bones
What are osteocytes?
mature bone cells
Which muscles are voluntary and which are involuntary?
Voluntary- Skeletal
Involuntary- Smooth, Cardiac
Which lobe is the motor cortex in?
Frontal lobe
Which organelle is responsible for breaking down substances?
Lysosomes
What is the epithelial tissue responsible for?
cover and protect the body
Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacrum and Coccyx
What is the sliding filament theory?
The theory of how a muscle contracts as the thin filaments slide past the thick filaments.
What are oligodendrocytes responsible for?
Making myelin sheath that provides insulation around the axons.
Which part of the cell form a spindle?
Centrioles
Which is the most abundant tissue in your body?
Connective Tissue
Synarthotic- immovable join, called sutures
Amphiarthrotic- slightly movable
Diarthrotic- movable join (synovial joints)
Where a nerve and muscle fiber come together
Which 2 neuroglical cells have the same function but are found in different nervous systems? Where are they found?
Schwann Cells- in the peripheral nervous system
Oligodendrocytes- in the central nervous system