living things
all living things are made of these
What are cells?
The particles found in the nucleus of an atom are these
What is protons and neutrons?
the reaction involved in building a polymer from a monomer
What is dehydration synthesis?
The location in the cell where DNA is housed
What is the nucleus?
the tissue that stores fat
What is adipose?
A parent cell with 20 chromosomes that undergoes mitosis has how many chromosomes in each daughter cell
What is 20?
the cells that fight infection
What is white blood cells?
the organ between the stomach and the large intestine
what is the small intestine?
the central nervous system includes these
What is the brain and spinal cord?
What is red blood cells?
the currency of energy
What is ATP?
the sugar, when mixed with water to make a solution
What is the solute?
glucose is this class of molecules
what is a monosaccharide?
What are the alveoli?
the maintenance of a steady state
What is homoestasis?
the outermost shell of electrons
what is the valence shell?
describe the range of an alkaline pH
What is above 7?
role of the mitochondria?
what is the power house of the cell/makes ATP
The 3 types of muscle tissue
What are cardiac, smooth and skeletal?
The order of mitosis phases of the cell
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase an telophase?
What are the fragments of cells that promote clotting
What are platelets?
the structure that increases surface area in the small intestine
What is villi?
The fluid that provides cushioning around the brain and spinal cord
What is the CSF (cerebral spinal fluid)?
A cancer caused by uncontrolled growth of white blood cells
What is leukemia?
the movement that follows a concentration gradient and moves molecules from high concentration to low concentration
What is diffusion?
in a hypotonic environment, water will move this direction
what is into the cell?
blood, hyaline cartilage and bone are all types of this tissue
what is connective tissue?
The conductor of urine between the renal pelvis of the kidney and the bladder
What is the ureter?
The structure that differentiates prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
What is the nucleus/membrane bound organelles?
a charged particle
What is an ion?
the building blocks of nucleic acid
What is nucleotides?
primary components of cell membrane
what is a lipid bilayer
the tissue that includes tendons and ligaments
What is connective tissue?
homologous chromosomes separate during this phase
What is anaphase 1?
the sequence of blood vessels from an artery to a vein
artery, arterioles, capillaries, venules, vein
bile is made in the ____________ and stored in the ___________
What is the liver and gall bladder?
nerves that bring a message away from the brain to muscle or other effectors
What are motor neurons?
The Universal Blood Donor for transfusion
What is blood type O?
converts substrates to products in an active site
What is an enzyme?
the systolic pressure is a measure of what type of action
What is the pressure in the vessels during ventricular contraction?
DNA is replicated during which phase of the cell cycle?
What is S phase?
implantation of a fertilized egg occurs here
What is the uterus?
domain that is home to humans
What is eukarya?
bond that involves the transfer of electrons
what is an ionic bond?
amino acids do this
What are the building blocks of proteins?
The site of protein synthesis
What is the ribosome?
the type of muscle responsible for peristalsis
what is smooth muscle?
the mechanisms of variability during meiosis are these
what are crossing over and random alignment (independent assortment)
the type of tissue found in the myocardium
what is cardiac muscle?
two locations where amylase is secreted
What are salivary glands and pancreas?
The chemical that diffuses across the synapse to trigger a post synaptic membrane is this
What is a neurotransmitter?
the hormone responsible for decreasing blood glucose is ________ and is released from here _________
What is insulin and from the pancreas?
The glands that release their product to a surface through a tube or duct
What is an exocrine gland?
The terminal electron acceptor for cellular respiration
What is oxygen?
location of sperm production
What is the seminiferous tubules?
the pacemaker of the heart
What is the SA node?
the three domains of living things
What are bacteria, archeae and eukarya
strongest bond type
What is covalent?
The building blocks of polysaccharides
what are monosaccharides?
the organelle responsible for removal of damaged cells and debris
What is the lysosome?
the type of tissue able to transfer an action potential
What is a neuron?
an error in the sequence of DNA made during replication causes this
What is a mutation?
blood coming from the vena cava enters this chamber of the heart
what is the right atrium?
the enzyme that breaks down lipids
what is lipase?
The cells of the nervous system that protect and support the neurons are called this
What are the neuroglial cells?
clot formation in a vessel leads to this condition
what is a stroke/myocardial infarction/pulmonary embolism?
the type of immunity that is acquired through immunization/vaccination
What is active artificial?
the build up of this molecule occurs when muscle lacks oxygen for cellular respiration
What is lactic acid?
the structure of the cell is maintained by this component
What is the cytoskeleton?
The process of reading codons from the mRNA molecule and adding amino acids in the correct sequence
What is translation?
A feature of humans
What is bipedalism, brain size, complex language, opposable thumb?
uneven sharing of electrons leads to this
What is polarity?
a lipid made up with 3 fatty acids and a glycerol
What is a triglyceride?
The active transport mechanism that maintains the normal membrane potential of the cell
What is the sodium potassium pump?
the epithelial tissue that has multiple layers of irregularly shaped cells is this
the incorrect separation of chromosomes during meiosis, that causes too many or too few chromosomes in a daughter cell is called this
What is non-disjunction?
The vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the lungs
what are pulmonary arteries?
A disease leading to malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine is called this
What is celiac disease?
the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system comprise this
What is the autonomic nervous system?
the mechanism by which kidney failure that can lead to anemia
What is a lack of erythropoietin?
the cells that make antibodies
What is B lymphocytes?
The process of building large molecules from small molecules
What is anabolism?
muscle tissue contraction requires these 3 components
What is actin, myosin and ATP?
The enzyme responsible for transcription
What is RNA polymerase?