Musculoskeletal System
Cells & Cell Activity
Nervous System
Homeostasis
Skin & Hormones
100
Cells that remove and recycle bone matrix.
What are osteoclasts?
100
The locations in which DNA translation and transcription occur.
What are the nuclues and ribosome?
100
The functional unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
100
The three hormones associated with blood calcium ion homeostasis.
What are calcitonin, calicitrol, and PTH?
100
Deficiency or absence in production of this leads to a disorder known as albinism.
What is melanin?
200
Calcium ions are released here to later cause movement of the troponin/tropomyosin complex.
What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
200
When a molecule enters a cell via the proteins on its membrane.
What is facilitated diffusion?
200
Marked by the letter "D"
What is hyperpolarization?
200
Thermoregulation is a process of ______ feedback.
What is negative?
200
The increase of receptors, increasing a cell's sensitivity to a hormone.
What is up-regulation?
300
The hormone that stimulates epiphyseal plate activity.
What is Human Growth Hormone (HGH)?
300
A feature shared by the nucleus and mitochondria.
What is a double cell membrane?
300
The primary intracellular fluid cation.
What is K+?
300
The relationship between molecular weight and the rate of diffusion.
What is higher molecular weight = lower rate of diffusion?
300
The layer of the epidermis in which cell division occurs.
What is the stratum basale?
400
What is the primary function of synovial fluid?
To reduce friction between the articular cartilages of synovial joints during movement
400
This many chromosomes will be present in a newly produced haploid cell.
What is 23 chromosomes?
400
Oligodendrocytes belongs to while Schwann cells are in the .
What is the CNS and PNS?
400
The effect of calcitonin on blood calcium levels.
What is decreased blood calcium?
400
Increases water retention, thus reducing urine volume, and preventing dehydration
What is ADH (antidiuretic hormone)?
500
What is the role of tropomyosin in muscle contraction?
1) To block actin-active sites
2) To prevent myosin from continuing to slide up the actin filament
500
The construction of a functional polypeptide by using the information in an mRNA strand.
What is translation?
500
The neuroglia likely associated with hydrocephalus, a disease caused by an abnormal rise of CSF volume in the brain.
What are ependymal cells?
500
The tonicity of the cells in a hospital patient on an IV solution high in sodium chloride (NaCl).
What is hypotonic?
500
The 6 anterior pituitary hormones.
What are FSH, LH, TSH, ACTH, PRL, and GH?