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Cells
Plasma Membrane
Homeostasis
Vocabulary
Medical Terminology
100
Fluid outside the cell
What is extracellular fluid
100
Transport against a gradient; uses ATP
What is active transport
100
Disease cause by faulty Chlorine channels that allow too much sodium into the cell
What is Cystic Fibrosis
100
When one solute piggy-backs on another to move across the cell membrane; uses ATP
What is co-transport
100
Term meaning: closer to the origin of the body part
What is proximal
200
Attracted to water
What is hydrophilic
200
Allows some substances to pass through, but not others
What is selective permeability
200
Solution with a higher concentration of solutes than the cell
What is hypertonic solution
200
Cancers that begin in the epithelium
What are carcinomas
200
Dividing the body into front and back halves
What is coronal or frontal
300
Forms tumors, undergoes metastasis, and forms its own blood vessels.
What is a cancer cell
300
Allows substances to pass between cells through a tube or connection
What is a gap junction
300
Molecules that act as 'velcro', help migrating cells pull past each other, and send SOS signals to rally white blood cells.
What are Cell Adhesion Molecules or CAMs
300
Passage of a solvent and dissolved substances through a membrane or filter
What is filtration
300
Divides the body into upper and lower halves
What is transverse or cross
400
First observed a plant cell with a crude microscope
Who is Robert Hooke
400
Diffusion of water
What is osmosis
400
A lump that remains in one place
What is benign
400
Active transport mechanism in which substances are moved into the cell by means of a vesicle formed from the cell membrane.
What is endocytosis
400
The body system that includes the skin, glands, sensory receptors, vessels, immune cells and antibodies and keratin
What is the integumentary system
500
Phase of the cell cycle where DNA is replicated
What is interphase
500
Functions to maintain osmotic stability, a bioelectric gradient, secondary active transport and metobolism
What is the sodium potassium pump
500
Two genes known to be responsible for causing cancer.
What are Oncogenes and Tumor Supressor Genes.
500
The pressure exerted by a fluid
What is hydrostatic pressure
500
The 6 levels of structural organization (in order)
What are chemical, cell, tissue, organ, system, organism