Organization of the Human Body
Intro to Chemistry
Cells
Tissues
Integumentary System
100
The level of organization when different tissues join together.
What is the organ level?
100
Atoms share pairs of electrons in ________________ bonds.
What is covalent?
100
The liquid portion of the cytoplasm that surrounds organelles?
What is Cytosol?
100
__________ glands secrete into the bloodstream; __________ glands secrete into ducts.
What are Endocrine, Exocrine
100
Accessory structures of the skin include _______________ . (name 2)
What are hair, glands, and nails?
200
The plane that divides the body into unequal left and right portions.
What is the parasaggital plane?
200
Organic compounds always contain this element..
What carbon?
200
When the extracellular fluid contains a greater concentration of solutes than the cytosol of the cell, the extracellular fluid is said to be ___________.
What is hypertonic?
200
Epithelial tissue can be classified according to __________ and __________.
What are shape and arrangement of cells?
200
If you pricked your fingertip with a needle, the first layer of epidermis that it would penetrate is the a. stratum basale b. stratum corneum c. stratum granulosum d. stratum lucidum e. stratum spinosum
What is stratum corneum?
300
In the anatomical position, the thumb is _________ to the little finger.
What is lateral?
300
`What the body uses to prevent rapid, drastic changes in the pH.
What are buffer systems?
300
The way many white blood cells engulf and destroy bacteria?
What is phagocytosis?
300
A connective tissue with a liquid extracellular matrix.
What is blood or lymph?
300
Characteristics of eccrine sweat glands include _________ (name 2).
*They are most numerous on the skin of the forehead, palms and the soles. *They help regulate body temperature. *They function throughout life. *They terminate at pores on the skin's surface.
400
The ___________ cavity is formed by the bones of the skull and contains the brain.
What is cranial?
400
This is how an atom becomes an ion.
What is 'by giving up or gaining an electron'
400
A CGT base triplet is copied in mRNA as _______.
What is GCA?
400
These connective tissue cells produce antibodies.
What are plasma cells?
400
These are the ABCDE of skin cancer screening.
What are Asymmetry, Borders, Color, Diameter, Evolving
500
A process where unspecialized cells become specialized cells.
What is differentiation?
500
A protein that loses its shape and is no longer functional.
What is denatured?
500
The stage of mitosis where the centromeres split and move to the opposite poles of the cell.
What is Anaphase?
500
___________ and ___________ make up the extracellular matrix of connective tissue.
What are ground substance and fibers (collagen fibers, elastic fibers, reticular fibers).
500
This is the process where newly formed cells in the stratum basale are slowly pushed to the surface.
What is keratinization?