Nervous System
A bundle of neurons
What is a nerve?
A cord has original length of 100m is pulled by a force. The change in length of the cord is 10m. Determine the strain!
What is 0.10?
An artificial device that replaces a missing body part
FDA
What is food and drug administration?
The SI unit for length
What is meter (m)?
The change in electrical potential associated with the passage of an impulse along the membrane of a nerve cell
What is action potential?
Law that says an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's first law?
Uses sound waves with high frequencies to detect objects and measure distances
What is ultrasound?
CRISPR
What is clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats?
Enzyme that opens up DNA to allow for replication
What is helicase?
What is occipital lobe?
The point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots.
What is the fulcrum?
Medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing
What is stethoscope?
EEG
What is electroencephalogram?
Organ that stores bile in the body
What is gallbladder?
Thick nerve tissue connecting the left and right side of the brain
What is corpus callosum?
What is the SI unit for an electric field?
What is Tesla?
An image made using positron emission tomography, especially one of the brain.
What is PET scan?
IRB
What is Institutional Review Board?
Name the 3 meninges layers
What is dura mater, the arachnoid mater, and the pia mater?
Another name for efferent nuerons
The class of levers to which a nut cracker belongs
What is second class lever?
Medical device which is used to look into the ears
What is otoscope (or auriscope)?
CSF
What is cerebral spinal fluid?
Which terminus comes first when making a protein?
What is the N-terminus?