Cells & Tissues
The control center of the cell is this organelle.
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What is the nucleus?
The process of breaking down molecules to release energy is called this.
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What is catabolism?
The largest organ of the human body is this.
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What is the skin?
These cells can develop into many different specialized cell types.
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What are stem cells?
A patient cannot move their arm after a nerve injury. The tissue type responsible for transmitting electrical signals is this.
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What is nervous tissue?
The four primary tissue types are these.
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What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue?
The primary fuel source for most cells is this molecule.
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What is glucose?
This organ filters blood and produces urine.
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What are the kidneys?
A cell that can only form a limited range of related cell types is called this.
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What is a multipotent stem cell?
A patient has low blood glucose regulation because pancreatic cells are damaged. Which organ function is impaired?
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What is endocrine regulation?
The basement membrane supports this tissue type.
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What is epithelial tissue?
ATP stores energy in these chemical bonds.
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What are phosphate bonds?
The stomach begins digestion of this type of nutrient using pepsin.
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What are proteins?
The ability of a cell to develop into different cell types is called this.
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What is potency?
A patient suffers a myocardial infarction. Heart muscle cells die due to loss of oxygen. Which tissue property is affected?
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What is contractility?
Microvilli increase this property of epithelial cells.
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What is surface area?
Anaerobic metabolism produces this substance in humans.
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What is lactate (lactic acid)?
The functional unit of the lung where gas exchange occurs is this.
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What are alveoli?
A liver cell and a neuron contain the same DNA but function differently because they have different patterns of this.
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What is gene expression?
A patient has a mutation preventing normal protein synthesis. Which organelle is affected?
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What are ribosomes?
Smooth endoplasmic reticulum is primarily involved in this process.
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What is lipid synthesis (or detoxification)?
This hormone primarily promotes glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis.
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What is insulin?
The adrenal gland produces this hormone involved in the stress response.
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What is cortisol?
The loss of normal control over cell differentiation can contribute to this disease.
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What is cancer?
A patient has reduced oxygen delivery after blood loss. Which cellular process is immediately affected?
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What is aerobic ATP production?