Cell
Makes proteins
What are ribosomes?
There are 4 major types of tissue
What is epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissues?
Two types of bone tissue
What is compact and spongy bone?
The 3 types of muscle tissue
What is skeletal, smooth, and cardiac tissue?
Single long fibers that send information away
What are axons?
Contains DNA in the form of chromatin and directs cell activities.
What is the nucleus?
This muscle tissue is voluntary and striated (remember: the type are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac)
What is the skeletal tissue?
The process of creating bone as a means of turning hyaline cartilage into a bone
What is ossification
Bundles of fibers
What are fascicles?
Junction between 2 communicating neurons
What is the synapse?
Look like 2 cylinders and form a spindle in cell division.
What are centrosomes?
Sends messages to other cells
What are axons?
Creates osteocytes (bone cells)
Osteoblasts
The muscle movement that decreases the angle between 2 bones
What is flexion?
Neuroglial cells that kill bacteria and digest debris
What are microglial cells?
The phase of mitosis where chromatids separate and move to opposite poles
What is anaphase?
3 categories of connective tissue
What is loose, adipose, and fibrous connective tissue?
The largest bone of the heel bone
What is the calcaneus?
Neurotransmitter used to cause muscle contraction
What is acetylcholine?
Allows for impulses to travel quickly down the nerve cell and insulate axons
What are myelin sheaths
Programmed cell death
What is apoptosis?
Something missing in people with epidermolysis bullosa
What is collagen?
The type of diarthrotic joints, which are movable joints
What is ball & socket, hinge, pivot, and saddle?
Myosin and actin interact with each other
What is the change in shape for myosin to form cross-bridges?
Lobe of the brain that functions for balance, muscle memory, and coordination
What is the cerebellum?