Bone Stuff
How many bones does a full-grown adult have?
206
What's the powerhouse of the cell?
Mitochondria
What is the top layer of the skin called?
The Epidermis or the stratum corneum
What is a nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose?
Deooxyribonucleic Acid
What would be more proximal to the head, your hand or your foot?
Your hand
What are your finger bones called?
phalangies
Where are the chromosomes located in the cell?
nucleus
What is the bottom layer of the epidermis called?
The stratum basale
What is the genetic information called inside a cell?
Chromosomes
What would be distal to the head, your hand or your foot?
your foot
What are the shock absorbers between your bones called?
Articular Cartilage, Meniscus, Intervertebral Disks
Why are mitochondria named the power-house of the cell?
Vitamin D
What is the single-stranded nucleic acid with only ribose called?
Ribonucleic Acid
Medial
What is making blood in the bones called?
hematopoiesis
What does the Golgi apparatus do?
They modify, package, and sort proteins and lipids from the ER(Endoplasmic Reticulum)
What are the three layers of the skin called?
epidermis, dermis, hypodermis
What's the decoding of an mRNA message into a polypeptide chain of amino acids (protein) from codons?
Translation
What would swooping your arms in an outward motion horizontally be called?
Lateral
What is the end of a long bone called?
epiphyses
How much ATP is produced during anaerobic respiration(without oxygen)?
Net: 2 ATP
Gross: 4 ATP
What's the fancy word for sweating?
Thermoregulation
What's the process when the nucleotide sequence of DNA is copied into a complementary sequence in mRNA? This takes place in the nucleus. (DNA into mRNA)
Transcription
Would the hamstring muscles be on the posterior part of the leg, or the anterior?
Posterior