What is oxygen (3 minutes), water (3 days), food (3 weeks).
100
Types of proteins that initiate or speed up
chemical reactions by either breaking down or putting
molecules together.
What are enzymes?
100
Professionals who care for patients who have trouble breathing—for example, from a chronic respiratory disease, such as asthma or emphysema.
What is a respiratory therapist?
100
The filtering and excretory unit of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and tubules.
What is the nephron?
100
The maintenance of relatively stable internal physiological conditions (as body temperature or the pH of blood) in higher animals under fluctuating environmental conditions.
What is homeostasis?
200
When a process in the body requires energy, _____ is broken down to
liberate energy stored in its chemical bonds.
What is ATP?
200
Model where both the enzyme and the substrate possess specific complementary geometric shapes that fit exactly into
one another.
What is the Lock and Key Model?
200
A person's maximum speed of expiration.
What is Peak flow?
200
The blood is filtered first in the ____ and ________ of the nephron.
What is the glomerulus and Bowman's capsule?
200
A natural feature or phenomenon that enhances the quality of human
life.
What is a resource?
300
The amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment.
What is BMR?
300
Model that suggests that the active site continues to change until the substrate is completely bound to it, at which point the final shape and charge is determined.
What is the Induced Fit Model?
300
A test that measures how fast a person can exhale (breathe out).
What is PEFR?
300
The loss of a water molecule from reacting molecules.
What is dehydration synthesis?
300
The totality of an organism’s chemical reactions, consisting of catabolic and anabolic pathways.
What is metabolism?
400
A value derived from the mass and height of an individual ( body mass divided by the square of the body height).
What is BMI?
400
A condition in which your airways narrow and swell and produce extra mucus.
What is asthma?
400
The breakdown of molecules in which water is added to complete bonds.
What is hydrolysis?
400
A substance acted upon by an enzyme.
What is a substrate?
500
The amount of calories that your body will burn in a 24-hour period. It factors in your sleep, work, exercise, and normal daily activity.
What is TDEE?
500
Any of the many tiny air sacs in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place at the ends of each bronchiole.
What is Alveoli?
500
Kidney tissues shaped like cones that consist of tubules to transport urine to the calyces and then on to the ureter.
What are renal pyramids?
500
Small, finger-like projections that protrude from the epithelial lining of the small intestine's walls that help in absorbing nutrients.