Which organelle is the sight of protein synthesis?
ribosomes
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Which organelle is a bundle of microtubules and aids in Mitosis?
centriole
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Where is most of the RNA found in the cell?
the nucleus
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How does glucose, a monosaccharide, enter a cell?
carrier proteins
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A white blood cell engulfs a bacterium. Is this phagocytosis or pinocytosis?
phagocytosis
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A white blood cell engulfs a bacterium. Is this passive or active?
active
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the study of the structure of the body
anatomy
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the study of the functioning of the human body
physiology
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Your nose is what to your lips but this in relation to your eyes?
superior and inferior
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Your ears are what in relation to your eyes?
lateral
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What is an organ?
a group of tissues working together
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What is histology?
study of tissues
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Without this enzyme, to breakdown acetylcholine, a muscle cell would stay contracted:
acetylcholinesterase
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What are major tasks of the muscular system?
posture, movement, and heat production
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What continues on to become tendon, which continues on to become the periosteum of the bone?
epimyeseium
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This loves calcium and causes a conformational change in Tropomyosin:
troponin
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What is better for fine movements, small or large motor neurons?
small motor neurons
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An individual muscle fiber contracts with equal force in response to each action potential. What is this called?
law of skeletal muscle contraction
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A stimulus that is strong enough to create one action potential, complete contraction of one motor unit is called what?
threshold stimulus
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A stimulus that is strong enough to create action potentials in all the motor neurons innervating a whole muscle is called what?
maximal stimulus
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A stimulus that is too small to create an action potential in a neuron and no contraction occurs is called what?
subthreshold stimulus
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What is the state of partial contraction in a muscle, even when the muscle is not being used (some of the motor units are recruited)?
muscle tone
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What is it called when muscles are stiff because there is not enough ATP?
rigor mortis
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Two muscles beside each other that do not contract at the same time are not:
part of the same motor unit
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If calcium ions are diffusing across the membrane of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, what is occuring?
muscle contraction
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If lactic acid is building up, what type of respiration is occuring?
anaerobic
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How much ATP is generated trough Glycolysis, CAC, and ETC?
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Where would you expect to find skeletal muscle tissue?
legs
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Where would you expect to find smooth muscle tissue?
organs
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Where would you expect to find cardiac muscle tissue?
heart
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What is the antagonist to the Biceps muscle?
triceps brachii
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What is a correct statement regarding a muscle's point(s) of origin?
it is connected to the most stationary bone
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What important tissue that extends from the inferior portion of the Xiphoid to the Symphysis Pubis?
linea alba
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What is a correct statement regarding a muscle's point(s) of insertion?
it is connected to the bone that moves the most
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How are muscles named?
by origin, insertion, size, shape, orientation of muscle fascicles, location, number of heads, and function
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If Sodium ions are rushing into the cell what is occuring?
depolarization
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What is the primary intracellular cation of the cells?
potassium
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What is the primary extracellular cation of the cells?
sodium
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When Potassium ions enter into the cell what and the cell becomes more negative, what is occuring?
hyperpolarization
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Collections of neuron cell bodies which are outside of the CNS
ganglia
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Action potentials are:
all or nothing
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The action of this component of the ANS is Increase in heart rate and strength of contraction, and elevation of blood pressure:
sympathetic nervous system
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What are the basic types of nervous system cells?
neurons and neuroglia
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The action of this component of the ANS regulates resting and nutrition-related functions such as digestion, defecation, and urination:
autonomic nervous system
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What is the primary neurotransmitter of the system that increases heart rate and strength, raises blood pressure?
epinephrine
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These cells without cilia produce cerebrospinal fluid, to keep homogeneous:
non-ciliated ependymal cells
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What is the primary neurotransmitter of the system that regulates resting/nutrition related functions such as digestion, defecation, and urination?
Ach
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How many pairs of cranial nerves originate from the brain?
12
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Intensity of a feeling depends not on the size of the action potential, but on the ______ of action potentials.
frequency
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Which nerves originate from the spinal cord?
spinal nerves
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Which neurons transmit action potentials from sensory organs to CNS?
afferent neurons
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Which system transmits action potentials from CNS to skeletal muscles?
somatic nervous system
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Which neurons conducts action potentials from one neuron to another within CNS?
association neurons
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Neuroglia that secrete cerebrospinal fluid:
ependymal cells
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Neuroglia that form the blood-brain barrier:
astrocytes
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Shiny wrapping that covers a nerve fascicle:
perineurium
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Muscles and neurons have this because they can create an action potential in response to a stimulus:
excitability
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Neuron arrangement so that many neurons lead to 1 neuron (output)
convergent pathway
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An action potential travels along an axon by skipping from node of Ranvier to node of Ranvier. What is this kind of conduction called?
saltatory conduction
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At a synapse, the release of neurotransmitters results in an opening of potassium channels at the postsynaptic membrane. What type of synapse is this?
inhibitory synapse
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A signal originates in one receptor and ends up creating action potentials in many different places in the CNS and PNS. What kind of neuron arrangement did it pass through?
divergent
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collections of nerve cell bodies and their neuroglia
gray matter
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bundles of parallel axons and their sheaths
white matter
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crossing over of impulses
decussation
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major area of decussation
medulla oblongata
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What is it called when a blood clot cuts off blood supply to part of the brain?
ischemic stroke
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lack of oxygen to the brain
hypoxia
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hills in the cerebrum
gyri
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allows the right and left hemisphere to communicate with each other
corpus callosum
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part of brain that regulates body temperature and controls the pituitary gland
hypothalamus
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open areas in the brain that have cerebrospinal fluid
ventricles
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What three parts of the brain make up the brainstem?
pons, medulla oblongata, midbrain
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what two parts of the brain make up the diencephalon?
hypothalmus and thalamus
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grooves into cerebrum
sulci
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what part of the brain controls subconscious motor function, equilibrium, and muscle contraction sequencing?
thalamus
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What lobe of the cerebrum deals mostly with concentration, judgement, emotional expression?
frontal
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what does the occipital lobe do?
sight
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Which of the meninges is the "tough" outer covering?
dura mater
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What is the fluid called that bathes the spinal cord and brain?
CSF/cerebrospinal fluid
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Which ventricle continues on to become the central canal of the spinal colomn?
4th
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Which of the meninges has blood vessels running through it?
arachnoid mater
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What area of the brain is primarily responsible for Parkinson's?
substantia nigra
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
higher thinking, reasoning, and creativity
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What is Wernike's Area responsible for?
language comprehension
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What is Broca's area responsible for?
motor production of speech
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Collections of neuron cell bodies which are outside of the CNS:
ganglia
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Where would you find stratified squamous in the human body?
skin, epidermis
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Where would you find simple squamous in the human body?
lungs
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Where would you find transitional tissue in the human body?
bladder
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Where would you find simple cuboidal tissue in the human body?
kidney
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Where would find dense regular connective tissue in the human body?
tendons
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What is the name for a mature cartilage cell?
chondrocyte
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What is the function of transitional tissue?
stretches
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Where would you find simple columnar tissue in the human body?
stomach
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What is the function of simple squamous tissue?
diffusion
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What is the function of simple cuboidal tissue?
secretion and absorption
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What is the function of stratified squamous tissue?
strength and protection
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What is the function of simple columnar tissue?
forms a barrier to water, pathogens, and UV radiation
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Where would you find pseudostratified columnar tissue in the human body?