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The study of the structure of the body and its parts.

What is Anatomy?

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The study of how the body and its parts function

. What is Physiology?

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Chemical → Cellular → Tissue → Organ → Organ System → Organism

.What are the levels of organization from smallest to largest?

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The maintenance of a stable internal environment.

What is homeostasis?

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A cycle in which the body's response affects the original stimulus

. What is a feedback loop?

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A mechanism that reverses a change to maintain homeostasis

.What is negative feedback?

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A mechanism that amplifies a change until a specific event occurs

What is a positive feedback?

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Receptor, control center, Effector

. What are three parts of a feedback loop?

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Detect a change in the environment

. What does a receptor do in a feedback loop?

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Processes information and determines a response

. What does the control center do in a feedback loop?

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carries out the response directed by the control center

. what does an effector do in a feedback loop?

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water, food, oxygen, heat, and pressure

. what are the general requirements of organisms?

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The sum of all chemical reactions in the body

The sum of all chemical reactions in the body. what Is metabolism

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The process of obtaining oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide

. What is respiration?

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The ability to sense and react to change changes in the environment

. What is responsiveness?

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A change in position of the body or body parts

. what is movement?

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A increase in body size or number of cells

. what is growth?

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The process by which specialized cells become specialized

what is differentiation?

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The formation of new cells or a new organism

. what is reproduction?

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Fluid located inside sales

. What is intracellular fluid?

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Fluid located outside cells

.What is extracellular fluid?

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The head, neck, and trunk.

What is the axial portion of the body?

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The limbs and their attachments

. What is the appendicular portion of the body?

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Cranial, vertebral (spinal), thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities.

what are the major cavities of the axial body?

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The brain.

What is located in the cranial cavity?

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The spinal cord.

What is located in the vertebral cavity?

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The heart and lungs.

What is located in the thoracic cavity?

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A positively charged particle found in the nucleus

. what is a proton?

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A neutral particle zero charge found in the nucleus

. what is a neutron?

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A negatively charged particle that moves around the nucleus

. what is an electron?

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The number of protons in an atom

. what is the atomic number?

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The number of protons and neutrons in an atom

. what is the mass number?

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A positively charged ion

. what is a cation

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A negatively charged ion

. what is an anion

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Substances that conduct electricity when dissolved in water

. what are electrolytes?

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Compounds that contain both carbon and hydrogen

. What are organic compounds?

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Compounds that do not contain both carbon and hydrogen

. what are in organic compounds?

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Protons and neutrons

. what particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?

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The number of protons

. what determines the identity of an element?

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two electrons

. how many electrons can the first electron shell hold

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8 electrons

. how many electrons can the second electron shell hold?

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18 electrons

. how many electrons can a third electron shell hold?

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A bond formed when Atoms share electrons

. what is a covalent bond?

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A bond formed an electrons are transferred between atoms

. what is an ionic bond?

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A weak attraction between molecules or parts of molecules

. what is a hydrogen bond?

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valence electrons

. which electrons are involved in chemical bonding

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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen

. what four elements make up about 95% of the human body

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Energy

. what is the primary function of carbohydrates?

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Fat storage and energy storage

. what is the primary function of lipids?

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Building amino acids and carrying out cellular functions

. What is the primary function of proteins?

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storing genetic information, DNA and RNA

. what is the primary function of nucleic acids?

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DNA

. which nucleic acid replicates itself

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One carbon atom and two oxygen atoms

One carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. what does CO₂ represent?

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1

. how many carbon atoms are in CO₂

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2

how many oxygen atoms are in CO₂

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hydrogen ion H+ concentration

. what does pH measure?

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7

what is the pH of a neutral solution?

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less than 7

. what is the pH of an acid?

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Greater than 7

. what is the pH of a base?

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pH decreases

. what happens to the pH when the hydrogen ion H+ concentration increases

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pH increases

. what happens to pH when hydrogen ion OH concentration increases?

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about 30 to 37 trillion cells

. how many cells does the human body contain?

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plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus

what are the three main parts of a cell?.

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A phospholipid bilayer

. what is the plasma membrane made of?

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A flexible membrane with moving proteins

. what is the fluid Mosiac model?

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It allows some substances to pass through while blocking others

. what does selectively permeable mean?

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Channels, carriers, receptors, enzymes, and identity markers

. what are the functions of membrane proteins?

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Nucleus, nucleolus , Ribosomes, ER, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, Lysosomes, and centrioles

. what organelles are found in a cell

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DNA

. what does the nucleus contain?

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Ribosomes

. what does the nucleus produce?

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DNA and proteins found in the nucleus

. What is chromatin?

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simple, diffusion, facilitated, diffusion, active transport, osmosis, and filtration

. what are the main types of membrane transport?

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no size change occurs

. what happened to a cell in an isotonic solution?

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It swells

. what happens to a cell in a hypotonic solution?

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It shrinks

. what happens to a cell in a hypertonic solution?

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Pulls water across a membrane

. What does osmotic pressure do?

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pushes fluid

. what does hydrostatic pressure do?

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Cell eating

. what is phagocytosis?

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Interface, mitosis, cytokinesis

. What are the stages of the cell cycle?

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Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase

. what are the stages of mitosis?

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Two identical daughter cells

how many daughter sales are produced by mitosis

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Cells that can become specialized cells

. what are stem cells

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programmed cell death

. what is Apoptosis