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What is the correct sequence of levels forming the structural hierarchy?
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| Chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, organ system, organismal. |
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| The structural and functional unit of life is ____. |
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| What are the major functional characteristic of all organisms? |
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| Movement, growth, metabolism, responsiveness. |
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| What are the two organ systems that ensure homeostasis? |
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| Nervous and endocrine system. |
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Dorsal or ventral?
a. Surrounded by the bony skull and the vertebral column
b. includes the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities
c. contains the brain and spinal cord
d. located more anteriorly
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a. dorsal
b. ventral
c. dorsal
d. ventral
e. ventral |
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Which comparison is incorrect?
a. visceral peritoneum/outer surface of small intestine
b. parietal pleura/wall of thoracic cavity
c. parietal pericardium/outer surface of heart |
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| Which ventral cavity has no bony protection? |
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| The smallest unit capable of life is ___. |
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| The most abundant types of lipid found in the plasma membranes are (2)... |
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| Phospholipids and cholesterol. |
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| What are membrane junctions that allow nurtients or ions to flow from cell to cell? |
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| The increase in urination for a drunken man reflects what? |
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| The type of solution in which cells will lose water to their environment is ______. |
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1. Differentially permeable membrane
2. difference in solvent concentration
3. Diffusion |
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| Solute-pumping variety of active transport is accomplished by |
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| conformational/positional changes in carrier molecules in the plasma membrane. |
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| what is the endocytotic process in which particulate matter is engulfed and brought into the cell? |
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| The nuclear substance composed of histone proteins and DNA is... |
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| The information sequence that determines tthe nature of a protein is called... |
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| Mutations can be caused by... |
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| X-rays, certain chemicals, and radiation from ionizing radioisotopes. |
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| The phase of mitosis during which centrioles reach thepoles and chromosomes attach to the spindle is... |
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| The RNA synthesized on one of the DNA strands is...(3) |
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| The RNA species that carries the coded message is... |
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| A nerve cell and a lymphocyte are presumed to differ in... |
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| Specialized structure and suppressed genes and embryonic history. |
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| Tissue type composed largely of nonliving intercellular matrix; important in protection and support. |
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| The tissue immediately responsible for body movement... |
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| The tissue that allos us to be aware of the external environment and to react to it; specialized for communication. |
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| The tissue that lines body cavities and cover surfaces. |
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| An epithelium that has several layers, with a layer of flattened cells most superficial, is called (2) |
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| Lines most of the digestive tract |
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| Lines much of the respiratory tract |
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| Pseudostratified ciliated columnar |
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| Forms the walls of the air sacs of the lungs |
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| Foundin urinary tract organs |
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| The gland type that secretes products such as milk, saliva, bile, or sweat through a duct is... |
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| The membranous lining of the body cavities open to the exterior is... |
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| Which of the epidermal cell types is most numerous? |
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| What is probably a macrophage? |
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| Cells often called prickle cells |
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| Cells are literally flate plates of Keratin |
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| Together form the stratum germinativum and are mitotic viable cells |
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| Stratum spinosum and stratum basale |
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| Barrier nature of epidermis due to... |
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| Skin color is determined by... |
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| amount of blood, pigments, oxygenation level of the blood. |
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| sensations of touch and pressure are picked up by receptors located in the... |
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| Site of hematopoiesis includes... |
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| medullary cavities in bones of a healthy adult |
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| The organic portion of matrix is important in providing all but |
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| The flat bones of skull develop from |
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| a fibrous connective tissue membrane |
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| The remodeling of bone is a function of which of these cells? |
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| osteoblasts and osteoclasts |
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| Bone growth during chilhood and in adults is regulated and directed by... |
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| growth hormones, thyroxine, sex hormones, and mechanical stress |
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| Wolff's law is concerned with... |
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| the thickness and shape of a bone being determined by mechanical and gravitational stresses placed on it. |
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| Formation of the bony callus in fracture repair is followed by... |
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| bone remodeling to convert wocen bone to compact bone. |
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| A fracture in which the bone end penetrate soft tissue is... |
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| The disorder in which bones are porous and thin but bone composition is normal is |
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