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| Movement of food through the intestines |
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| Breaks down maltose to glucose |
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| High levels of bilirubin in the blood stream |
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| brownish yellow substance that is produced when the liver breaks down old red blood cells |
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| reactions that produce heat |
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| Pressure is inversely proportional to the volume of gas (p1v1=p2v2) |
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| Flow of one coulomb per second |
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| 2 bones found between the knee and ankle in humans |
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| Designed to measure current |
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| Process that organs use to repair themselves |
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| affects surface tension of alveoli in the lungs; aids in breathing properly |
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| secretion, reabsorption, filtration |
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| functional unit of a kidney |
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| an object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid by the object |
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| high frequency sound waves |
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| Blood enters the lung from this heart chamber |
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| Hemoglobin molecule can hold how many molecules of oxygen in the blood? |
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| Heart chamber that pumps blood to the systemic circulation |
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| Simple plants with few specialized organs and tissues; lacks xylem and retains flegellated sperm cells; Mosses |
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| Water-conducting woody material |
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| Primitive bryophytes where the gametophyte has a filamentous protanema |
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| Angiosperms and gymnosperms are in what division? |
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| Covered seeds; maple and banana trees |
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| Naked seeds; pines and firs |
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| What affect does oxidized copper have on blood? |
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| Would give it a bluish appearance |
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| bending of a joint to an acute angle |
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| portion of muscle attached to bone that moves during contraction |
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| continuous state of muscle contraction |
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| period of relaxation of cardia muscles |
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| straightening of bones at joint |
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| liquid part of blood containing dissolved wastes, proteins, hormones, and fibrinogen |
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| anucleated, biconcave discs filled w/hemoglobin, which unites blood to form oxyhemoglobin |
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| breaks down co plex carbs into disaccharides |
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| Hormone secreted by the stomach wall of mammals when food makes contact with the wall |
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| secreted by the small intestine and stimulates pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice containing bicarbonate ions to buffer chyme |
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| What are the cofactors of thromboplastin? |
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| converts fibrinogen into the fibrinous protein, fibrin. |
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| Platelets release thromboplastin--Thromboplastin converts prothrombin to thrombin--Thrombin converts fibrinogen to fibrin--Fibrin traps red blood cells |
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| stinging cells found in coelenterates and used to immobilize prey |
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| Organisms that have no defined tissue or organs |
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| One-celled organisms such as paramecia and amoebae |
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| segmented invertebrates with a true body cavity (coelem) having two openings in their digestive tract; earthworms |
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| Organisms such as starfish and sea cucumbers thought to be a primitive predecessor to vertebrates |
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| Describe the symmetry, circulatory system, and movement of starfish |
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| Radially symmetrical as adults, bilaterally symmetrical as larvae; circulatory system is made up of a water vascular system; move via tube feet |
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| Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (four criteria) |
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| random mating, a large population, no migration into or out of the population, a lack of mutation |
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| Acts as a buffer to maintain the pH of the blood |
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| What does bicarbonate transport to lungs and for what reason? |
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| Bicarbonate transports CO2 from tissues to lungs for exhalation |
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| Where does a heartbeat began? |
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| Where is the SA node located? |
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| Wall of the right atrium where the vena cava enters and travels through the atria |
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| Foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus |
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| Structures in the fetal heart that ensure that blood is shunted away from the fetus's developing lungs |
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| cranial nerve that regulates the heartbeat due to signals from the parasympathetic nervous system |
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| What monitors the increase in serum CO2? |
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| The breathing center in the medulla oblongota |
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| What monitors a decrease in O2? |
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| Chemoreceptors in the carotid bodies in the carotid arteries and aortic bodies in the aorta |
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