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| Smallest units of matter that participate in chemical reactions |
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| Two or more atoms joined together |
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| The basic structural and functional units of an organism that are composed of chemicals and are the smallest living unit in the human body |
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| Groups of cells and the materials surrounding them that work together to perform a particular function |
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1. Epithelial
2. Connective
3. Muscular
4. Nervous |
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| Covers body surface, lines hollow organs and cavities, and form glands |
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| Connects, supports, and protects body organs while distributing blood vessels to other tissues |
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| Contracts to make body parts move and generate |
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| Caries information from one part of the body to another through Nerve impulses |
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| Structures that are composed of two or more different types of tissues |
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Consist of related organs with a common function
Example: organ system level is the digestion system which break down and absorbs food |
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| Levels of structural organization |
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1. Chemical level
2. Cellular level
3. Tissue level of organization
4. Organ level
5. System level
6. Organism level |
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1. Metabolism
2. Responsiveness
3. Growth
4. Differentiation
5. Movement |
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| Metabolism (basic life process) |
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| Is the sum of all the chemical processes that occur in the body |
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| (a phase of metabolism) The breakdown of complex chemical substances inti simpler components |
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| (phase of metabolism) the building up of complex chemical substances from smaller, simpler components |
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| Responsiveness (Basic life process) |
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| The body's ability to detect and respond to changes |
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| Movement (basic life process) |
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| Movement of the whole body, individual organs, single cells, and even tiny structures inside cells |
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| Growth (basic life process) |
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| An increase in body cells that results from an increase in the size of existing cells, an increase in the number of cells, or both |
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| Differentiate (basic life process) |
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| Is the development of a cell from an unspecialized to a specialized state |
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| Reproduction(basic life process) |
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| Formation of new cells for tissue growth, repair, or replacement, or the production of a new individual |
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| Is the condition of equilibrium in the body's internal environmental due to the costant interaction of the body's many regulatory processes |
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| A cycle of events in which the status of a body condition is monitored, evaluated, changed,remonitored, reevaluated, and so on |
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| 3 basic components of a feedback system |
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1. Receptor
2. Control center
3. Effector |
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| Receptor (feedback system) |
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| Is a body structure thatbmonitors changes in a controlled condition and send input to a control center. |
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| Control center (feedback system) |
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| Receive the input and provide. Evaluate the input it receives from receptors, and generates output commands when they are needed |
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| Is a body structure that receives output from the control center and produces a response or effect that changes the controlled condition |
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| Negative feedback sysytem |
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| Reverses a change in a controlled condition |
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| Strengthens or reinforce a change in one of the body's controlled conditions |
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| Imaginary surfaces that pass through the body part |
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| A vertical plane that divides the body or an organ into right and left sides |
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| An imaginary vertical line that divides the body into equal left and right sides |
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| Divides the body or an organ into anterior and posterior portions |
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| Divides the body or organs into superior(upper) and inferior (lower) portions |
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1. Frontal coronal
2. Sagital
3. Transverse
4. Oblique |
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1. Anterior (in front)
2. Posterior (in back)
3. Medial and Lateral
4. Ipsilateral- inside
5. Control lateral- opposite |
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| Spaces within the body that help protect, separate, and support organs |
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| Refers to techniques and procedures used to create images of the human body |
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| A single barrage of x-rays passes through the body, producing an image of interior structures on x-ray-sensitive film |
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| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
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| Show fine detail for soft tissues but not bones and cannot be used on patients with metal in their body |
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| Visualize soft tissues and organs with much more detail than conventional radiographs |
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