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- Recieves all sensory processing except olfactory
- Important in memory and emotion
- Doesnt store memory
- Below the corpus callosum
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- Also recieves sensory processing
- Maintains homeostasis
- hunger, sleep, thirst, body temperature, and water balance
- Communicates with the pituitary gland
- a linkbetween the nervous system and endocrine system
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- the gap between neuron cells
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- used to relay, amplify, and modulate signals between a neuron and another cell
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- a neural pathway that mediates a reflex action
- some synapse in the spinal cord
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- A part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system, maintaining homeostasis in the body.
- These maintenance activities are primarily performed without conscious control or sensation.
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- hange in the plus/minus charge inside and outside the cell.
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- the membrane potential that would be maintained even if there were no action potentials, synaptic potentials, ot other active changes in the membrane potential.
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- an enzyme located in the cell membrane.
- it is found in the cell membrane of virtually every human cell and is common to cellular life
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- A mutually beneficial relationship in which one organism lives inside the other
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- Normal firmness or functional readiness in body tissues or organs.
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- Shrinkage or contraction of the cytoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by the loss of water through osmosis.
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- the pressure of the cell contents against the cell wall.
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- a process of diffusion, a form of passive transport, where molecules diffuse across membranes, with the assisstance of transport proteins.
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- the movement of a chemical substance throug h a gradient of concentration or electical potential in the direction opposite to normal diffusion, requiring the use of energy.
- LO to HI
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- the first stage of photosynthesis, occuring only in the presence of light, during which energy captured from light drives the production of ATP.
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- A chemical reaction occuring through an intervening semipermeable membrane.
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Light independent Reaction
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- the second stage of photosynthesis, not requiring light to occur, and during which energy released from ATP drives the production of organic molecules from carbon dioxide.
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- a series of biochemical reactions that takes place in the stroma of chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms.
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- Any of two or more substances that are composed of the same elements in the same proportions but differ in properties because of differences in the arrangements of atoms.
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- A bitter fluid that is secreted by the liver stored in the gall bladder that aids in the emulsification, digestion, and absorption of fats.
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- Breaking down substances in order to make more surface area for absorption.
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- An enzyme that hydrolyses fats to glycerol and fatty acids.
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- The series of metabolic processes by which living cells produce energy through the oxidation of organic substances.
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- Themetabolic precess that uses oxygen to break down food and release energy.
- The energy is uesd to make ATP.
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- the oxidation of molecules in the absense of oxygen to produce energy.
- Requires another electron acceptor to replace oxygen.
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- An ATP generating metabolic process that occurs in nearly all livcing cellsin which glucose is converted in a series of steps to pyruvic acid.
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- A process of energy production in a cell under anaerobic conditions.
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- A series of enzymatic reactions in anaerobic organisms incvolving oxidative matabolism of acetylunits and producing high-energy phosphate molecule, whichserves as the main source of cellular energy.
- Also called the Citric acid cycle.
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