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What is the hydrophilic head?

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Water loving and polar

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What is the hydrophobic tail?

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Water hating and non polar

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Plasma membranes can also be called

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Cell membranes and they cover every cell, including most organelles

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Purpose of the skeleton-5

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  1. Form the body
  2. protect the organs
  3. Structure
  4. Movement
  5. Posture
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Functions of the skeleton 5

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  • support
  • protection
  • movement
  • blood production
  • storage
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what bones make up the head and trunk of the body?

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The axial skeleton

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What consists of limbs that support the trunk (appendage bones)

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The appendicular skeleton

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Fibrous joints

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joints fixed by fibrous connective tissue that allows no movement

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Cartilaginous joint

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joints held together cartilage and allows slight movement

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Synovial joint

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joints that allow a wide range of movement

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Hyaline cartilage

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Reduces friction and acts as a shock absorber

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Ligament

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Joins bone to bone and stabilizes the joint

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synovial membrane

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Produces synovial fluid

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Fibrous joint capsule

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an envelope around the synovial joint offering protection

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Tendon

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Joins muscle to the bones and enables movement

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Synovial fluid

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Lubricates the joint and provides nutrition for the hyaline cartilage

17
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Flexion

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Reduces the angle between two bones

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Extension

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Increases the angle between two bones

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abduction

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Moves away from the body

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adduction

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moves back toward the body

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Rotation

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Joint can twist on its own axis

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Gliding

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Surface of the joint slides over one another

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Protraction

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Movement of the limb forward away from the body

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Retraction

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Movement of the limb towards the body

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Cartilage

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A specialized connective tissue which is rigid but flexible and resilient

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Ligament

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A short band of tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue

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Tendons

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they are connective tissues that transmit the mechanical force of muscle contraction to the bone