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What is the hydrophilic head?
Water loving and polar
What is the hydrophobic tail?
Water hating and non polar
Plasma membranes can also be called
Cell membranes and they cover every cell, including most organelles
Purpose of the skeleton-5
- Form the body
- protect the organs
- Structure
- Movement
- Posture
Functions of the skeleton 5
- support
- protection
- movement
- blood production
- storage
what bones make up the head and trunk of the body?
The axial skeleton
What consists of limbs that support the trunk (appendage bones)
The appendicular skeleton
Fibrous joints
joints fixed by fibrous connective tissue that allows no movement
Cartilaginous joint
joints held together cartilage and allows slight movement
Synovial joint
joints that allow a wide range of movement
Hyaline cartilage
Reduces friction and acts as a shock absorber
Ligament
Joins bone to bone and stabilizes the joint
synovial membrane
Produces synovial fluid
Fibrous joint capsule
an envelope around the synovial joint offering protection
Tendon
Joins muscle to the bones and enables movement