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1
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What are the three forms of matter?

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Solid, liquid , gas (chemical elements)

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What are the four chemical elements that make up the majority of the body?

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O - oxygen, H - hydrogen, C - carbon, N - nitrogen

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3
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What do trace mineral deficiencies cause?

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Goitres, spina bifida

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What / how much of chemicals are in the body?

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Oxygen - 61%, carbon - 23%, hydrogen - 10%, nitrogen 2.6%, calcium - 1.4%, phosphorus - 1.1%, others 1%

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Acid

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HCl

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Base

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KOH

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7
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Salt

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KCl

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8
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Increasingly acidic

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0 - 7 pH

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9
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Neutral

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7 pH

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10
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Increasingly basic (alkaline)

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7 - 14 pH

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11
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How does the body make use of pH?

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Differences can be protective, it kills bacteria.
Can help breakdown food, it denatures proteins into unusable substances

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12
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Sources of acid in our body

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Stomach, carbonic acid, acid ketones, uric acid, lactic acid

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13
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Stomach

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Acid is produced in our parietal cells

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14
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Carbonic acid

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Produced from CO2

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15
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Acid ketones

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Produced when fat is metabolized

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16
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Uric acid

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Produced by protein metabolism

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17
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Lactic acid

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Produced during anaerobic activity

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18
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What can change our bodies pH to make things more acidic?

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Building up lactic acid, keto-acids, ingesting acids - ASA (metabolic)
Building up carbonic acid (respiratory)

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19
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What can change our bodies pH to make it more alkaline?

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Ridding our body of CO2 (hyperventilation), ingesting antacids (tums, proton pumps inhibitors/H2 blockers)

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20
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How can you dilute the bloodstream?

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Increasing our fluid intake

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21
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Cell

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Smallest living unit (0.1mm in diameter)

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22
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Cell theory

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Building blocks of all plants and animals, all new cells come from division of preexisting cells

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23
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What is each cell surrounded by?

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Plasma membrane

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24
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What are the parts of the plasma membrane?

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Cytoplasm, organelles (membranous, nonmembranous), cytosol

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25
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Cytoplasm

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Found between cell membrane and nuclear membrane; varying consistency

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26
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Cytosol

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Intracellular fluid, fluid part of the cytoplasm

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27
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Membranous organelles

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Have phospholipid membrane around them

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28
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Nonmembranous organelles

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Not completely enclosed by membranes

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29
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What makes something living?

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Response to stimuli, reproduction, reproduction, respiration or metabolism, anabolism (growth/repair), transport, excretion

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30
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Metabolism

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The sum of all the chemical processes in the body

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31
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Responsiveness

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Body can detect and respond to changes

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32
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Growth

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Increase in body size

33
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Differentiation

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A development from an immature to mature state or unspecialized to specialized state

34
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Reproduction

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The formation of new cells or a new organism

35
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Basic function of nucleas

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Genetic information, assembly of ribosome subunits, structural support

36
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Basic function of Ribosomes

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Protein synthesis

37
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Basic function of endomembrane system

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Protein synthesis and processing

38
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Basic function of Mitochondria

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ATP (energy) production

39
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Body fluid distribution

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Intracellular - 28L, extracellular - 14L, blood cells - 2L, plasma - 3L

40
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Total body mass in female

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45% - solids, 55% fluids

41
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Total body mass of males

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40% - solids, 60% - fluids

42
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Membrane permeability

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Determines what can leave and enter cytoplasm

43
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Freely permeable

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Any substance can enter and exit

44
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Selectively permeable

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Allows some to enter/exit, prevents some from entering/exiting

45
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Impermeable

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No substances can enter or exit

46
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Mechanisms of movement

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Permeability is based on size, electrical charge, molecular shape, and lipid solubility. Materials move into and out of cell by passive and active mechanisms

47
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Passive mechanisms

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Requires no ATP; diffusion, carrier-mediated transport

48
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Active mechanisms

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Require ATP; carrier-mediated transport, vesicular transport

49
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Diffusion

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Process of even distribution from random motion

50
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Gradient

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Uneven distribution produces concentration difference

51
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How does an ion or molecule diffuse across the plasma membrane?

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Crossing lipid portion of membrane, passing through membrane channel

52
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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water

53
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Osmolarity

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The water attracting property of a solution that can be measured and is related to the concentration of dissolved particles in a solution

54
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What is the approximate osmotic pressure of the body?

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300 mosmol/L

55
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What biologically active particles have an osmotic influence?

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Proteins, glucose, electrolytes

56
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Active transport (carrier-mediated transport)

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Movement against concentration gradient using carrier proteins.
Requires energy (ATP)

57
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Vesicle formation (endocytosis)

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Pinocytosis, receptor-mediated endocytosis, phagocytosis

58
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Pinocytosis

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Brings fluid and small molecules into cell

59
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Receptor-mediated endocytosis

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Brings specific molecules into cell using receptor molecules on membrane

60
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Phagocytosis

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Brings solid particles into cell

61
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Exocytosis

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Moves wastes and secretory products from Intracellular vesicle to outside the cell

62
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DNA

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In the nucleus, stores instructions for protein synthesis
Coil around histones

63
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Chromatin

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In non-dividing cells, DNA is loosely coiled forming thin filaments

64
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What happens at the beginning of cell division?

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DNA coils tighten and become more complex and form distinct structures called chromosomes

65
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Centromere

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The point at which copied chromosomes are held together

66
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Chromatid

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Duplicated chromosomes

67
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How many pairs of chromosomes do somatic cells (body cells) have?

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23 pairs

68
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In which cells do you expect the numbers of mitochondria to be greatest?

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Muscle cells, skeletal, cardiac, liver

69
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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death

70
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Tumour

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A mass produced by abnormal cell growth and division

71
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Benign tumor

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Cells remain in one place; not cancerous

72
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Malignant tumor

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Cells divid rapidly; produce chemicals stimulating blood vessel growth

73
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Metastasis

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Process in which a tumor grows and cells migrate to other areas and establish new tumors

74
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What are the 4 types of body tissues?

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Epithelial, connective, muscle, neural

75
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Epithelial tissue

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Covers exposed body surface, lines digestive/respiratory/reproductive/urinary tracts, surrounds internal cavities

76
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Connective tissue

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Purpose is to connect and attach tissues, can be solid or liquid (tendon or blood), contains specialized cells and extracellular matrix

77
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Extracellular matrix

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Composed of protein fibres and ground substance, varying consistency (blood - watery matrix, bone - solid matrix)

78
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Muscle tissue

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composed of cells that have the special ability to shorten or contract in order to produce movement of the body parts

79
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Neural tissue

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contains two major cell types, neurons and glial cells

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