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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What does gross anatomy involve?

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Things that can be seen with the naked eye

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What does comparative anatomy study?

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Bodies of more than one species

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What does histology observe?

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Tissues microscopically

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What does histopathology study?

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Tissues for signs of disease

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What does cytology study?

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Individual cells

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What is ultra structure?

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Fine detail of tissue

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What is physiology?

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The study of function

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What is the inductive method?

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Making numerous observations and drawing a generalization from them

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What is a scientific fact?

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Can be verified by a trained person

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What is a law of nature?

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A generalization about how matter behaves

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What is a theory?

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A statement derived from confirmed hypotheses

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What does evolution mean?

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The change in genetic composition in a population

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What is natural selection?

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The idea that some organisms have hereditary advantages

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What are selection pressures in natural selection?

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Climate and food and factors that can effect the likeliness to survive

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What are adaptations in natural selections?

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Features of an organism that have evolved

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What does bipedalism mean?

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Standing and waking on two legs

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What is an organism?

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A single, complete, individual

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What is an organ system?

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A group of organs with a collective function

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What is an organ structure?

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Composed of 2 or more tissue types that work together to carry out a specific function

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What is a tissue?

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A mass of similar cells that carries out a specific function

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What are cells?

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Smallest units of an organism that can carry out basic functions of life

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What are organelles?

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Structures within a cell that carry out functions

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What are molecules?

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2 or more atoms bonded together

23
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What are the smallest particles of matter that have unique chemical
Identities?

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Atoms

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What is metabolism?

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Sum of all internal chemical changes or breakdown reactions

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What is homeostasis?

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Ability to maintain stable internal conditions

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What is dynamic equilibrium?

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The internal state of the body

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What is negative feedback?

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Process in which the body senses a change and tries to reverse it

28
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What is a molecule, cell, or organ that directly carries out a response to a stimulus?

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Effector

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What is endocrinology?

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Study of hormones

30
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What is neurophysiology?

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Study of nervous system

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What is comparative physiology?

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Study of other animals

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What is pathophysiology?

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Mechanisms of disease

33
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What suffix means the study of?

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Ology

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