Chapter 1 Major Themes

Question 1

Anatomy is the study of what

Answer 1

Structure

Question 2

Physiology is the study of what

Answer 2

Function

Question 3

Simply looking at the body’s appearance

Answer 3

Inspection

Question 4

Feeling the structure with your hands

Answer 4

Palpation

Question 5

Listening to the natural sounds made by the body

Answer 5

Percussion

Question 6

A dead human body

Answer 6

Cadaver

Question 7

Opening the body and taking a look inside to see what was wrong and what could be done about it

Answer 7

Exploratory surgery

Question 8

Methods of viewing the inside of the body without surgery

Answer 8

Medical imaging

Question 9

Structure that can be seen with the naked eye

Answer 9

Gross anatomy

Question 10

The “father of medicine”

Answer 10

Hippocrates

Question 11

One of the first philosophers to write about anatomy and physiology

Answer 11

Aristotle

Question 12

Process of making numerous observations until one feels confident in drawing generalizations and predictions from them

Answer 12

Inductive method

Question 13

An explanatory statement or set of statements derived from facts, laws, and confirmed hypotheses

Answer 13

Theory

Question 14

An explanation of how species originate and change through time

Answer 14

Natural selection

Question 15

A single complete individual

Answer 15

Organism

Question 16

A group of organs with a unique collective function

Answer 16

Organ system

Question 17

A structure composed of two or more tissue types that work together to carry out a particular function

Answer 17

Organ

Question 18

What is the body’s largest organ

Answer 18

Skin

Question 19

A mass of similar cells and cell products that forms a discrete region of an organ and performs a specific function

Answer 19

Tissue

Question 20

What are the smallest units of an organism that carry out all the basic functions of life

Answer 20

Cells

Question 21

Microscopic structures in a cell that carry out its individual functions

Answer 21

Organelles

Question 22

Organelles and other cellular compounds are composed of what

Answer 22

Molecules

Question 23

A molecule is a particle composed of how many atoms

Answer 23

At least 2

Question 24

The sum of all chemical reactions in the body

Answer 24

Metabolism

Question 25

Relatively complex molecules are synthesized from simpler ones

Answer 25

Anabolism

Question 26

Relatively complex molecules are broken down into simpler ones

Answer 26

Catabolism

Question 27

Although the environment around an organism changes the organism maintains relatively stable internal conditions

Answer 27

Homeostasis

Question 28

The transformation of cells with no specialized functions into cells that are committed to a particular task

Answer 28

Differentation

Question 29

Internal state of the body

Answer 29

Dynamic equilibrium

Question 30

Process in which the body senses a change and activates mechanisms that negate or reserve it

Answer 30

Negative feedback

Question 31

The widening of blood vessels

Answer 31

Vasodilation

Question 32

A narrowing of blood vessels

Answer 32

Vasoconstriction

Question 33

A self-amplifying cycle in which a physiological change leads to even greater Change in the same direction

Answer 33

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