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Physiology

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The city of normal function of living organisms and component parts that include chemical and physical processes

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Emergent properties

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Unpredictable patterns within the knowledge of the individual systems

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Ome

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The Latin word for mass or tumor. 

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Circulatory includes?

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Heart, blood vessels, blood

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Digestive includes?

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Stomach, and testing, liver, pancreas

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Endocrine includes

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Thyroid and adrenal gland

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Integumentary includes?

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Skin

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Immune includes?

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Thymus, spleen, lymph nodes

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Musko skeletal includes?

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Skeletal muscles, bone

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Nervous includes?

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Brain, spinal cord

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Reproductive includes?

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Ovaries and uterus, testes

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Respiratory includes

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lungs, airways

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Urinary includes

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Kidneys, bladder 

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Telelogical approach?

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To answer why some thing needs some thing or their function

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Mechanistic approach

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To answer how something works in the system 

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What are 4 Themes

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  1. Structure and function are closely related, 1. living organisms need energy, 3. information, flow, coordinates, body functions, 4. homeostasis, maintains internal stability 
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Pathophysiology

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The study of body functions in a disease state 

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Diabetes Melli tus

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A metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally high blood glucose concentrations 

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Extracellular fluid

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The transition between an organisms, external environment, and the internal environment of a cell or the intracellular fluid . Such as blood plasma, interstitial fluid and cerebral spinal fluid

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Intracellular fluid

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The fluid inside of the extra cellular fluid

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Law of mass balance

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The amounts of a substance in the body is your mean constant any gain must be offset by equal loss 

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Physiology

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The field of biology of how scientist study as a body Works

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Intracelular fluid

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The body has millions of trillions of cells that work together. The cells need to transports and receive materials between their internal and X in environments.

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Extracellular fluid

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The external compartment of a outer cell

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Homeostasis

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The bodies ability to keep a steady state either from internal or external factors

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Equilibrium

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When the molecular composition, Cellular compartments, have two, compartments, identical

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Disequilibrium

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When each compartments that is adjacent to another, is very difference in concentration of molecules or ion

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Pathophysiology

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The study of diseases in body functions

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Mechanistic

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The how process. Science story telling

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Teleological

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The why, who needs it, why is it needed description of parts

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Neutron

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Subatomic particles with no charge

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Proton

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Subatomic particle with a positive charge

33
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Altering the # of ___ in a atom will either create a positive or negative charge atom

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Electrons

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Atomic mass

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On the periodic table, The ___ indicates the # of protons plus the # of neutrons(bottom # on periodic table)

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On the periodic table the ,___ describes the # of protons of each element( top number on periodic table)

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Atomic #

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When an atom or molecule loses or gained a electron. Atom with a electric charge

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Ion

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When a atom gained a electron, becomes negatively charged.

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Anion

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Cation

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When a atom loses one or more electron. Positively charged

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Ionic bond

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An attraction (+-) between atoms that where one loses and electron and the other gains. These bonds easily break in a watery environment

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Free radical

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An atom with a unpaired electron which is highly reactive and toxic to human cells

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Covalent bond

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A bond where electrons are shared between atoms that are very strong. Only enzymes, intense heat can split these bonds

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Polar

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Types of molecules that are positively charged on one side and negatively charged the other. They dissolve in water.

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Non-polar

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Types of molecules that have no difference in charge on the surface and do not dissolve in water

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Aqueos solution

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A solution where water is the solvent

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Hydrogen bond

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The description of water surface tension that is fairly weak where polar molecules are attracted to each other

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Ph

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The concentrated measurement of hydrogen ions in a solution

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Acidic

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A number lower than 7 indicates a____ solution, when considering Ph

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Buffer

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Description of molecules like bicarbonate or phosphate that helps maintain pH by removing excess H+ ions from a solution or donating H+ ions to solution when their concentration is too low

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Concentration

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Amount of solute per unit of volume of solution is a measurement of a solutions ___

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Control group

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A group to be the basis for comparison. This group is not manipulated and does not experience any type of independent variable

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Scientific theory

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Scientist in different areas & diverse disciplines come to the same conclusion to a specific phenomenon

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Hypothesis

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The initial prediction made by a scientist between two or more variables that help guide the design of a experiment

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Subatomic particle with a negative electric charge

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Electron