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Intro & General Chemistry Flashcards

1
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What are the five functions all living things perform?

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1) Homeostasis
2) Growth
3) Reproduction
4) Movement
5) Metabolism

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What are the levels of organisation and their order?

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1) Molecular
2) Cellular
3) Tissue
4) Organ
5) Organ System
6) Organism

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3
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What is Homeostasis?

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The existence of a stable internal environment maintained by the organism through physiological or behavioural regulation

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What are the three actions of homeostasis?

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1) Receptor sense environmental change
2) Contol centre receives information and determines response
3) Effecter reacts to information from control centre and causes specific response to the disturbance

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5
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What is Positive Feedback?

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Effector that is activated reinforces the initial stimulus

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What is Negative Feedback?

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Effector that is activated opposes or eliminates the stimulus

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7
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If a person is laying dead on their back, they are referred to as being…?

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Supine

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If a persons decked it and fallen onto their belly, they’re referred to as being…?

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Prone

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9
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Whats a fancy term for front or before? Hint - Tiny little red thing

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Anterior

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Whats a term for belly side?

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Ventral

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Whats a fancy term for the arse (behind/back)?

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Posterior

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12
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Whats another term for the back?

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Dorsal

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13
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Whats the term for the head?

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Cranial/Cephalic

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If someone is better than you, you’d say they are… (above/higher)

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Superior (e.g. Superior Vena Cava)

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What is the term for the coccyx, other than the word coccyx?

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Caudal (e.g. Cauda Equina)

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16
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Whats a term for low or below?

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Inferior (e.g. Inferior Vena Cava)

17
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What means towards the midline/middle?

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Medial (e.g. Otitis Media = Inflammation of Inner Ear)

18
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What term is used to describe away from the midline/middle?

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Lateral

19
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What is the fancy anatomical term to describe something near to where its connected?

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Proximal (e.g. NOF is proximal compared to the knee)

20
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What is the fancy anatomical term to describe something thats away from where its attached?

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Distal (e.g. Distal Pulse)

21
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What is the anatomical term to describe something towards the surface?

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Superficial (e.g. “You’re such a superficial b*tch enter name!”)

22
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What is the anatomical term for something more internal or thats further from the surface?

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Deep (e.g. Deep-fried Mars Bar makes the mars bar further from the surface)

23
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What cavity encloses the brain?

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Cranial

24
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What cavity encloses the spinal cord?

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Spinal (No sh*t Sherlock, clues in the name)

25
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What is the main well known chest cavity? Rhymes with Tom Koracick

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Thoracic

26
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What cavity encloses the lung?

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Pleural

27
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What cavity encloses the Heart?

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Pericardial

28
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What body cavity is home to an AAA?

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Abdominal

29
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What body cavity is below the abdomen?

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Pelvic

30
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What are the simplest units of matter? What do they contain?

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Atoms:

Protons, Neutrons, Electrons

31
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What are ions?

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Atoms or molecules that are charged

32
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What are the three types of bonds?

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Covalent
Ionic
Hydrogen

33
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What factors influence diffusion rates?

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Distance
Molecule Size
Temperature
Gradient Size

34
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What are Carbohydrates?

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(CHO) Source of energy

Mono-, Di-, and Polysaccharides

35
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What are fatty acids?

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Long chains of carbon atoms attached to a COOH.

36
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What are fats?

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Fatty acids attached via Glycerol.
Triglycerides most common
Energy, Storage, Insulation, and Protection

37
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What are steroids?

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Composed of four connected Carbon Rings.

Function in cell membranes and as hormones

38
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What are phospholipids?

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Composed of glycerol and two fatty acids connected via phosphate group to a non-lipid.
Most abundant lipid in cell membranes

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