Vocab Flashcards
Supports and protects softer organs of the body
Connective tissue
Sheets of cells that line or cover body cavities
Epithelial tissue
Contracts to produce movements
Muscle tissue
Generates and transmits impulses
(Specialized ___ system cells)
Nervous tissue
One or more layers of flattened cells
Squamous
Cube shaped cells
Cuboidal
Tall, thin, and rectangular
Columnar
An individuals particular set of genes
Genotype
The observable physical and functional traits of an organism
Phenotype
The diploid chromosomal complement in any species
Karyotype
Having different alleles at the same location
Heterozygous
Having identical alleles at the same location
Homozygous
Genes coding for the same trait and found at the same locus on homologous chromosomes
Allele
Chromosomes 1 to 22. Applies to all chromosomes except the sex chromosomes
Autosomes
Increase in the rate of cell division
Hyperplasia
Rapidly dividing cells that develop into a mass
Tumor (neoplasm)
Abnormal structural change which may or may not lead to cancer
Dysplasia
The spread of cancer to another organ or region of the body
Metastasis
Regulatory genes that are the check and balances to cell growth and division. Inhibits cell activity
-Genes that normally slow down cell divison
Tumor suppressor gene
Mutated proto-oncogene
Disrupt normal controls for cell divison
Oncogene
Normal genes involved in controlling cell divison and tissue growth
Proto-oncogenes
Proteins in our body from bacteria, viruses, and fungi
“Non-Self” proteins
The events of the cell mitotic cycle which result in cell division or death
Cell cycle kinetics
proposes a model for the effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy on tumor size
Log-kill
