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Michelle Jensen
Weeks 1-6 Human Physiology
Body cells survived in a healthy condition only when the tem-perature, pressure, and chemical composition of their fluid enviro ment remained relatively constant what is this called? | The Internal Environment |
What is a Set Point range for glucose? | A value between 80 and 100 mg of glucose per deci-liter of blood, depending on dietary intake and timing of meals, is typical. |
What Supports and protects internal environment, allowing movement; stores minerals that can be moved into and out of internal fluid | Skeletal System |
What Maintains constant fluid pressure by draining excess fluid from tissues, cleaning it, and recycling it to bloodstream | Lymphatic System |
Which system is responsible for maintaining a constant internal environment. | Negative Feedback System |
All carbohydrate compounds contain _______ elements, What are the elements? | Contain 3 elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
There are 6 functions of lipid compounds, what are they? | Energy, Structure,Vitamins,Protection, Insulation and regulation |
Steriods are an important class of lipids, what are the 4 compounds that play an important structural and functional roll | Cholesterol,Cortisol,Estrogen, and Testosterone |
What binds the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another amino acid. | A Peptide Bond |
Name 2 of the Major Functions of Human Protein Compounds | Communicate Information To Cells, and they Provide Energy |
What is a functional protein? | Enzyme |
What is Cystic fibrosis (CF), | An inherited condition in which chloride ion (Cl-) channels in the plasma membrane called CFTRs (cystic fibrosis trans-membrane conductance regulators) are defective. |
A blood disease caused by the production of abnormal hemoglobin (the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen). What is the name of this disease? | Sickle Cell Anemia, |
Cells reproduce by splitting themselves into two smaller daughter cells is called? | Cell Reproduction |
What are the 4 major tissue types? | EpithelialTissue, Connective Tissue, Muscle Tissue and Nervous Tissue |
What are Collagen Fibers made of? | Protein |
Name the tissues have the greatest capacity to regenerate | Epithelial and Connective Tissues |
Thick scars that form in the lower layer of the skin in predisposed individual are called what? | Keloid |
what is the name of the bone that is the largest, strongest bone of the face? | Mandible |
What is a Hyoid Bone and where is it located? | U-shaped bone in the neck between the mandible and upper part of the larynx; distinctive as the only bone in the body not forming a joint with any other bone; suspended by ligaments from the styloid processes of the temporal bones |