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Jessica SCI 221
Midterm Study stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Afferent | a signal is traveling toward a particular center or point of reference |
| Efferent | The signal is moving away from a center or other point of reference |
| Hydrophilic | "water loving" |
| Hydrophobic | "water fearing" |
| 3 smaller pathways chemically linked together to form the larger catabolic pathways known as cellular respiration | Glycolysis, Citric acid cycle, electron transport system |
| Obligatory base pairing | Adenine always goes with thymine, and guanine always goes with cytosine |
| Diploid number | Somatic cells contain 46 chromosomes |
| 4 principal types of tissue | Epithelial tissue, Connective tissue, muscle tissue, nervous tissue |
| Long bone structures | diaphysis,epiphyses,articular cartilage,periosteum,medullary cavity,and endosteum. |
| Cervical vertebrae | the first 7 are The skeletal framework of the neck |
| Thoracic vertebrae | the next 12 vertebrae, location in the posterior part of the chest |
| Lumbar Vertebrae | the next 5 , support the small of the back |