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Isabella Boyd
Physiology week 1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does afferent mean? | It means that a signal is traveling toward a particular center or point of reference |
| What is intrinsic control? | It is mechanisms that operate at the tissue and organ levels |
| What are the 3 types or classes of carbohydrates? | Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides |
| What is does hydrophilic and hydrophobic mean? | Hydrophilic means water loving and hydrophobic means water fearing |
| What is Osmosis? | Osmosis is the movement of water through a semipermeable membrane |
| What are the four different kinds of nucleotides that a DNA molecule has? | Cytosine, guanine, adenine, and adenine |
| What are the 4 different tissue types? | Epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue |
| What percentage of total bone mass in the adult human body is made up of compact bone? | 80% |
| What are osteoclasts? | They are giant multinucleate cells that are responsible for the active erosion of bone minerals |
| What are Myofibrils? | They are bundles of very fine cytoskeletal filaments that extend lengthwise along a skeletal muscle fiber and al-most fill the sarcoplasm |