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What is the front side of the body called

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Anterior or Ventral

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What is that back side of the body called

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Posterior or Dorsal

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What is the farthest end from the trunk or head

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Distal

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What is the closest part near the trunk or head

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Proximal

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What does it mean to be below or go towards the feet

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Inferior

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What does it mean to be above or near the head

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Superior

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What does it mean to be away from the midline

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Lateral

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What does it mean to be towards the midline

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Medial

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How does the coronal plane divide the body

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Into Anterior and posterior halves

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How does the sagittal plane divide the body

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Into right and left halves

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What is the cranial region

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The head

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How does the transverse plane divide the body

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Into Superior and inferior halves

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What is the facial region of the body

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The face

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What is the cervical region of the body

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The Neck

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What is the Acromial region of the body

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The shoulders

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What is the thoracic region

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The area in between the chest and stomach and the middle of the back

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What is the pectoral area of the body

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The pecs/chest

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What is the Brachial region

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The upper arm (biceps/triceps)

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What is the cubital region

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The elbows

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What is the Antebrachial region

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The forearms

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What is the Carpal region

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The wrists

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What is the palmar region

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The Palms of the hands

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What is the Umbilical region

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The belly button

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What is the abdominal region

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The area around the belly button

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What is the inguinal region
The front of the hips
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What is the Femoral region
The upper leg (Thigh/Quds and hamstrings)
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What is the Patellar region
The knees
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What is the Crural region
The lower leg
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What is the Pubic region
The groin
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What is the Tarsal region
The ankle
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What is the dorsum of foot
The top of your foot
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What is the Nuchal region
Where the head and spine meet
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What is the Scapular Region
Upper back
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What is the Lumbar region
The lower back
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What is the sacral region
The middle waist
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What is the Gluteal region
The butt
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What is the Perineal region
The inner thigh under the groin
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What is the Popliteal region
Behind the knees
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What is the Calcaneal region
The Achilleas
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How much of our body is water
About 60%
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What are the most abundant organic molecules
Protein and fat
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What are some examples of Carbohydrates
Glucose, Fructose, Galactose, Deoxyribose
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What do all organic molecules contain
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
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What are examples of Polysaccharides
Glycogen, Starch, Cellulose
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What are polar covalent bonds
Unequal sharing of electrons between oxygen and hydrogen
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What are examples of Disaccharides
Sucrose, Lactose
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What are Proteins
Polymers of amino acid
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What is adhesion
When water molecules are attracted to another charged molecule
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What is cohesion
When water molecules are attracted to each other
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What is the plasma membrane
A Phospholipid bilayer that separates inside of cell from outside
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What is the nucleus
The area that contains DNA, RNA, and proteins that regulate the cell's metabolic activity
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What is the Nucleoli
Dense area within nucleus (rRNA) involved in producing ribosomes
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What does the Rough ER do
Uses ribosomes to produce proteins
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What does the Smooth ER do
Produces lipids and detoxifies drugs and alcohol
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What does the golgi apparatus do
receives vesicles containing proteins, then modifies and packages them
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What are centrioles
Cylindrical arrangement of microtubules involved in cell division and motility
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What does the mitochondria do
Use energy within organic molecules to form ATP. Oxygen must be present.
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What are Ribosomes
Transcribes protein from mRNA Made of protein and rRNA
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What are the phases of interphase
G1- performing cell functions S- DNA replication G2- Preparation for cell division G0- arrested
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What are vesicles
Variety of intracellular membrane bound spheres containing enzymes and other molecules
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What are the phases of mitosis
Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase
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What is osmosis
A type of diffusion where water moves through a semipermeable membrane from a high to low concentration
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What does it mean when the tissue is simple
It is one layer thick
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What does it mean to be stratified
More than one cell layer
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What does it mean for a cell to be squamous
Flat and thin
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What does it mean to be cuboidal
cube shaped
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What does it mean to be columnar
Rectangular or column shaped
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What is pseudostratified
It appears to have several layers of nuclei, but all the cells are attached to the basement membrane
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What is Cilia
Motile hairlike projections that can move a layer of mucus
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What kinds of muscle tissue are there
Striated Skeletal Cardiac
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What are striations
Light or dark visual bands of actin or myosin filaments
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What is skeletal tissue
Multinucleated and long and looks like grids or long horizontal lines
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Describe cardiac muscle
Striated, involuntary, one nucleus, and has intercalated disks
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What are intercalated disks
Union between cardiac muscle cells and contain many gap junctions
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Describe smooth muscle
Involuntary and nonstriated
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what is another name for smooth muscle
Visceral muscle
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Describe nervous tissue
Consists of neurons, looks like wires/spider webs, conducts sensory impulses
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What are the types of connective tissue
Areolar, Fibroblast, adipose, blood, elastic, hyaline cartilage, bone
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Describe areolar tissue
Provides support and strengthen dermal and hypodermal layers of skin
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Describe fibroblasts
They produce collagen fibers, elastic fibers, and reticular fibers to give tissues strength and flexibility
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Describe blood
Composed of cells and plasma and is 99% red
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Describe adipose
Looks like large water droplets
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What does Elastic tissue look like
Looks like purple ripples in a puddle
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Describe Hyaline cartilage
it's the most abundant cartilage in the body and covers the ends of bones It looks like mars but grey
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Describe bone tissue
Made of a mineral rich extracellular matrix produced by osteocytes
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