FlashcardsLecture Exam 1 Flashcards
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This 77-card set covers fundamental topics in anatomy and physiology for college-level students. Content includes homeostasis and feedback systems, atomic structure and chemical bonding, cellular organelles, protein production, plasma membrane structure and transport mechanisms, and the four main tissue types with their characteristics and functions. Use it for exam preparation, comprehensive review of lecture material, or self-study before mastering detailed mechanisms.
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- Characteristics of life
- Homeostasis definition
- Concept of set point
- Negative feedback loops
- Positive feedback loops
- What are the components of a feedback system
- Components of a Feedback System. (Receptor)
- Components of a Feedback System (Control Center )
- Components of a Feedback System (Effector)
- Negative feedback and control of blood pressure
- What is the importance of change in set point (in blood pressure homeostasis) during exercise?
- What are the three compartments where water is distributed in the body?
- Why is it important for the three compartments to have similar osmolality?
- What is an Atom?
- What is an Element?
- What are Atomic Numbers?
- What is Mass Number?
- What is Atomic (or Molecular) Mass?
- What is an Isotope?
- What is an Ion?
- What is the difference between ionic and covalent bonding?
- What are the key properties of water?
- What are the concepts of mole, osmolality, and osmotic pressure?
- What are synthesis and decomposition reactions?
- What is pH and the concept of buffers?
- How does the body utilize chemical energy?
- What do carbohydrates do?
- What do lipids do?
- What do proteins do?
- Polar Molecule
- Non-Polar Molecule
- Nucleus
- Mitochondria
- Ribosomes
- Golgi Apparatus
- Lysosomes
- Cytoskeleton
- Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)
- Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)
- What is gene regulation and differentiation?
- What are the steps of protein production? (explain)
- What are the components of the plasma membrane and their purposes?
- Cont-
- What are the types of cell transport?
- How are osmosis and tonicity related?
- How does a cell respond to non-isotonic environments?
- What are the three types of channel proteins?
- What are carrier proteins?
- What is the difference between channel and carrier proteins?
- What is the difference between facilitated diffusion and pumps?
- How does the sodium-potassium pump work?
- What is vesicular transport?
- What are the two types of vesicular transport?
- What are the uses of proteins in the cell?
- What are the four main types of tissue?
- What is embryonic tissue and why is it important?
- What are the characteristics of epithelial tissue?
- What are the functions of epithelial tissue?
- What are the types of epithelial tissue?
- What is the importance of the free surface in epithelial tissue?
- What is the role of the basement membrane in epithelial tissue?
- What are the main types of cell-to-cell connections in epithelial tissue?
- What is the importance of tight junctions?
- What are desmosomes, and why are they important?
- What are gap junctions?
- What are glands?
- What are the two main types of glands?
- What is connective tissue?
- What are the main types of connective tissue?
- What is the extracellular matrix (ECM), and why is it important for connective tissue?
- What are the usual components of the ECM?
- What are tissue membranes?
- What are the types of tissue membranes?
- What is the function of mucous membranes?
- What is the function of serous membranes?
- What is the function of cutaneous membranes?
- What are synovial membranes, and what is their function?
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