1. What is physiology?
a. The study of the functions of an organism and its parts.
2. What are the levels of organization in the body?
a. Chemical (atoms and molecules)
b. Cellular
c. Tissue
d. Organ
e. System (ie digestive system)
f. Organism
3. What are the major chemical elements of the body?
a. Carbon. Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus
4. What are emergent properties?
a. How as each level emerges from the next new properties emerge that are unique
to that new level and not apparent in the previous level.
5. What is it called when several components work together for a common unified
purpose?
a. Integration
6. What are the 6 life processes?
a. Metabolism
b. Responsiveness
c. Movement
d. Growth
e. Differentiation
f. Reproduction
7. What is the sum total of all chemical reactions in the body?
a. Metabolism
8. What is catabolism?
a. Breakdown from complex to simple
9. What is anabolism?
a. The build up of simple to complex
10. What is responsiveness?
a. Body's ability to detect and respond to changes in the internal or external
environment.
11. What is movement?
a. Motion of the body, organs, cells, or structures within cells.
12. What is growth?
a. Increase in body size from size of cells or number of cells or both, can also
include material around cells.
13. What is differentiation?
a. Ability of a cell to develop from an unspecialized to a specialized state
14. What are the precursor cells that undergo differentiation called?
a. Stem cells
15. What is reproduction?
a. Formation of new cells or new individual
a. The study of the functions of an organism and its parts.
2. What are the levels of organization in the body?
a. Chemical (atoms and molecules)
b. Cellular
c. Tissue
d. Organ
e. System (ie digestive system)
f. Organism
3. What are the major chemical elements of the body?
a. Carbon. Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus
4. What are emergent properties?
a. How as each level emerges from the next new properties emerge that are unique
to that new level and not apparent in the previous level.
5. What is it called when several components work together for a common unified
purpose?
a. Integration
6. What are the 6 life processes?
a. Metabolism
b. Responsiveness
c. Movement
d. Growth
e. Differentiation
f. Reproduction
7. What is the sum total of all chemical reactions in the body?
a. Metabolism
8. What is catabolism?
a. Breakdown from complex to simple
9. What is anabolism?
a. The build up of simple to complex
10. What is responsiveness?
a. Body's ability to detect and respond to changes in the internal or external
environment.
11. What is movement?
a. Motion of the body, organs, cells, or structures within cells.
12. What is growth?
a. Increase in body size from size of cells or number of cells or both, can also
include material around cells.
13. What is differentiation?
a. Ability of a cell to develop from an unspecialized to a specialized state
14. What are the precursor cells that undergo differentiation called?
a. Stem cells
15. What is reproduction?
a. Formation of new cells or new individual
