| Chemistry | Genetics and Cellular Function | Anatomy of Blood Vessels | Principles of Blood Flow | Blood Pressure |
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What is an anion?
An ion that gains an electron.
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What is a purine?
A double carbon-nitrogen ring.
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What is the tunica interna?
The vessel wall that is in contact with blood lying in the lumen.
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What is Poiseulle's Law?
The law that governs the flow of fluids through tubes.
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What is 120/75 mmHg?
The value of normal blood pressure.
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What is an atom?
Made up of protons, neutrons, and elections
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What is RNA?
Consists of adenine, guanine, uracil, cytosine
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What are veins?
Carries blood toward the heart.
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What is increases?
In terms of calculating blood flow, if the numerator of an equation increases, the blood flow ______.
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What is pulse pressure?
The result of subtracting diastolic pressure from systolic pressure
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What is hydrophilic?
The characteristic of a molecule which allows it to easily dissolves in water.
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What is the synthesis phase?
The stage in mitosis in which DNA replicates.
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What is a capillary?
These connect the smallest arteries to the smallest veins.
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What is the skeletal muscle pump?
The mechanism of venous return in the limbs.
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What is mean arterial pressure?
Hypertension occurs when the resting blood pressure is higher than 140/90.
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What are lipids?
The type of carbon compounds that are fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, eicosanoids, and steroids
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What are Transcription --> translation --> protein synthesis?
The stages of protein synthesis
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What is the tunica media?
Consists of loose connective tissue that merges neighboring blood vessels, nerves, and other organs
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What is gravity?
The mechanism that flows blood "downhill" through large veins.
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What are conducting arteries?
The type of arteries with the highest blood pressure.
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What is a protein?
A macromolecule composed of a carbon atom with 2 attachments of amino acids.
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What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, G1, synthesis, G2?
The stages of mitosis.
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What are a cell-adhesion molecules?
Arise when the when the tissue around the vessel becomes inflamed, it induces leukocytes to stick to the surface
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What is hemodynamics?
The principle of blood flow that is based on pressure and resistance.
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What is systolic?
The high number in blood pressure.
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