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homeostasis
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meaning of human life
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anatomy
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the study of structure
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phisiology
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the study of function
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dissection
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carefully cutting and serperating of tissue to reveal their relationships
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cadavar
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dissecting of a dead human body
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compatative anatomy
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the study of more thatone species in order to learn gerneralization and evolutionary traits
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palpation
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feeling structure with fingertips
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auscultation
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is listening to the natural sounds made by the body
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percussion
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tapping on the body and listens to the sound for signs of abnormalities
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gross anatomy
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structures that can be seen with the naked eye
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histology
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the microscopic structure of tissue and organs
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microscopic anatomy
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the microscopic structure of tissue and organs
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histopathology
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is the microscopic examination of tissue for signs of disease
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ultrustructure
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fine detail down to the moleculat lever, revealed by the electron microscope
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comparative physiology
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the study of how different species have solved problems of life such as water balace, repiration, and reporduction.
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hippocrates
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father of medicine
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asristotle
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argues that the complex structures are built from smaller variety of sumple components
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galen
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made the first noteworthy medical book of his time
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avicemann
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galen of islam
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vasalius
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said galen was wrong and wrote new book
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harvey
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said that blood must be recycled
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leeuwenhoek
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first to invent a microscope capable of visualizing single cells
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hooke
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fist to invent the first compound microscope
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zeiss and abbe
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improved the micropscope
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schwann and schleden
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said that all organisms are made of cells
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cell theory
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first part: all organism are composed of cells
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becon and descarted
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wanted science to become public, cooperative enterprise, supported by government and conducted by a communtiy of scholors
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scientific methods
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refers less to observational procedures that to certain habits of disciplin creativity, careful observation, logical thinking, and honest analyis of one's observation and conclusion
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iductive methos
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process of making numerouse observations until confident to draw generalizations and predictions
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hypothesis
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educated speculation or possible answer to your question
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sample size
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number of subjects used
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controls
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comparison between treated and untreated individuals
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controlled group
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non treated sujects
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treated group
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treated sunjects
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phschosomatic effect
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effect of the subjects state of mind on his or her physiology
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expirimenter bias
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expiramenter that wants a certain results so much that it becomes biased
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doubleblind methos
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recorder of data can never be the subjects
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statistical tests
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not random always 95% sure
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peer review
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a critical evaluation by other experts in the field
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facts
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information that can be independently verified by a trainded person
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law
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result of inductive reasoning based on repeated, confirmed observation
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law of nature
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gerneralization about the predictable ways in which matter and enerygy behave
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theory
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explainitory statement, or set of statements, derived from facts, laws, and confirmed hypothesis
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natural selection
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explaination of how species originate and change through time
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charles darwin
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natural selection
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evolution
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chang in genetic composition of a population of organism
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selection pressures
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natural force that promotes the reporductive success of some individuals more than other.
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adaptaion
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are features of an organism anatomy, physiology, and behavior that have evolved in repoonse to these selceted pressured and enable organisms to cope with challenged in the environment
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aboreal
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treetop
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opposable
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they could cross the palms to touch the finger tips
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prehensile
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able to grasp branches
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sterioscopic vision
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depth perception
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bipedalism
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standing or walking on two legs
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organism
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single, complete individual
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organ system
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group of organs with collective functions
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organ
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structure composed of two or more tussed working together to carry o function
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tissue
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mass of cells that forms an organ
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cells
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the smallest unit of organism that carry out the basic function of life
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cytology
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study of organells
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organells
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microscopin structure in a cell that carrys out a function
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atom
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the smalleds particles with unique chemical identities
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reductionism
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study of the bodys simpler components
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holism
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complimentry theory that there are emegent properties of the from whole organism tht cannot be predicted from the properties of its seperate parts
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metabolism
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sum of all this inernal chemical change
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anabolism
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scomplex molecules are synthesised from simpler ones
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catobolism
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complex molecules are broken down into simpler ones
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