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29 Cards in this Set
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Anterior Pituitary Hormones
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"FLAGTOP"
F: Follicle Stimulating Hormone L: Luteinizing Hormone A: ACTH G: Growth Hormone T: Thyroid Stimulating Hormone O: MSH - melanOcyte stimulating hormone P: Prolactin |
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Autonomic Nervous System
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Sympathetic: fight or flight
Parasympathetic: rest and digest |
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Causes of Deviations from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
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"Maggie May Does Not Smoke"
Mutations, Migration, genetic Drift, Non-random mating, Selection. |
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Cell Cycle
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"Go Sally Go! Make Children!"
G1, S, G2, M, C Growth phase 1, DNA Synthesis (replication), Growth phase 2, Mitosis, Cytokinesis. |
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Mitosis
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"People Meet And Talk", or
"PMAT" Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase. |
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Meiosis
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"PMAT x2"
Prophase I, Metaphase I, Anaphase I, Telophase I, Prophase II, Metaphase II, Anaphase II, Telophase II, (Note: 4 haploid daughter cells instead of 2 diploid daughter cells) |
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Chordate Features
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"Do Not Pinch People"
Dorsal, hollow nerve cord Notochord Pharyngeal slits Postanal tail |
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Developmental Stages
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"Must Be Good"
Morula, Blastula, Gastrula |
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Fat-soluble Vitamins
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ADEK
Vitamins A,D,E, and K |
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Gastrointestinal Hormones
(i.e. ones that originate from the GI tract) |
"Garlic Cloves Smell Exquisite"
Gastrin Cholesystokinin Secretin Enterogastrin (gastric inhibitory peptide) |
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Hormones that Increase Blood Glucose
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"STENGG"
Somatotropin (growth hormone) Thyroid hormones (throxine and triiodothyronine) Epinephrine Norepinephrine Glucagon Glucocorticosteroids |
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Immunoglobulins
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"MADGE"
IgM, IgA, IgD, IgG, IgE |
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Kingdoms
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"My Poor Friend Picks Apples"
Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plants, Animals |
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Male Reproductive Tract (path of sperm)
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"SEVEN UP"
Seminiferous Tubules Epididymis Vas deferens (Nothing) Urethra Penis |
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Menstrual Cycle
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"FOL(d) M(a)PS"
Ovarian cycle: Follicular phase, Ovulatory phase, Luteal phase The ovarian cycle controls the menstual cycle. The cycles begin (day0) when menstrual flow starts. At day 14, the luteal and secretory phases begin and last until day 28 after which the cycles begin again. |
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Exons/Introns
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"EXons EXpressed, INtrons IN the trash"
DNA expression into mature mRNA |
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Pyrimidines
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(one-ring structures)
"CUT the PY" Cytosine, Uracil, and Thiamine are PYrimidines |
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Purines
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(two-ring structures)
"GAPur" Guanine and Adenine are PURines |
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Relationship between purines and pyrimidines
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"All Tigers Can Growl"
Adenine bonds to Thymine; Cytosine bonds to Guanine or ""Pure Silver Taxi" Purines, A and G, bond to pyrimidines, T and C, respectively |
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Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve
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Think of an exercising muscle for a rightward shift:
Exercising muscle is: hot, acidic (lactic acid), hypercarbic, and has increased 2,3-DPG Exercising muscle benefits from increased oxygen unloading from red blood cells |
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Proteases in the Duodenum
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"Eat Tender Chicken Chunks Elegantly"
Enterokinase Trypsin Chymotrypsin Carboxypeptidase Elastase |
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Inductive Reasoning
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"IS GOHH"
Induction: Specific > General. Or, Observation > Hypotheses > Hypothesis-testing |
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Deductive Reasoning
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"D(o)GS"
Deduction: General > Specific The deductive process proceeds from a general hypothesis to predictions about specific observations. |
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Sedimentation
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Rate of SeDimentaiton is proportional to Size and Density
More precisely, Terminal velocity of particle m radius^2 x (density - density of medium) |
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Sizes of organisms
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"Bowel Movement" or "BM"
A Bacterium is about 1 Micron A eukaryotic cell is about 10 times larger (10 micron) A virus is about 100 times smaller (0.01 microns) |
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Striated Muscle
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"ZIAH"
Z-line, I-band, A-band, H-zone |
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Taxonomy
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"King Phillip Came Over From Great Spain"
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species |
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Vertebrate Features
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"CEVASACK"
Cephalization Endoskeleton Vertabrae Axial skeleton Skull Appendicular skeleton Closed circulatory system Kidneys |
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White Blood Cells
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(In order of decreasing numbers)
"Nobody Likes My Educational Backgroud" N Neutrophyils L Lymphocytes M Monocytes E Eosinophils B Basophils |