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Is an involuntary function of the body |
Breathing |
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The two subdivision of Respiratory system |
Upper and lower respiratory tracts |
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is a large flat muscle at the base of the rib cage and it seperates the chest cavity from abdominal cavity |
Diaphragm |
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Is the mechanics of breathing in and out |
Ventilation |
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Is the red-colored respiratory pigment in humans |
Hemoglobin |
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is a hollow muscular organ about the size of your fist |
Heart |
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Protects the heart |
periacardium |
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Upper chambers of the heart |
Atria (single atrium) |
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Lower chambers of the heart |
Ventricles |
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Divides the left chamber and the right chamber of the heart |
Septum |
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it is where oxygen-poor blood, from all parts of the body |
Right Atrium |
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the blood enters through two large blood vessels called |
vena cavae |
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Collects the blood from upper part of the body |
Superior vena cava |
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collects blood from the lower part of the body |
Inferior Vena Cava |
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The blood pushed into the right ventricle through the _____________ |
Tricuspid Valve |
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Largest artery |
aorta |
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also called as pacemaker |
Sinoatrial node |
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signals the ventricles and they contract, pumping blood out of heart |
Atrioventricular node |
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Heart beat consists of two parts namely |
Diastole Sytole |
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The heart relaxes and blood flows into atria and the ventricles |
Diastole Phase |
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The ventricles contract pumping blood out of the heart |
Systole phase |
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The three blood vessels |
Capillary veins artery |
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Carries the blood away from the heart to all parts of the body |
Artery |
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smallest arteries is |
Arterioles |
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the process of diffusuon of nutrients and gases takes placr in these tiny blood vessels |
capillaries |
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Blood flows from the capillaries to the |
veins |
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smallest veins are |
venules |
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the most numerous of the blood cells |
red blood cells |
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Are colorless and does not contain hemoglobin |
White blood cells |
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responsible for blood clotting |
Platelets |
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Is cause by narrowed, blocked or stiffened blood |
Cardiovascular disease |
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a thickening or enlarging of the heart muscles |
Cardiomyopathy |
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disease of the heart secondary to high blood pressure |
Hypertensive heart disease |
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is an abnormal heartbead |
heart arrythmia |
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Heart structure malformation existing at birth |
Congenital heart disease |
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cells with two set of chromosome |
diploid |
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Have only one set of chromosome |
Haploid |
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monosomy of x chromosome (xo) |
Turner syndrome |
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are those with the same siz, shape and gene content |
Homologous chromosome |
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states that mendelian genes have specific positions on chromosome and that the chromosomes are the ones that segregate and sort independently |
Chromosome theory of inheritance |
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Is a pattern of inheritance where the presence of contrasting alleles leads into an intermediate effect |
Incomplete domincance |
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are those which are associated either with the x or the y chromosome. |
Sex-Linked Traits |
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are believed likely to move into the endangared category |
Vulnerable |
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is used in conversation context for species which are categorized as endangered |
Threatened |
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considered as ___ if they are with small world population that are not at present endangared or vulnerable, but at risk |
rare |
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vertebrates that considered as indicator of climate change |
Amphibians |
