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Disease |
Any deviation from or interruption of the normal structure and function of the body |
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Disease processes |
Cell injury, cell and tissue accumulations, vascular disorders, inflammation, neoplastic disturbance in growth, non-neoplastic disturbance in growth |
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Cell degeneration |
Reversible injury |
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Cell necrosis |
Irreversible injury, cell death in living tissue |
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Signs of acute inflammation |
Redness, heat, swelling, pain, loss of function |
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Neoplasia |
Disease process characterized by cells originally derived from normal tissue that have undergone heritable genetic changes allowing them to become relatively unresponsive to normal growth controls |
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Hyperplasia |
Increased tissue mass due to increased number of cells |
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Hyperteophy |
Increased tissue mass due to increased size of cells |
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Atrophy |
Decreased tissue mass due to decreased number and/or size of cells |
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Hypoplasia |
Decreased tissue mass due to failure to develop normally |
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Heredity |
Genetic transmission of characters from parent to offspring |
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Genome |
Code that consists of a sequence of nucleotides within the DNA |
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Gene |
Hereditary unit, sequence of chromosomal DNA that is required for a functional product |
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Pyrimidine DNA bases |
Cytosine, thymine |
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Purine DNA bases |
Guanine, adenine |
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Central dogma of genetics |
Hereditary information resides in the DNA, information flows to DNA for purpose of replication, information flows to RNA for purpose of expression |
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Exons |
Coding regions of DNA |
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Introns |
Non coding regions of DNA |
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