APHY 101 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS IVY TECH
COMMUNITY COLLEGE INDIANAPOLIS
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What is the difference Anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts,
between anatomy and whereas physiology is the study of the function of
physiology? body parts
subatomic particles, atom,
What are the levels of molecule, macromolecule,
organization? organelle, cell, tissue, organ,
organ system, organism
What are the requirements Water, food, oxygen, heat, pressure
of life?
Movement (internal or gross); Responsiveness
(reaction to internal or external change); Growth
(increase in size without change in shape);
Reproduction (new organisms or new cells);
Respiration (use of oxygen; removal of CO2);
What are the
Digestion (breakdown of food); Absorption
characteristics of life?
(movement of substances through membranes and
into fluids); Circulation (movement within body fluids);
Assimilation (changing nutrients into chemically
different forms); Excretion (removal of metabolic
wastes)
Define homeostasis Body's maintenance of a stable environment
, the body maintains homeostasis through a number of
What is a homeostatic self-regulating control systems; examples are
mechanism? regulating body temperature and pressure sensitive
receptors to regulate body pressure
Anything that takes up space and has mass (weight). It
Define matter
is composed of elements.
fundamental substance composed of chemically
Define element
identical atoms
Define atoms smallest particle of an element; basic unit of matter
An atom consists of a nucleus containing protons and
What is the structure of an
neutrons, with electrons in
atom?
orbit around the nucleus.
Atomic nucleus the nucleus contains protons and neutrons
Proton subatomic particle that has a positive charge
Neutron subatomic particle that has no charge
Electron subatomic particle that has a negative charge
number or protons in nucleus
Atomic number
Atomic mass number of protons plus number of neutrons
Covalent bonds are formed when atoms share
What are covalent bonds? electrons to become stable with filled
outer shells
2 oppositely charged atoms form this bond when
What are ionic bonds? electrons are transferred from one atom to another
atom
Weak attraction between positive end of one polar
What are hydrogen
molecule and negative end of another polar
bonds?
molecule; formed between water molecules
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