Medical Detectives

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  1. 1. Examiner A physician who performs an autopsy when death may be accidental or violent.
  2. 4. Rate A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.
  3. 6. and cones The retina of the human eye contains 125 million _______ and approximately 5 million _______. This allows you to see colors and light.
  4. 9. Lacks What was the name of the woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research?
  5. 11. Science The application of scientific knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law.
  6. 13. Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.
  7. 14. What is the small shell like shaped organ filled with fluid and lined with hair cells? It is in the inner ear and handles the sound reception.
  8. 17. The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes in order to function properly.
  9. 18. Electrophoresis The separation of nucleic acids or proteins on the basis of their size and electrical charge, by measuring their rate of movement through an electrical field in a gel.
  10. 22. Mortis The gradual cooling of the body following death.
  11. 25. Pressure Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.
  12. 26. Chiasm What is the X shaped structure on the bottom of the brain that connects the the Optic Nerves.
  13. 27. DNA is a molecule located in the nucleus of the cell that determines the structure of ________________ produced in the cell.
  14. 28. Solution Which chemical is used to burst open the cell and allow the DNA out?
  15. 29. A double-stranded helical nucleic acid molecule that determines the inherited structure of a cell's proteins.
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  1. 2. An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.
  2. 3. Hunington's diesease is an ___________________ disease that is caused by a mutation in the DNA of the affected person.
  3. 5. What is one way to identify someone with an impression that can be left by the friction ridges of the human finger.
  4. 7. To recognize a disease by signs and symptoms.
  5. 8. Any of the usually linear bodies in the cell nucleus that contain the genetic material.
  6. 10. A discrete unit of hereditary information consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA.
  7. 12. High blood pressure.
  8. 15. Communicable by contact.
  9. 16. science The application oBlood Pressure
  10. 19. Pressure The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury.
  11. 20. Fatigue What is it called when you smell something until you can no longer smell it?
  12. 21. Callosum What is the structure of the brain that holds the left and right hemispheres together and allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. It is responsible for transmitting neural messages between both the right and left hemispheres.
  13. 23. An examination of the body after death usually with such dissection as will expose the vital organs for determining the cause of death.
  14. 24. What is your tongue covered with that allows you to taste this is a group of cells that make up the taste buds?