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APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Pages 123-126

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... Articular cartilage: the tissue that covers bones within freely moving joints (hip, knee, shoulder, etc.~. Axon: a long, thin process of a nerve cell that extends away from the cell body (which contains the nucleus and most of the other organelles)
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... Donnan osmotic pressure: the osmotic pressure in a solution of electrolytes that are freely permeable across a semipermeable membrane but are distributed unequally because of the pressure of a nondiffusible charged substance on one side of the membrane. Epitaxy: oriented growth of one crystalline substance on a different crystalline substrate.
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... Microfibril: the substructure of a collagen fibril that is composed of associated tropocollagen units. Nacre: iridescent inner layer of various mollusk shells that consists chiefly of calcium carbonate deposited in thin overlapping sheets with some organic matter.
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Key Terms

  • glucuronic units
  • associated tropocollagen
  • helical collagen
  • contain active
  • organic matter

  • fibrous substance
  • collagen composed
  • collagen fibril
  • sea anemones
  • inner layer

  • plant cell
  • microscopic fiber
  • sea urchins
  • active sites
  • copolymer composed

  • iridescent inner
  • thin overlapping
  • connective tissue
  • charged substance
  • double bonds

  • mollusk shells
  • nondiffusible charged
  • tropocollagen units
  • macromolecule exceeding
  • donnan osmotic

  • carboncarbon double
  • calcite spines
  • calcium carbonate
  • carbonate deposited
  • body walls


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