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Define Biomarkers
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A substance in the body that indicates a disease process or exposure to a toxin such as serum cholesterol
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What are biomarker test criteria
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-Simple and inexpensive
-Sensitivity
-Specificity
-Reproductivity
-Noninvasiveness
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Chemisty considers what and how they change?
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The composition of substances
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What depend on cellular functions?
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Body functions
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Cellular functions result from what?
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Chemical changes
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What does biochemisty help to explain?
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Physiological processes
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What deals with living and non-living matter?
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Chemistry
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Chemical reactions enable our bodies to do what?
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Extract energy from nutrients
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Define matter
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Anything that takes up space and has mass
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Give 4 examples of matter
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Iron, copper, silver, gold
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Define elements
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Composed of chemically identical atoms
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What are bulk elements?
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Required by the body in large amounts
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What are trace elements?
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Required by the body in small amounts
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What are ultratrace elements?
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Required by the body in very minute amounts
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What elements make up 95% of the human body?
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-Carbon
-Hydrogen
-Oxygen
-Nitrogen
-Sulfur
-Phosphorus
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