2017 Mod15

Question 1

Define the following terms:

A. gland

Answer 1

A group of cells that prepare and release chemicals for used by the body

Question 2

B. Vaccine

Answer 2

A weekend in active version of the pathogen that simulate the body’s production of antibodies that can destroy the pathogens

Question 3

C. Hormone

Answer 3

A chemical messenger released into the blood stream that sends signals to distance cells, causing them to change their behavior in specific ways

Question 4

Describe the main function of each of the three systems you studied in this module.

Lymphatic=

Endocrine=

Urinary=

Answer 4

Fight disease.

the gland that controls other glands.

regulates water and chemical levels in the blood

Question 5

What do you kind of basic structure make up the lymphatic system? In which of the structures is the lymph actually cleaned?

Answer 5

Lymph vessels and nodes. Lymph nodes

Question 6

How does lymph get pumped through the lymphatic system

Answer 6

Through muscle movement

Question 7

What gland produces tears? What two purposes to tears serve?

Answer 7

Lacrimal glands. They clean the eye from bacteria and give chemical relief for sadness

Question 8

What three kinds of cells in the lymph nodes fight infection?

Answer 8

B cells, T cells, and macrophages

Question 9

What kind of cells in the lymph nodes produces antibodies?

Answer 9

B cells

Question 10

What kind of cell helps the lymphatic system “remember” an infection so that you can fight the infection better next time?

Answer 10

The memory B cells

Question 11

Does it do any good to take a vaccine when you were sick with the disease the vaccine is supposed to fight

Answer 11

Not much

Question 12

Explain how I kidney functions. Start with the blood going into a kidney and end with that leaving the kidney

Answer 12

First the blood enters the kidney then the kidney filters out proteins minerals and such then it leaves the kidney and goes into the nephron which adds the good stuff back into the blood

Question 13

What does a kidney do with any excess water chemicals? where do they go?

Answer 13

Down to the bladder

Question 14

What is the purpose of dialysis?

Answer 14

To filter your blood, if the kidneys don’t work

Question 15

Hypothalamus =

Answer 15

D controls the pituitary gland

Question 16

Thyroid

Answer 16

A produces hormones that regulate the basal metabolic rate

Question 17

Parathyroid

Answer 17

G produces a hormone that destroys bone to release calcium

Question 18

Pituitary

Answer 18

E produces hormones that control many of the endocrine glands

Question 19

Adrenal

Answer 19

B produces cortisone, Which causes the liver to release glucose into the blood

Question 20

pancreas

Answer 20

C produces insulin, which enables glucose to enter the cells

Question 21

Thymus

Answer 21

F produces a hormone that simulates the production of T cells

Question 22

Which gland is often called the “master of endocrine gland”?

Answer 22

The pituitary gland