Bio Final Exam Flashcards
What are the 6 functions of the digestive system?
Ingestion, secretion, mixing and propulsion, digestion, absorption, and defecation.
What are the 11 systems of the body?
Integumentary system, skeletal system, muscular system, lymphatic system, respiratory system, digestive system, nervous system, endocrine system, cardiovascular system, urinary system, and reproductive systems.
What is homeostasis?
It tries to maintain the body’s normal functioning and adapts to changes to help keep the body functioning normally.
How do feedback systems work?
They detect things, take info back to brain. It determines what needs to change in order to achieve homeostasis.
What are the three parts/steps of the feedback system?
Receptors that receive info. Control centre that accepts info and decides what changes need to be done. Effectors that transmit the change that needs to be done.
What is a positive feedback system?
Positive strengthens a change in a controlled system (e.g., childbirth, ovulation, blood clotting).
What is a negative feedback system and where are they found?
Negative reverses a change in a controlled system (e.g., blood pressure, body temp., hormones).
What are the functions of the lymphatic system?
Drains excess interstitial fluid, transports dietary lipids and lipid-soluble vitamins to the blood, and carries out immune responses.
What are the parts of the lymphatic system?
Lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus
What happens in the primary lymphatic organs?
Primaries are where stem cells divide and develop into mature B cells and T cells- red bone marrow and thymus
What happens in the secondary lymphatic organs?
The secondary lymphatic organs and tissues are the sites where most immune response occur.
What are the secondary lymphatic organs?
Lymph nodes, the spleen, and lymphatic nodules.
Where are the secondary lymphatic organs?
They are scattered throughout the mucosa of the gastrointestinal, respiratory, urinary, and reproductive tracts.
What is innate immunity and what does it include?
Immunity present at birth and it includes the external physical and chemical barriers provided by the skin and mucous membranes.
What is adaptive immunity?
It involves the production of specific types of cells or specific antibodies to destroy a particular antigen.
What are the 2 types of adaptive immunity?
Cell-mediated immunity and antibody-mediated immunity.
What are the parts of the upper respiratory system?
Nose, nasal cavity, pharynx (throat), and associated structures.
What are the parts of the lower respiratory system?
Larynx (voice box), trachea (windpipe), bronchi, and lungs.
What is atmospheric pressure?
Pulmonary ventilation (breathing) consists of inhalation and exhalation, the movement of air into and out of the lungs. Air flows from higher to lower pressure.
What are the functions of the respiratory system?
- Provides for gas exchange—intake of O2 for delivery to body cells and removal of CO2 produced by body cells.
- Helps regulate blood ph.
- Contains receptors for the sense of smell, filters inspired air, produces sounds, and excretes small amounts of water and heat.
What is internal respiration?
The exchange of respiratory gases between blood and body cells.
What is external respiration?
The exchange of respiratory gases between the lungs and blood.
What is the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and what does it include?
A continuous tube extending from the mouth to the anus. It includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.
What are the accessory organs of the digestive system?
Teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
What are the functions of the digestive system?
Ingestion, secretion, mixing and propulsion, digestion, absorption, and defecation.
What do the pharynx and esophagus do?
Food that is swallowed passes from the mouth into the portion of the pharynx called the oropharynx. From the oropharynx, food passes into the laryngopharynx.
What is the esophagus?
A muscular tube that connects the pharynx to the stomach.
What does the pancreas do?
Secretions pass from the pancreas to the duodenum via the pancreatic duct.
What is the pancreas?
A soft, oblong organ lying along the greater curvature of the stomach and connected by a duct to the duodenum
What is the gallbladder?
A sac located in a depression under the liver that stores and concentrates bile produced by the liver.
What are the phases of digestion?
Cephalic phase, gastric phase, and intestinal phase.
What happens during the cephalic phase during digestion?
Salivary glands secrete saliva and gastric glands secrete gastric juice in order to prepare the mouth and stomach for food that is about to be eaten.
What happens during the gastric phase of digestion?
The presence of food in the stomach causes the gastric phase of digestion, which promotes gastric juice secretion and gastric motility.
What happens during the intestinal phase of digestion?
Food is digested in the small intestine. In addition, gastric motility and gastric secretion decrease in order to slow the exit of chyme from the stomach, which prevents the small intestine from being overloaded with more chyme than it can handle.
What are the parts of the teeth?
Crown, root and neck.
What are the components of the urinary system?
2 kidneys, 2 ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra.
What forms urine?
After the kidneys filter blood and return most of the water and many solutes to the blood, the remaining water and solutes constitute urine.
What are the functions of the kidneys?
Regulate blood volume and, help regulate blood pressure and pH, produce two hormones, and excrete wastes.