Exam stuff Flashcards

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What muscle plays a part in breathing?

A

Diaphram

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2
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Oxygen passes into the blood of the capillaries through which walls?

A

Alveoli

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3
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what reactants are needed for cellular respiration?

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Oxygen and glucose

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4
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What compounds can be carried by hemoglobin?

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CO2 and O2

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5
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what are the sacs in the lungs called that provide a large surface area for gas exchange?

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Alveoli

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6
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What prevents food from entering the Trachea?

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The epiglottis

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7
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What is in charge of chemically breaking down starch?

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The mouth

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What is the role of sodium bicarbonate.

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To raise the pH of the intestine (make it more basic)

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9
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Where are villi found?

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Gallbladder

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10
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Where does fat digestion occur

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Small intestine

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11
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where is water primarily reabsorbed?

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Stomach

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12
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what is CCKs function?

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To stimulate the stomach to secrete gastric juices

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13
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List functions of the liver

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-produces bile
-detoxifies blood
-stores vitamins

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14
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In the liver, what is unused glucose converted to?

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Glycogen

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15
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what is necessary for protein digestion

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Protein, HCI, Pepsinogen and Pepsin

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16
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List the substrates that match the enzymes
a) Pepsin
b) Trypsin
c) Salivary Amylase

A

a) protein
b) protein
c) starch

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17
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what reaction occurs in the stomach

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Protein is broken down

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18
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List three organs where chemical digestion occurs

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-mouth
-pancreas
-small intestine

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19
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What are gastric juices made up of?

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HCI, mucus and pepsinogen

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20
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what structure in the cell is responsible for “packaging and processing” proteins.

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Golgi

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21
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where does protein synthesis happen?

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Ribosome

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22
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What is it called when particles are taken in by a cell by means of the cell surrounding the particles and creating a vesicle around them?

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Phagocytosis

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23
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What part of the brain is the center of thermoregulation?

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Hypothalamus

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24
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What is needed to move particles from a low to high concentration?

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Energy

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What are proteins made up of?
Amino Acids
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What is an organic compound?
C6H12O6
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What are Polysaccharides made of?
Monosaccharides
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What group is nitrogen part of?
Proteins
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What do fructose and glucose combine to make?
Sucrose
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What state of matter are unsaturated fatty acids at room temperature?
liquid
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What happens during dehydration synthesis?
Water is lost to form a larger molecule
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What can make proteins denature?
-heavy metals -strong acids and bases -high temperatures
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when using Benedicts solution, what does orange mean?
a monosaccharide is present
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what is it called when disaccharides, proteins and triglycerides are broken down?
hydrolysis
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what are fats with single bonds?
saturated
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In sensory neurons, what receives stimuli?
dendrites
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What are action potentials?
all or nothing events
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where do you find postsynaptic membranes
dendrites
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During a resting potential neuron what will there be very little of?
Na+
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A nerve impulse can jump from one ______ to another
node of Ranvier
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What is the firing of a neuron called?
Action potential
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What usually carries away a Neuron?
the Axon
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what is the junction between a neuron and its target cell called?
voltage gated channel
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where are neurotransmitters released from vesicles?
dendrite
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what forms the Myelin Sheath?
Schwann Cells
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what are neurons that carry impulses AWAY from the central nervous system called?
Efferent nerves
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What does the parasympathetic nervous system do to a pacemaker?
inhibits it
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what is the first thing that receives a neurotransmitter?
dendrite
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What type of neurons are afferent neurons?
Sensory Neurons
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for blood pressure, what does 120/80 represent?
systolic/diastolic
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what is the SA Node?
the pacemaker of the heart
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what causes the "lub" sound of the heart?
closing of the AV valves
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what heart chamber is the thickest?
Left ventricle
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what do the purkinje fibers do?
they conduct currents through the ventricles
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what part of the ECG shows ventricular electrical recovery?
T wave
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what does the QRS wave of the ECG measure?
electrical activity moving through ventricles
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why does blood pressure fall drastically when in the cappilaries?
distribute lymph fluid
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List three nitrogenous waste products
-urea -creatinine -ammonia
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Urea is produced by the breakdown of ______
proteins
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where are glucose, salts, amino acids, and water normally reabsorbed?
proximal convoluted tubule
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where are potassium, creatinine and other drugs secreted into the nephron?
Distal convoluted tubule
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The blood in the renal artery is high in __a__ and __b__
a - Oxygen b - Urea
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What part of the nephron does ADH affect?
the collecting tubules
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where is the Loop of Henle found?
Medulla
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What is the path of blood vessels going in and out of the nephron?
Renal artery - afferent arteriole - glomerulus - efferent arteriole - pertibular capillaries - venules - renal vein
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which organ releases water, salt, ammonia and urea?
Kidneys
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what does ADH do?
it increases water reabsorption
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what hormone will directly cause the distal convoluted tubules to reabsorb sodium ions?
Aldesterone
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Urine moves through the system in what order?
Bowman's capsule - pct - loop of henle - dct - collecting tubules - renal pelvis - ureter