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Cardio/cardiac

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Heart

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Arteri/arterio

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Arteries

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Cerebr

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Brain

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Cervic

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Neck

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Crani/cranio

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Skull

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Derm

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Skin

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Gastro

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Stomach

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Gluco/glyco

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Glucose

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Hemat

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Blood

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Hist/histo

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Tissue

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Hyper

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Extreme beyond

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Hypo

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Extreme below

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Nephr/nephro/ren/reno

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Kidney

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Oculo/ocul/opthalm/opthalmo

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Eyes

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Or(o)

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Mouth

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Ost/osteo/ossi

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Bones

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Ot

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Ear

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Pneum/pneumo/pulmon/pulmo

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Lungs

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Rhino/rhin

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Nose

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Somat/somato

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Body

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Trache

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Trachea

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Tympan(o)

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Eardrum

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Vascular

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Blood vessels

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Ven

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Veins

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Anterior

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Front, opposite of posterior

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Ascending

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Traveling up

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Bilateral

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On two sides

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Descending

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Traveling downward

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Distal

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Farther away from beginning, opposite of proximal

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Dorsal

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Pertaining to the human back, opposite of ventral

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Endo

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From inside

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Epi

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On the surface

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Exo-

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From the outside

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Inferior

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Below, opposite of superior

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Lateral

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One side of the body

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Medial

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Middle or inside

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Peri

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Surrounding

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Posterior

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Back, opposite of superior

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Posterior

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Back,opposite of anterior

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Proximal

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Close to the beginning, opposite of distal

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Superior

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Above, opposite of inferior

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Unilateral

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On one side

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Ventral

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Pertaining to the abdomen, opposite of dorsal

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Frontal lobe controls what functions?

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Voluntary actions
Learned motor skills
Higher brain functions (language, thought, planning)

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Parietal lobe controls what functions?

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Processes incoming stimuli, movement, perception, language
Performs calculations
Spatial memory and orientation

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Occipital lobes control what functions?

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Process vision and visual memories

Visual and spatial orientation

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Temporal lobe controls what functions?

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Control memories and emotion
Short-term/long-term memories
Process sound and vision

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Basal ganglia controls what functions?

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Helps control motor function

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Thalamus controls what functions?

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Routes sensation information to the cortex

Helps you distinguish between hot and cold etc.

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The hypothalamus controls what functions?

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Regulates some involuntary functions, such as body temperature and appetite

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50
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What does the limbic system help control?

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Helps control emotion and involuntary functions

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51
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The cerebellum helps control what function?

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Center for balance and coordination of the body

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52
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The medulla oblongata (brain stem) helps control what functions?

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Responsible for consciousness and the bodies vital functions; breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, and swallowing

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53
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The sensory neurons function as what?

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Brings info about a stimulus to the CNS

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54
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Motor neurons function as what?

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Takes information from the CNS to muscle and glands that perform some kind of action

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The somatic nervous system controls what functions?

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Regulated blood pressure, sense pain, or signal that you need to use the restroom

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What does the autonomic nervous system control?

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Controls largely involuntary bodily functions such as breathing and digestion.

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What are the two subsystems of the autonomic nervous system?

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic

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Sympathetic nervous system controls what function?

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Fight or flight response

Reacts be generating more hormones, energy, and efficient blood flood to vital organs.

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Parasympathetic nervous system controls what function?

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Responsible for calming bodily functions, slowing respiration, and heart rate, resuming digestion, and normalizing other functions

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What does the hypothalamus secrete?

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HGH - regulates the body growth
Parathormone -regulates release of thyroxine from the thyroid
Oxytocin - affects contractions of the uterus during childbirth
Vasopressin - regulates how the kidneys absorb water from the blood

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What does the pineal gland produce?

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Produced melatonin, which regulates your sleeping patterns

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The pituitary gland secretes a variety of hormones that affect what?

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Skin tone, growth, blood pressure, breast milk production, onset labor, metabolism, sexual function, regulation of water temperature and balance, thyroid function

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The thyroid and parathyroid secrete what?

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Thyroid - secretes thyroxine and triiodothyronine, which regulates the body metabolism, growth, and sensitivity to other hormones
Parathyroid - secretes parathormone, which regulates calcium and phosphate concentrations in the blood

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The adrenal gland secretes what?

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Secretes fight or flight hormones; epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol

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The pancreas functions in the control of what?

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Production of insulin and glucagon, hormones that control the regulation of glucose in the blood to go down
Insulin - causes glucose levels to go down
Glucagon - causes glucose levels to go up

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The ovaries produce what hormones?

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Estrogen - development of secondary female characteristics, helps preserve bone mass and elasticity within the body
Progesterone - maintains the lining of the uterus for pregnancy, regulates menstruation

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What is the function of the process called peristalsis?

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Muscles in the esophagus expand and contact to keep the food moving down

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What are the gastric juices in the stomach?

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Mucous, hydrochloric acid, and pepsin

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Define chyme

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The mixture of gastric juices and food

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What is the function of the duodenum?

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To further break down fat, carbohydrates, and proteins

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What part of the small intestine absorbs nutrients?

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Jejunum and ilium with the help of vili

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What is the function of the liver?

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Filters blood
Removes waste, toxins, and bacteria
Removes excess glucose from blood and stores it as glycogen
Secretes bile as a waste product

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What is the function of the gallbladder?

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Stores bile secreted from the liver

Bile contains salts and enzymes that break down fats and remove dead RBC and excess cholesterol

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What does the colon absorb?

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Water and salts

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75
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What are the by products of the colon bacteria?

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Vit K
B12
Riboflavin
These are absorbed by the blood to nourish the body

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What is the function of the kidney

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To filter blood
The nephrons in the kidney is where filtration takes place, removes excess fluid and waste from blood and turns them into urine

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What is the function of smooth muscle

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Perform involuntary movement

Narrow with only one nucleus

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What is the function of skeletal muscle

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Attached to the bone through tendons
Long, multinucleus fibers
Used in voluntary movement

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79
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Define seminiferous tubules

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Small, coiled tubes within testes where sperm is developed

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80
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Define Sertoli cells

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Support the sperm with in the seminiferous tubules

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81
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What does leydig cells produce?

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Testosterone

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82
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What is the function of the vas deferens?

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Carries sperm to the urethra which passes through the penis

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83
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Testosterone and other steroid hormones are collectively called what?

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Androgens

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84
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Defines spermatogenesis

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Meiotic development of sperm in males

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85
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What is the alimentary cavity?

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The entire pathway food follows through the body

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86
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Define peristalsis

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Wave like muscular action conducted by smooth muscle that lines the gut in the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine

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What does the medulla oblongata control?

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Controls breathing rate

Monitors CO2 content in the blood

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What are the kidneys functions

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Form urine to remove nitrogenous waste ( urea)

Regulate the volume and salt content of the extra cellular fluids

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The esophagus is part of the ______ system

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Digestive

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90
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How does a Sagittarius section divide the body?

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Into right and left regions

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91
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What nervous system has to deal with the reception of external stimuli and voluntary control of muscles?

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Somatic

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92
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Where would a herniated disc most likely create pain?

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Along the sciatic nerve

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93
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Beriberi is a disease caused by lack of:

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Thiamine

Often found in people whose diet consists largely of polished white ride

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94
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Hertz (hz) is a unit of frequency defined as:

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The number of cycles per seconds of a periodic phenomenon

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Acid + base –> ?

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Salt + water

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96
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To find acceleration of an object, what would you need to know?

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Initial speed
Final speed
Time

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Average speed is a simple calculation of:

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Distance vs time

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Name types of proteins and examples

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Hormonal - insulin, glucagon 
Transport - hemoglobin, carrier proteins 
Structural - collagen 
Contractile - myosin, actin 
Antibodies - immunoglobulin, interferon 
Enzymes - amylase, lipase, ATPase
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99
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What is the first step in the path to ATP?

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Glycolysis

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100
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Glycolysis takes ____ and breaks it down to ____

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Takes glucose and breaks it down to 2 pyruvate molecules

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What is fermentation?

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Glycolysis with the absence of oxygen, NADH is regenerated to NAD+ to continue to produce ATP. Ethanol and lactic acid are produced as by products

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Glycolysis takes 1 glucose and produces _____

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2 ATP and 2 NADH

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103
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Where does the Krebs cycle take place?

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Mitochondria

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104
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Where does photosynthesis take place?

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Chloroplast

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105
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What kind of cells contain chloroplast?

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Mesophyl

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106
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What part of a leave regulate oxygen and carbon dioxide

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Stomata

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107
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Describe transcription

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RNA is produced when a gene segment of DNA is read by RNA, acquires a complimentary gene sequence

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108
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Describe translation

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Gene sequence carried by RNA is read and appropriated into a sequence of amino acids

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109
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Where are ribosomes synthesized?

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Nucleolus

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110
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Smooth ER is involved in _____

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Lipid synthesis

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111
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Rough ER is involved is ______

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Protein synthesis

112
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What does the Golgi do?

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Modifies protein, ships the vesicles to their next stop

113
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Lysosomes contain _______ and are involved in ______

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Hydrolytic enzymes; intracellular digestion

114
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What is the function of peroxisomes

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Break fat into smaller molecules that can be used for food

115
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What is the function of glyoxysomes?

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Convert fats to sugars

116
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What is the function of the mitochondria?

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Aerobic respiration

117
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Where does ATP production occur?

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Mitochondria matrix

118
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Describe osmosis

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Diffusion of water from low concentration to high concentration

119
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Hypertonic

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Water will flow out, cell will shrink

120
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Hypotonic

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Water will flow in; cell will swell

121
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Diffusion

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Movement of dissolved particles from a region of high concentration to low concentration

122
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Passive vs. facilitated diffusion

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Facilitated diffusion requires carrier proteins in the membrane to get particles across the gradient while passive diffusion doesn’t

123
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Active transport

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Movement of dissolved particles against their concentration gradient

124
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Uniport proteins

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Carry a single solute across the membrane

125
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Symport protein

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Translocates 2 different solutes in the same direction simultaneously

126
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Antiport proteins

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Exchange 2 solutes by transporting one into the cell and the other out of the cell

127
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What is the reproduction of prokaryotes called?

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Binary fission

128
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Mitosis

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Cell division to produce 2 daughter cells with the same genomes.
Asexual production; mechanism for development, growth, replacement of tissue

129
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Meiosis

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Sexual reproduction that produces male and female gametes

130
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Mechanism use by bacteria to move genes between cells by exchanging circular, extra chromosomal DNA with each other

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Conjunction

131
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What stages of the cell cycle in mitosis at considered interphase?

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G1, S, G2,

132
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Name the 4 stages of mitosis in order

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Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase

133
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Cytokinesis

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Process that complete the split into daughter cells

134
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Name a pro and con of asexual reproduction

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Pro - allow more rapid population growth

Con - doesn’t creat genetic diversity

135
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What are the sex cells produced through meiosis in males and females

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Gametes (haploid cells)

136
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What is formed in the union of haploid gametes?

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Zygote (diploid single-cell)

137
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Name the organ that produces gametes

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Gonads

138
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Males gonads _____ produce male gametes _____

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Testes; spermatozoa

139
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Females gonads ______ produce _____

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Ovaries; ova

140
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Germ cell

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Cell that is committed to the production of gametes, but not itself a gamete (diploid)

141
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How are sex cells reproduced?

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Meiosis

142
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Meiosis I produces ______, meiosis II involves ______ resulting in _______

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2 intermediate daughter cells; the separation of sister chromatids; in 4 genetically distinct haploid cells

143
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Where is sperm developed?

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Coiled tubes with in the testes called seminiferous tubules

144
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What cells make testosterone?

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Leydig cells

145
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What carries sperm to the urethra through the penis?

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Vas deferens

146
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Testosterone and other steroid hormones are collectively called

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Androgens

147
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What is the meiotic development of sperm in males?

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Spermatogenesis

148
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What animals participate in external reproduction

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Fish and amphibians

149
Q

______ is a wavelike muscular action by smooth muscle that lines the gut in the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine

A

Peristalsis

150
Q

Where does digestion begin?

A

In the mouth

151
Q

What enzyme breaks down the complex starch polysaccharide into maltose?

A

Salivary amylase

152
Q

What vein returns oxygenated blood to the heart

A

Pulmonary vein

153
Q

Ventricle contraction occurs during _____ part of the cardiac cycle

A

Systole

154
Q

Atria contract during the ______ part of the cycle

A

Diastole

155
Q

The most important nervous stimulation of the heart is induced by ________?

A

Vagus nerve of the parasympathetic system

156
Q

What can increase the heart rate?

A

Sympathetic nervous system and epinephrine

157
Q

What permits the exchange of materials between the blood and the body’s cells?

A

Capillaries

158
Q

What is the largest lymph vessel

A

Thoracic duct

159
Q

What Are the main salts in plasma?

A

Sodium chloride and potassium chloride

160
Q

Where are blood cells formed?

A

Bone marrow

161
Q

What protein carries oxygen?

A

Hemoglobin

162
Q

Skin, lining of the lungs, the mouth, and stomach are:

A

Passive immunity

163
Q

Function of phagocyte

A

Engulf bacteria with ameboid motion

164
Q

What are the most abundant type of lymphocyts?

A

B and T cells

165
Q

What do B cells produce?

A

Antibodies or immunoglobulin

166
Q

_______ is used to drive electron transport and ATP production

A

Oxygen

167
Q

_______ is produced from burning glucose

A

Carbon dioxide

168
Q

Breathing rate is controlled by:

A

Medulla oblongata

169
Q

What part of the brain monitors carbon dioxide content in blood?

A

Medulla oblongata

170
Q

The ______ adds moisture and warmth to inhaled air, helps to filter it

A

Nose

171
Q

What protects the body from ultraviolet light?

A

Melanin

172
Q

What is the purpose of sweat glands

A

To cool the body

173
Q

What nervous system controls sweating?

A

Autonomic nervous system

174
Q

What organ removes nitrogenous waste and regulates the volume and salt contents of extra cellular fluids?

A

Kidneys

175
Q

What system is a network of glands and tissue that secrete hormones?

A

Endocrine system

176
Q

The pancreas and adrenal cortex are:

A

Endocrine glands

177
Q

Eat connects the nervous system with the endocrine system and how?

A

Hypothalamus by releasing hormone like substances called releasing factors

178
Q

What does TSH secrete and where is it located?

A

Secreted thyroxine. Is located in the anterior pituitary gland

179
Q

ACTH stimulates _______ to secrete ______

A

Adrenal cortex; corticosteroid

180
Q

What hormone is responsible for milk production?

A

Prolactin

181
Q

FSH spurs maturation of ______ and _____. It is location in the ________

A

Seminiferous tubes in males; ovaries in females; anterior pituitary gland

182
Q

LH secrets ______ in males and stimulates ________ in females

A

Testosterone; ovulation

183
Q

What secretes progesterone and estrogen?

A

Corpus luteum

184
Q

What hormone acts on kidneys to reduce water loss? Where is it located?

A

ADC, also known as vasopressin. Located in posterior pituitary

185
Q

What hormone causes uterine contraction? Where is it released from?

A

Oxytocin, located in posterior pituitary

186
Q

An abnormal ______ causes goiter, decreased heart rate, lethargy, obesity, and decreased mental awareness

A

Deficiency of thyroxine

187
Q

Produced perspiration, high body temperature, increased basal metabolic rate, high blood pressure, loss of weight, and irrationality are characteristics of:

A

Hyperthyroidism

188
Q

What hormone regulated phosphate and calcium balance in blood, bones, and other tissues?

A

Parathyroid hormone

189
Q

How does the exocrine function secrete enzymes?

A

Through ducts in the small intestine

190
Q

How does the endocrine function secrete hormones?

A

Directly into the blood stream

191
Q

What hormones is released when glucose hormones are high in the blood stream?

A

Insulin

192
Q

What hormone responds to low concentrations of blood glucose?

A

Glucagon, secreted by islets of langerhan

193
Q

______ stimulate ______ to synthesis and secrete the steroid hormone called ______

A

ACTH; adrenal cortex; corticosteroid

194
Q

Testes produce the hormone _____ and ovaries produce the hormone _______

A

Testosterone; estrogen

195
Q

______ are specialized cells designed to transmit information

A

Neurons

196
Q

Neurons transmit information in the form of electrochemical signals called:

A

Action potentials

197
Q

What chemical signal is released across a small gap between the neuron and the target cell?

A

Neurotransmitter

198
Q

Name the gap between the neuron and the target cell

A

Synaptic cleft

199
Q

The brain and spinal cord are part of what nervous system?

A

Central nervous system (CNS)

200
Q

The peripheral nervous system consists ___ pairs of cranial nerves and ____ pairs of spinal nerves

A

12; 31

201
Q

What nervous system is responsible for voluntary movement?

A

Somatic motor nervous system

202
Q

What nervous system regulates the involuntary functions of the body?

A

Autonomic nervous system

203
Q

What nervous system is responsible for the fight-or-flight response, releasing norepinephrine

A

Sympathetic nervous system

204
Q

What nervous system deactivates or slows down the activities of muscle and glands?

A

Parasympathetic nervous system

205
Q

What is the primary neurotransmitter for the parasympathetic nervous system

A

Acetylcholine

206
Q

What part of the brain controls all voluntary motor activities

A

Cerebral cortex

207
Q

Nervous impulses and sensory information are relayed and integrated:

A

In the thalamus

208
Q

What part of the eye bends and focuses light?

A

Cornea

209
Q

What part of the eye is suspended by the pupil

A

Lens

210
Q

The lens focuses the image onto the _____

A

Retina

211
Q

What are the 2 types of photoreceptors?

A

Cons and rods

212
Q

_____ respond to high-intensity illumination and are sensitive to color, while _____ detect low-intensity light and are important to night vision

A

Cons; rods

213
Q

Where are the olfactory receptors located

A

Upper part of the nostrils

214
Q

The _____ is the midline basic framework of the body, including the skull, vertebrae column, and rib cage.

A

Axial skeleton

215
Q

The _______ includes the bones of the appendages as well as the pectoral and pelvic girdles

A

Appendicular skeleton

216
Q

What muscle is innervated by the autonomic nervous system? (Involuntary muscle)

A

Smooth muscle

217
Q

Where is smooth muscle present?

A

Walls of arteries and veins, digestive tract, bladder, uterus

218
Q

What type of muscle is voluntary, striated, and multinucleated?

A

Skeletal muscle

219
Q

Actin and myosin filaments are organized into sections called:

A

Sacromeres

220
Q

Cardiac muscle is regulated by what nervous system?

A

ANS

221
Q

What is critical for cells to generate energy to energy, maintain the stability of cell walls, and to function in general?

A

Electrolytes

222
Q

What electrolyte regulates the amount of water in the body

A

Sodium

223
Q

What electrolyte is essential for normal cell function, regulation of the heart beat, and functions of heart muscle?

A

Potassium

224
Q

What electrolyte maintains a normal balance of body fluids?

A

Chloride

225
Q

What electrolyte acts as a buffer to maintain normal levels of acidity?

A

Bicarbonate

226
Q

What electrolyte is involved in a variety of metabolic activities including laxative of the smooth muscles?

A

Magnesium

227
Q

What tissue in plants transports nutrients?

A

Phloem

228
Q

What is the function of cellulose in plants?

A

Provide structure and support

229
Q

Plants without vascular tissue (moss) are called:

A

Nontracheophytes

230
Q

Give an example of tracheophytes

A

Pine, ferns, flowering plants

231
Q

What is the asexual stage of a plants life cycle called?

A

Sporophyte generation (diploid)

232
Q

What generation of the plant is concerned with the production of male and female gametes?

A

Gametophyte

233
Q

What develops from the spores made by the sporophyte?

A

Male gametophyte

234
Q

What develops in the ovule from one of four spores?

A

Female gametophyte

235
Q

Sperm nucleus fuses with the 2 polar bodies to form the:

A

Endosperm

236
Q

How many chromosomes do humans have?

A

23

237
Q

Different versions of a gene are called:

A

Alleles

238
Q

The types of alleles and organism has is called:

A

Genotype

239
Q

Is there are two alleles in an individual that determine a trait, these two alleles will separate during gamete formation and act independently:

A

Law of segregation

240
Q

What law describes the relationship between different genes?

A

Law of independent assortment

241
Q

The phenomenon in which alleles fail to assort independently because the are on the same chromosome is called:

A

Linkage

242
Q

Both alleles are expressed partially is an example of :

A

Incomplete dominance

243
Q

Both alleles are fully expressed without one allele being dominant over another is an example of:

A

Codominance ( blood types)

244
Q

Humans have how many pair of autosomes?

A

22

245
Q

Give an example of sex linkage

A

Color blindness or hemophilia

246
Q

______ are changes in the genes that are inherited

A

Mutations

247
Q

A piece of chromosome breaks off and rejoins a different chromosome in an event called:

A

Translocation

248
Q

Non living environment

A

Abiotic

249
Q

A group of individual members of a species that interbreed and share the same gene pool

A

Population

250
Q

Interacting populations living together in an environment

A

Community

251
Q

A living community within an abiotic environment; the interactions between populations; as well as the flow of energy and molecule within the system

A

Ecosystem

252
Q

Producers and primary consumers are known as:

A

Trophic levels

253
Q

What are the 8 types of terrestrial biomes?

A 
Tropical Forrest
Savannah 
Desert
Temperate deciduous Forrest
Northern coniferous Forrest 
Taiga 
Tundra 
Polar region
254
Q

What are the 2 aquatic biomes?

A

Marine

Freshwater

255
Q

What type of rock are fossils generally found in?

A

Sedimentary

256
Q

What type of dating is used to determine the age of fossils that are only a few thousand years old?

A

Carbon dating

257
Q

_______ structures have the same basic anatomical features and evolutionary design.

A

Homologous structure (wings of bat, flippers of whale)

258
Q

Structure that derive from a common ancestor but diverged to form different functions is called:

A

Divergent evolution

259
Q

______ structure have similar functions but may have different evolutionary origins and entirely different patterns of development

A

Analogous ( wings of fly, wings of bird )

260
Q

Wen structures look the same and share a common function but are not derived from a common ancestor it is called:

A

Convergent evolution

261
Q

Structure that appear to be useless, but had some function in an earlier stage of organisms evolution are called:

A

Vestigial structures

262
Q

A group of organisms that is able to successfully interbreed with each other to produce fertile offspring:

A

Species

263
Q

Science of classifying living things

A

Taxonomy

264
Q

What are the 3 domains?

A

Bacteria, archaea, eukarya

265
Q

Order of classification division, largest to smallest

A

Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family genus, species

266
Q

What are one of the best known protists?

A

Amoebas and algae

267
Q

______ are heterotrophs that absorb nutrients from their environment

A

Fungi

268
Q

Sea stars and jellyfish a examples of _____ symmetry

A

Radial

269
Q

Animals with mirror images are examples of _______ symmetry

A

Bilateral

270
Q

At some stages of early development a stiff solid dorsal rod called the ______ can be observed

A

Notochord

271
Q

The flowers male organ is known as:

A

Stamen

272
Q

What part of the flower produces haploid spores?

A

Anther

273
Q

The flowers female organ is called:

A

Pistol

274
Q

What part of the flower catches pollen?

A

Stigma

275
Q

What part of the flowers female organ permits the sperm to reach the ovaries?

A

Style

276
Q

What is the base of the flowers female organ called?

A

Ovary

277
Q

What part of the flower attracts insects?

A

Petals

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