Question of the Day Flashcards
What are kidneys responsible for?
Excretion, Tissue Osmolarity Homeostasis, Producing Hormones, and Plasma PH Homeostasis
What do pulmonary arteries carry?
Oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle
What is the oxygen-poor blood route from the pulmonary artery?
Carries oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle, goes to lungs to pick up oxygen, and goes to left atrium as pulmonary vein
What is Histamine
A signaling molecule that induces gastric acid secretion in the stomach
What hormones inhibit gastric acid secretion?
Somatostatin and GIP
What do enzymes affect?
The activation energy of a reaction
What is the function of bones?
Movement, Protection, Reservoir of Minerals, Hematopoiesis (Forming Blood Cells in Bone Marrow)
Cytosine : Guanine has what type of bond?
Triple hydrogen bond
Adenine : Thymine has what type of bond?
Double hydrogen bond
What does it mean for animals to be poikilotherms?
They maintain varying / fluctuating internal body temperatures
Which animals are poikilotherms?
Fish, reptiles, amphibians
What metal is Chlorophyll associated with?
A central Mg atom
What is returned to the circulatory system?
The circulating lymph
What is the heart’s largest blood vessel?
The aorta
Blood passes from the left atrium to the
Left ventricle
What node is found in the right atrium?
The sinoatrial node
What acts on the thyroid to secrete T3 and T4
TSH
Which acts to release TSH
TRH
What’s the biggest organelle in animal cells?
Nucleus
What is a condenser?
Collects and focuses light from the illuminator onto the specimen
Which sphincter functions in regulating and allowing chyme to pass from the stomach to the duodenum of the small intestine?
Pyloric sphincter
What does the Sphincter of Oddi do?
Allows bile through the hepatopancreatic duct.
What does the Cardiac sphincter do?
It is found between the esophagus and the stomach, preventing stomach acid from coming up to the esophagus
what does the Ileocecal sphincter do?
It prevents the contents of the colon going back into the small intestine
What allows food from the mouth to enter the esophagus?
The esophageal sphincter
