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Response and Regulation 1 Flashcards

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1
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What is the role of the nervous system?

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It controls and coordinates responses and senses in your body

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What do we use to detect stimuli?

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Receptors

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Which sense organ & receptors detects movement?

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Ear & skin
Position receptors
Pressure receptors

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Which sense organ & receptors detect changes in heat?

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Skin & blood vessels

Heat receptors

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Where are the different taste receptors in the tongue located?

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Front: Sweet
Between front and side: Salty
Side: Sour
Back: Bitter

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What two parts is the human nervous system comprised of?

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Central nervous system (CNS) - Brain and spinal cord

Peripheral nervous system - Nerve cells that carry information to or from the CNS

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Electrical signals called ____ travel along ____

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1) Impulses

2) Neurones

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How are nerve cells (neurones) adapted to carry electrical impulses?

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Long fibre (axon) to carry messages over long distances
Insulated by a fatty sheath (myelin sheath) which increases speed of nerve impulses
Tiny branches (dendons) which branch out into dendrites - these receive incoming nerve impulses from other neurons
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What are receptors?

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Groups of specialised cells in sense organs that respond to specific stimuli

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What are effectors?

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Parts of the body that produce a response to a stimulus e.g. muscles and glands

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What are nerves?

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Bundles of neurones that connect receptors and effectors to CNS

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What is a synapse?

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The gap between the ends of two neurones

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How do synapses work?

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The electrical impulse reaches the end of the neurone before the synapse which triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters. These diffuse (move down a concentration gradient) across the synapse. The neurotransmitters bind to receptors on the next neurone. The presence of the neurotransmitter causes the production of an electrical impulse in the next neurone.

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What is the point of synapses?

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They help to regulate the speed and direction of impulses.

+ If the stimuli affects too few neurones the impulse is not transmitted across the cleft. This allows the ‘filtering out’ of continual unnecessary or unimportant background stimuli.

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What are reflex actions?

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Automatic, rapid responses, often to harmful situations

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What are voluntary actions?

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Responses coordinated by the brain

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What is the role of a sensory neurone?

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To carry impulses from the RECEPTOR to the SPINAL CORD

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What is the role of a relay neurone?

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To carry impulses from SENSORY to MOTOR neurones

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What is the role of motor neurones?

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To carry impulses from CNS to EFFECTORS

20
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Describe the journey from detecting a stimulus to carrying out an action

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RECEPTORS —sensory neurones—> CNS —motor neurones—> EFFECTORS

21
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Why do we have reflex actions?

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A way for the body to automatically and rapidly respond to stimulus to minimise any damage to the body

22
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Do reflex actions involve the brain?

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NO, they don’t have to go through neurones in the brain

23
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Where in the nervous system do relay nerves live?

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Peripheral nervous system

24
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Which direction do nerve impulses travel?

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From dendrites to axon terminals

25
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What is the name given to the path taken by a nerve impulse in a reflex action?

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The reflex arc

26
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What are some examples of reflex actions?

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Sneezing
Knee jerk
Blinking

27
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What name is given to all 3 types of neurone in the reflex arc?

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Coordinators

28
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What are the components of the reflex arc?

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  1. Stimulus
  2. Receptors
  3. Coordinators
    4 Effectors
  4. Response
29
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What factors can affect human reaction time?

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Caffeine and exercise

30
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What roles does the eye serve?

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1) Detect light and dark/different intensities of light
2) Detect colours or tones
3) Protect the light detecting surface
4) Be able to focus on objects at different distances
5) Adjust level of light to alter level of brightness hitting sensory surface
6) Prevent light being reflected on its way to sensory surface

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What is the cornea?

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The transparent frontal part of the eye that refracts light

32
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What comprises the retina?

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Full of receptor cells sensitive to light intensity and colour

33
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What is the white of the eye called and what does it do?

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The SCLERA

Protective outer coat

34
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What does the optic nerve do?

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Transmits (sends) visual information (as electrical impulses) from the retina to the brain

35
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What is the choroid?

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Layer between the sclera and the retina that contains blood vessels to supply the retina + prevents internal refraction of light inside the eye

36
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What does the lens do?

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Changes shape to refract light and focus it on the retina

37
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What does the iris do?

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Iris muscles control pupil diameter

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How does the iris react to different levels of light and why?

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In bright light the iris muscles contract to make the pupil smaller and let less light through

In dim light the iris muscles relax to make the pupil larger and let in more light

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How do we focus on a near object?

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Ciliary muscles contract
Suspensory ligaments loosen
Lens gets thicker
Light rays refracted more strongly

40
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How do we focus on a distant object?

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Ciliary muscles relax
Suspensory ligaments pulled tight
Lens pulled thin
Light rays refracted less strongly

41
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When does short-sightedness occur?

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When the eyeball is too long for the strength of the lens or the cornea is too sharply curved

42
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What is short-sightedness?

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When the image produced falls short of the retina

43
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How can short-sightedness be corrected?

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A concave lens which diverges the light rays before they enter the eye

44
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When does long-sightedness occur?

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When the lens is too weak because it’s not thick enough, the eyeball is too short, or the cornea is not curved enough

45
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What is long-sightedness?

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When the image produced falls behind the retina

46
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How can long-sightedness be corrected?

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A convex lens which converges the light rays before they enter the eye

47
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Which part of the eye connects the ciliary muscles to the lens?

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Suspensory ligaments

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