Test questions 3

Question 1

____ neurons carry stimulus towards the CNS while ___ neurons carry impulses away from the CNS

Answer 1

Sensory / motor

Question 2

The action of chewing food is controlled by the ___ division of the nervous system and digestion of food is controlled by the ____ division of the nervous

Answer 2

Somatic / autonomic

Question 3

What is the relation in muscle contraction

Answer 3

Stimulated by neurotransmitters release in synapse, actin and myosin stay the same length, contractions use atp

Question 4

Neuron

Answer 4

Axon sends stimulus to the terminal, terminal releases neurotransmitters, cell body has metabolic activities
Dendrite sends stimulus to the body

Question 5

Transecting injuries to the spinal cord affect

Answer 5

Somatic and autonomic system

Question 6

What muscle tissue types is voluntary

Answer 6

Skeletal

Question 7

For the proper functioning of muscles, the cellular energy of atp is

Answer 7

Needed for both muscle contraction and release

Question 8

What neuromuscular disorders affects both voluntary and involuntary muscles

Answer 8

Muscular dystrophy

Question 9

Female gametes are called __ and contain a set __ of chromosomes

Answer 9

Ova / 23

Question 10

What structures is part of both the male urinary and reproductive system

Answer 10

Urethra

Question 11

Typically, egg and sperm meet for fertilization in

Answer 11

Fallopian tubes

Question 12

Male gametes are produced in the ___ and mature in the ___

Answer 12

Testes / epididymis

Question 13

In the female system, the hormone FSH stimulates __ and LH stimulates

Answer 13

Follicle development / ovulation

Question 14

Meiosis is to gametes as fertilization is to __

Answer 14

Zygote

Question 15

What are parts of the male reproduction system

Answer 15

Urethra, epididymis prostate gland

Question 16

The female gonads are the ___ whose function is to ___

Answer 16

Ovaries / produce eggs and estrogen

Question 17

What does corpus luteum

Answer 17

Produces progesterone

Question 18

Gland secretion of earwax

Answer 18

Ceruminous

Question 19

Gland secretion of sebum oil

Answer 19

Sebaceous gland

Question 20

What does the pituitary gland secrete

Answer 20

FSH & growth hormone

Question 21

What is the gland that secretes sweat

Answer 21

Eccrine

Question 22

What does thermoregulation do to cool the body

Answer 22

Cutaneous vasodilation cools the body by allowing more heat to be released from the blood through the surface of the skin

Question 23

The integumentary system protects the body by ___

Answer 23

Providing a large surface area through which metabolic wastes are excreted

Question 24

What is the apocrine sweat gland

Answer 24

Produces perspiration that has an odor and possible sex

Question 25

What does sebum do

Answer 25

Moisturizes skin and hair

Question 26

Eccrine is ___

Answer 26

Primary perspiration involved in evaporative cooling

Question 27

Thermoregulation

Answer 27

Perspiration allows for evaporative cooling

Question 28

Cutaneous vasoconstriction

Answer 28

Reduces the amount of heat that can leave the body by restricting the blood flow to the skin

Question 29

The epidermis ___

Answer 29

Is a major component of the innate immune system

Question 30

Apocrine glands are located

Answer 30

In the groin and arm pits

Question 31

Hair is located

Answer 31

Produced from the epithelial tissue that dips down into the dermis to form hair follicles

Question 32

Endocrine system

Answer 32

Secretes chemical messengers from ductless gla nds

Question 33

The hormones insulin and glucagon

Answer 33

Work together towards maintenance of homeostatic levels of glucose in the blood

Question 34

What are hormones

Answer 34

Are chemical messages secreted by endocrine glands that travel in the bloodstream to their target site

Question 35

Testosterone

Answer 35

Secreted by the testes and In small quantities in the adrenal glands of men and women

Question 36

What is hyperthyroidism

Answer 36

Is the overproduction of thyroid hormone

Question 37

Positive feedback is present in the ____

Answer 37

Relationship between oxytocin, cervix stretching and uterine contractions

Question 38

Follicle stimulating hormone

Answer 38

secreted by the anterior pituitary gland which promotes the formation of ova or sperm.

Question 39

Insulin

Answer 39

Lowers blood glucose

Question 40

Growth hormone

Answer 40

produced in the anterior pituitary gland to stimulate tissue growth

Question 41

Thymus produces

Answer 41

t-cells

Question 42

what is the tube that delivers urine to the urinary bladder

Answer 42

ureter

Question 43

bowmans capsule

Answer 43

collects filtrate that has left the blood from the glomerulus

Question 44

collecting duct

Answer 44

delivers urine to the renal pelvis

Question 45

glomerulus

Answer 45

passes water glucose wastes and electrolytes from the blood