The function of the endocrine system

Question 1

The endocrine system

Answer 1

Network of glands throughout the body that manufacture and secrete chemical messengers (hormones)

Helps to regulate the activity of cells and organs in the body

Question 2

Endocrine glands

Answer 2

Special group of cells in the ES who produce and secrete hormones (chemical messengers)

Timing of hormone release is vital as too much or too little of the hormone at the wrong time can lead to a dysunction of bodily systems

Question 3

Hormones

Answer 3

Chemical messengers

Travel through the bloodstream to target sites in the body and affects target cells.

Target cells respond to the particular hormone as they have receptors for that hormone

Question 4

The thyroid

Answer 4

produces thyroxine

Question 5

Hormone from the thyroid

Answer 5

Thyroxine= controls the metabolic rate and affects growth

Question 6

Adrenal glands

Answer 6

produces adrenaline

Question 7

Pituitary gland

Answer 7

FSH and LH fron the ACTH