Week 2: Epithelial Cells

Question 1

What are the two types of glands?

Answer 1

Exocrine and endocrine

Question 2

T/F: Endocrine glands secrete its contents outside the body

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What are the three types of exocrine gland?

Answer 3

Serous, mucous, and mixed

Question 4

What are the mechanism of secretion?

Answer 4

Merocrine, apocrine, and holocrine

Question 5

T/F: Apocrine glands are found mostly in mammary glands.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

T/F: Sebaceous glands are mostly part of merocrine secretions.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

T/F: In merocrine secretions, secretions are transported to the apical portion of the epithelial cell via vesicles.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

T/F: Vesicles are not a bubble.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

T/F: Merocrine secretions are a form of endocytosis.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

T/F: Cells burst apart in holocrine secretions.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

T/F: Vesicles are used in apocrine secretions.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

T/F: Squamous means layered.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

T/F: Simple Squamous means single flat.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

T/F: To classify a stratified squamous epithelial cell, you must look at the outermost surface.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What does self-perpetuated mean?

Answer 15

Cells are programmed to divide a fixed number of times before it dies