EXAM SET 2026 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
⫸ Proteins - Basic material and building blocks for our body
⫸ Amino acids - building blocks of proteins
Form peptides
⫸ Peptides - strain of amino acids
form proteins
⫸ Appendages of the skin - Hair, nails, sweat glands, and oil glands
⫸ Healthy skin - Slightly moist, soft, smooth, and somewhat acidic
⫸ Six primary functions of the skin - Protection, sensation, heat
regulation, excretion, secretion, absorption
⫸ Sebum - oily substance protecting the surface of the skin
slows down the evaporation of water
⫸ Hydrolipidic - An oil-water balance that protects the skin's surface.
, ⫸ Barrier function - Skins mechanism that protects us from irritation
and intercellular TEWL
⫸ Transepidermal water loss - Caused by evaporation on the skins
surface
⫸ Intercellular matrix - Fluid found between epidermal cells
⫸ Melanocytes - cells that produce melanin
⫸ Melanosomes - Carry the pigment granules that contain Melanin
⫸ Epidermal growth factor - Stimulates cells to reproduce and heal.
⫸ Fibroblasts - Cell stimulators
⫸ Heat regulation - When the body maintains thermoregulation through
evaporation, perspiration, radiation, and insulation
⫸ Arrector pili muscles - Attached to hair follicles and contract to cause
goosebumps