questions with verified answers
Actin Ans✓✓✓ "Track" that myosin moves on
Bronchus Ans✓✓✓ Primary airway into lungs
Cross-Bridge Ans✓✓✓ When Myosin and actin bin
Shortens the muscle (contraction)
Uses ATP as a source of energy
Increased Ca@+ concentration activated cross-bridge cycling in all types
of muscles (Ca2 + transient)
Epiglottis Ans✓✓✓ Blocks entrance to either esophagus or trachea
depending on swallowing or breathing
Esophagus Ans✓✓✓ Lead to digestive system
How do bacterial toxins cause paralysis? Ans✓✓✓ • Botulinum toxin:
Prevents muscles form being activated
• Clostridium tetani toxin: Prevents muscles from relaxing
,How does sickle cell disease affect physiology at the level of
hemoglobin (molecule), red blood cells (cells), and blood flow through
capillaries (tissues)? Ans✓✓✓ negatively alters the hemoglobin's cells
shape affecting the cell's ability to change shape as it passes through
the smallest blood vessels, and can shorten the cell's durability and
lifetime, leading to sickle cell anemia
Larynx Ans✓✓✓ Vocal Chords
Myosin Ans✓✓✓ Motor protein of filament
Nasal cavity and oral cavity (pharynx) Ans✓✓✓ Form back of throat
Nostril/mouth Ans✓✓✓ Air enters and exits
Trachea Ans✓✓✓ Lead to lungs
What are common features of all three types of muscle? Ans✓✓✓
Myosin
Actin
Cross- Bridge
, What are inhalation and exhalation? Ans✓✓✓ Inhalation is active
(contraction of respiratory muscles including the diaphragm and rib
muscles that drives the bulk of air into the lungs)
Exhalation is mainly passive
What are physiological examples of why diffusion is generally effective
for transport of small molecules over short distances? Ans✓✓✓
What are the benefits of biomedical research for individuals, families,
and society? Ans✓✓✓ Reducing disease incidence and severity
because of the physical, emotional, and financial toll on those affected
What are the cancers that affect blood cells? Ans✓✓✓ White blood
cell cancers
• Leukemia: high numbers of WBCs
What are the cardiovascular systems main structures and functions?
Ans✓✓✓ Heart
• the pump
Vasculature
• the tubes passing blood through the body