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Skeletal System - correct answer✔✔Organs: bones, cartilage, bone marrow

Function: provide support and protection, store calcium and minerals, form blood cells



Muscular System - correct answer✔✔Organs: muscles, tendons

Function: provide movement, support and protect, generate heat and maintain body temperate



Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth Muscle - correct answer✔✔Skeletal - contractile proteins form
alternating patterns of light and dark (striations). Voluntary movement.

Cardiac - involuntary. Rich in capillaries, connective tissue supplies blood to the muscle

Smooth - involuntary. Grouped in irregular bundles, found lining internal organs.



Digestive System - correct answer✔✔Organs: teeth, tongue, pharynx, esophagus, stomach,
intestines, liver, gallbladder, pancreas

Function: process and digest food, absorb and conserve water, breakdown nutrients, store
energy, generate heat



How much intestinal juice is secrete and how much water is secreted into the feces? - correct
answer✔✔We produce anywhere between 6.5-8L of liquid a day but only lose 100 ml/day.



Cardiovascular System - correct answer✔✔Organs: heart, blood, vessels

Function: distribute nutrients and stuff, distribute heat and control body temp

,Pathway of Circulatory System - correct answer✔✔Deoxygenated Blood - Right Atrium -
tricuspid valve - Right Ventricle - pulmonary artery - Lungs - Oxygenated Blood - pulmonary vein
- Left Atrium - mitral valve - Left Ventricle - Aorta - artery - arteriole - capillary - venule - vein -
vena cava



Respiratory System - correct answer✔✔Organs: nasal cavity, sinuses, larynx, trachea, bronchi,
lungs, alveoli

Function: deliver air to alveoli, provide O2 to blood, remove CO2 from blood, sound



How many lobes to the right and left lungs have? - correct answer✔✔Right has 3 and the left
has 2



Renal and Urinary System - correct answer✔✔Organs: kidney, ureter, bladder

Function: excrete waste from blood, control water balance, storing urine, regulate blood [ ] and
pH



How much liquid do we filter a day and how much urine is usually produced? - correct
answer✔✔We filter 170 L/day while only producing 1.5 L of urine.



Endocrine System - correct answer✔✔Organs: pituitary gland, thyroid gland, pancreas, adrenal
glands, gonads, etc

Function: direct long-term changes in systems, metabolic activity, development



Major hormones and their functions - correct answer✔✔GH: pituitary. stimulates growth.

TH: thyroid. maintains metabolism, regulates BP, development

Cortisol: adrenal gland. Stress resistance and fat mobilization

Insulin: pancreas. Lowers blood sugar

Gastrin: stomach. Production of HCl

Erythropoietin: kidney. RBC production

, Leptin: adipose. suppresses appetite.



Nervous System - correct answer✔✔Organs: Brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves

Function: provide and interpret sensory info, coordinate activities of other systems



Female Reproductive System - correct answer✔✔Organs: ovaries, uterus, vagina, mammary
glands

function: produce female sex cells, support embryo, provide milk



Menstrual cycle - correct answer✔✔ovulation occurs around 14 days into cycle when LH surge
triggers release of single mature egg from ovary to go through fallopian tubes to the uterus. If
unfertilized, it is discharged and endometrium is shed (menstruation).



Distribution of Major Electrolytes - correct answer✔✔Na+: 10:1 outside

K+: 25:1 inside

Cl-: 5:1 outside

HCO3-: 2:1 outside

Ca2+: micromolar inside. Thousand-fold greater outside.

Organic anions: 15:1 inside



channels vs transporters - correct answer✔✔channels move water or ions and electrode

transporters are solute carriers or pumps



Permeability for passive diffusion - correct answer✔✔-Ions (K+, Na+, HCO-, Ca2+, Cl-) do not
cross the membrane

-hydrophobic molecules (O2, N2, CO2) pass freely

-small, uncharged, polar molecules like glycerol can move to a small extent

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