ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY 1 LAB; MIDTERM PRACTICAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY 1 LAB;
MIDTERM PRACTICAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Adipose Tissue - ANSWERS-Loose connective tissue
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Function - vx


Provides reserve fuel; insulates against heat loss; supports and protects organs.
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Location - Under skin, around kidneys and eyeballs, within abdomen and in breasts
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Mesenchyme - ANSWERS-Embryonic Tissue vx vx vx




Function - Give rise to all other connective tissue types.
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Location - Embryo vx vx




Areolar Tissue - ANSWERS-Loose connective tissue
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Function - vx


Wraps and cushion organs; its macrophages phagocytize bacteria; plays important
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role in inflammation; holds and conveys tissue fluid.
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Location - vx


Widely distributed under epithelia, packages organs, surrounds capillaries.
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Reticular Tissue - ANSWERS-Loose connective Tissue
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Function - vx


Fibers form a soft internal skeleton that supports other cell types including WBC
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Location - Lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen
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Dense Regular Connective Tissue - ANSWERS-Dense connective tissue
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Function - vx


Attaches muscles to bones or to other muscles; attaches bones to bones; withstan
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ds great tensile stress when pulling force is applied in one direction.
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Location - Tendons, most ligaments
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Dense Irregular Tissue - ANSWERS-Dense connective tissue
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Function - vx


Able to withstand tension exerted in many direction; Provides structural strength.
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,Location - Fibrous capsules of organs and joints, dermis of skin.
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Dense Elastic Tissue - ANSWERS-Function -
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Allows recoil of tissue following stretching. Maintains pulsatile flow of blood throug
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h arteries. Aids passive recoil of lungs following inspiration.
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Location - vx


Walls of large arteries; within certain ligaments around vertebral column, within wal
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ls of bronchial tubes.
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Hyaline Cartilidge - ANSWERS-Function -
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Supports and reinforces; Serves as resilient cushion; resists compressive stress
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Location - vx


Forms most of embryonic skeleton; covers ends of long bones in joint cavities; for
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ms costal cartilages of ribs; cartilages of nose, trachea, and larynx.
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Elastic Cartilidge - ANSWERS-Function -
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Maintains shape of a structure while allowing great flexibility.
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Location - Supports external ear, epiglottis.
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Fibrocartilidge - ANSWERS-Function - vx vx vx


Tensile strength with the ability to absorb compressive shock.
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Location - Intervertebral discs, pubic symphysis, discs of knee joint.
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Osseous Tissue - ANSWERS-Function - vx vx vx vx


Bones provide supports and protect; provides levers for muscle to act on; stores c
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alcium and other minerals; bones marrow is site for blood cell formation.
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Location - Bones vx vx




Blood Tissue - ANSWERS-Function -
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Transport of respiratory gases, nutrients, waste.
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Location - contained w/i blood vessels.
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Nervous Tissue - ANSWERS- vx vx vx


Neurons: specialized to receive stimuli and conduct wave excitation/
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impulses to all parts of the body. vx vx vx vx vx vx vx


cell body: contains the nuclei and most of the organelles
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cytoplasmic projections: dendrites & axon vx vx vx vx




Neuroglia/Glial cells: support, protect and bind neurons. vx vx vx vx vx vx




Parts of Neurons - ANSWERS-Cell body
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Dendrites vx


Receptive regions vx


Axons vx

, Nerve impulse generators and transmitters
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Muscle Tissue info - ANSWERS-Specialized to contract.
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Cells tend to be elongated, providing a long axis for contraction.
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Three Basic types: vx vx


Skeletal-striations, voluntary vx


Cardiac-striations, involuntary control, intercalated discs vx vx vx vx


Smooth-involuntary control vx




Skeletal Muscle Tissue - ANSWERS-Function - Voluntary movement; locomotion.
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Location - In skeletal muscles attaches to bones and occasionally skin
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Cardiac Mucle Tissue - ANSWERS-Function -
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Propels blood in circulation; Involuntary control.
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Location - Walls of heart vx vx vx vx




Smooth Muscle Tissue - ANSWERS-Function -
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Propels substances or a baby along internal passageways
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Location - Walls of hollow organs
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Simple Squamous Epithilium - ANSWERS-Function -
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Allows materials to pass by diffusion and filtration in sites where protection is not i
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mportant.
Secretes lubricating substances in serosae.
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Location - Air sacs of lungs, kidney glomeruli, lining of heart, blood vessels
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Simple Cuboidal Epithilium - ANSWERS-Function - Secretion and absorption.
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Location - vx


Kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands, ovary surface.
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Simple Columnar Epithilium - ANSWERS-Function -
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Absorption. Secretion of mucus, enzymes, and other substances. Ciliated type pro
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pels mucus by ciliary actions
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Location - vx


Nonciliated type line digestive tract. Ciliated type lines small bronchi, uterine tubes.
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Pseudostratified Columnar Epithilium - ANSWERS-Function - vx vx vx vx vx


Secretes substances, particularly mucus by ciliary action.
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Location - vx


Nonciliated type in males sperm carrying ducts. Ciliated type lines trachea and mo
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st of respiratory tract.
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