BIOL251 W1 Quiz 1 for American Public Students

1. Question: Which of the following is an anterior pituitary hormone? 2. Question: The adrenal glands are wedges of glandular and neuroendocrine tissue adhering to the top of the _________. 3. Question: In contrast to the nervous system, the endocrine system uses only one method of communication: _________ signaling. 4. Question: How can the anterior part of the pituitary gland control the secretion of thyroid hormones? 5. Question: The gonads produce what class of hormones? 6. Question: The function of the placental hormone human placental lactogen (hPL) is to ________. 7. Question: The parathyroid glands are small structures located on the posterior thyroid gland that produce parathyroid hormone (PTH), which regulates blood ________ levels. 8. Question: Stage one of GAS is called the alarm reaction. This is short-term stress, the fight-or-flight response, mediated by the hormones __________ and ___________from the adrenal medulla. 9. Question: The primary hormones produced by the ovaries are ________. 10. Question: The alpha cells of the pancreatic islets produce and secrete _________. 11. Question: The hypothalamus is functionally and anatomically connected to the posterior pituitary lobe by a bridge of ________. 12. Question: What secretory cell type is found in the adrenal medulla? 13. Question: The two major organ systems that participate in relatively "long distance" communication in order to control and coordinate actions in the body are the _______ system and the _______ system. 14. Question: The beta cells of the pancreatic islets produce and secrete __________. 15. Question: Which of the following can result from hyperparathyroidism? 16. Question: Which of the following is the epithelial tissue that lines the interior of blood vessels? 17. Question: _________ muscle is not voluntary and is responsible for the involuntary movements of internal organs such as the esophagus. 18. Question: What neurotransmitter is released at the neuromuscular junction? 19. Question: The resting membrane potential is primarily due to the differences in concentrations of which ions? 20. Question: What is the fibrocartilage padding in between the vertebrae called? 21. Question: Tendons are a type of fibrous connective tissue. What do tendons connect to bones? 22. Question: In the Sliding Filament Model of Contraction, actin and myosin filaments slide past one another using what as an energy source? 23. Question: All but which of the following are characteristics of aerobic respiration? 24. Question: All of the genetic material inside a cell is located in the ________. 25. Question: The cell membrane (also called the plasma membrane) contains which of the following molecules?