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Study of the digestive tract and the diagnosis and treatment of its disorders - Answer Gastroenterology Five stages of digestion - Answer Ingestion, secretion, propulsion, digestion, absorption, and defecation The physical breakdown of food into smaller particles - Answer Mechanical digestion A series of hydrolysis reactions that breaks dietary macromolecules into their monomers (residues) - Answer Chemical digestion Polysaccharides are broken down into ____, proteins int...

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Mitosis produces cells that are ___________; meiosis produces cells that are ___________. a) diploid; haploid b) diploid; diploid c) haploid; haploid d) haploid; diploid - Answer a) diploid; haploid The fusion of sperm and egg is known as: a) mitosis. b) meiosis. c) fertilization. d) cleavage. - Answer c) fertilization Upon leaving the testes, sperm enters the ________ for functional maturation. a) prostate b) ductus deferens c) epididymis d) seminiferous tubules - ...

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What structures in the glomerular capsule interdigitate to form filtration slits? - Answer Podocytes Which of the following is NOT a component of the urinary tract? - Answer Kidneys Which of the following is NOT part of the urinary system? - Answer Spleen The right kidney sits ________ to the left kidney due to the position of the liver. - Answer Inferior Urine is transported from kidney to the urinary bladder by the: - Answer Ureter Erythropoietin is produced by th...

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functions of the organ system - Answer - O2 and CO2 exchange between blood and air - speech and other vocalizations - smell - pH of body fluids - affects blood pressure - promotes the flow of lymph and venous blood - helps expel abdominal contents principal organs of the respiratory system - Answer nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs functions of the lymphatic system - Answer - fluid recovery - immunity - lipid absorption direction of lymph flow - Answer ...

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Blood - Answer A liquid connective tissue consisting of cells and extracellular matrix Plasma - Answer Fluid matrix of blood (clear, light yellow fluid) Formed elements - Answer Blood cells and cell fragments (Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) Erythrocytes - Answer red blood cells (RBCs)- oxygen carriers Platelets - Answer Blood clotting. Cell fragments from special cell in bone marrow Leukocytes - Answer White blood cells (WBCs) Five types divided into ...

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adults have __________ L of blood - Answer 4-6 L blood - Answer a liquid connective tissue consisting of cells and extracellular matrix plasma - Answer matrix of blood; clear, light yellow fluid formed elements of blood - Answer blood cells and cell fragments; red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets seven kinds of formed elements - Answer erythrocytes platelets neutrophils eosinophils basophils lymphocytes monocytes erythrocytes - Answer red bloo...

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Spermatogenesis - Answer Damage to the sustentacular cells of the testes could impair what? Anaphase 1 - Answer During what phase are homologous chromosomes separated from one another and pulled toward opposite poles of the cell by spindle fibers? Vagina (clitoris, labia minora and mons pubis are all correct) - Answer Which of the following is NOT part of the female's external genitalia? Gastrulation - Answer Which of the following steps must occur first during the embryo...

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Nervous system communicates both ____ and ____ - Answer Electrically and chemically The ____ system is involved in adaptation to stress - Answer Endocrine The ___ system responds quickly, and stops response quickly - Answer Nervous The ____ system responds slower, and effects may continue for weeks - Answer Endocrine Nervous system response ____ with adaptation to long-term stimuli - Answer Declines The nervous system adapts - Answer Quickly Endocrine system r...

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