PSL 310

The heart has two separate pumps: the left and the right pump. Where does the left side of the heart pump blood to, and where does the right side of the heart pump blood to? - Answer -The left side of the heart pumps blood to the systemically (i.e., body) -Right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs What is oxygenated and deoxygenated blood? - Answer -oxygenated blood is filled with oxygen from the lungs -deoxygenated blood has had most of its oxygen removed and is return...

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what increases stomach emptying - Answer distention of the stomach increased fluidity of chyme what decreases stomach emptying - Answer increased acid in the duodenum increased hypertonicity (osmolarity) of the duodenum increased fats in the duodenum increased distention of the duodenum enterogastrones - Answer hormones from the small intestine CCK and Secretin secretions from the pancreas - Answer amylase, lipase, trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, procarboxypeptid...

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Blood returning to the heart from the lungs A.) enters the right atrium B.) enter the right ventricle C.) enter the left atrium D.) enters the left ventricle E.) travels in the pulmonary artery to the heart - Answer C.) enter the left atrium If the SA node of the heart was damaged so that SA node cells no longer reached threshold A.) the heart could no longer beat because the SA node is the only tissue that can serve as the pacemaker of the heart B.) another autorhythmic tissue in...

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Physiology is the study of - Answer how organisms function Differentiated cells with similar properties aggregate and arrange themselves in various combinations to form __________. Two or more of these arranged in various proportions and patterns, such as sheets, tubes, layers, bundles, and strips, are considered __________. - Answer tissue; organs The skin is part of the organ system called the _______ system. - Answer integumentary The branch of biology that investigate...

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What are the 4 main types of tissue in the human body? - Answer Epithelial, muscle, nerve, connective Levels of organization (smallest to largest)? - Answer atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism All the body systems? - Answer MR DICE RUNS: Muscular, Respiratory, Digestive, Integumentary, Circulatory, Endocrine, Reproductive, Urinary, Nervous, Skeletal Ventral body cavities? - Answer Thoracic: right and left pleural, pericardial cavity Abdomino...

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The GI tract has its own - Answer local nervous system, therefore it doesn't need CNS assistance Why is the GI tract not part of the internal body - Answer because it has harsh conditions that would damage the body, such as low ph or lots or beneficial (when located there) bacteria What is the digestion of food? - Answer the mechanical break down of food into small molecules (absorbable units) In the lumen where is food molecules absorbed? - Answer in the lymph (f...

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What are the three different types of muscle found in the human body? - Answer Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle. How do each differ from one another structurally and functionally? - Answer Skeletal muscle is attached to the skeleton, it is striated, and it is under voluntary control. Cardiac muscle is the muscle of the heart, it is striated, and it is under involuntary control. Smooth muscle is found in places like the GI tract and the vasculature, it is not striated, and it is ...

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conducting - Answer The airways are the _____ zone. respiratory - Answer The alveoli is the _____ zone. alveoli - Answer Exchange of gases with the blood occurs in the _____. intercostal - Answer The _____ muscles are located in between the ribs. pulmonary capillaries - Answer The alveolar sacs are covered with _____. are - Answer The lungs _____ (are/are not) elastic. cell, external - Answer There are two types of respiration; _____ and _____...

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Proteins in plasma - Answer albumin, fibrinogen, globulin globulin - Answer important for transport. Antibodies are these. fibrinogen - Answer blood clotting hematocrit - Answer percentage of the total blood volume taken up or occupied by red blood cells packed down by centrifuging polycythemia - Answer elevated hematocrit that occurs in high altitude. ethrythropoiesis - Answer red blood cell (erythrocyte) production. hemoglobin - Answer 4 pol...

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7 pages

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GI reflexes ______ occur without involvement of the central nervous system (without the central nervous system being involved in the reflex). A.) Can B.) Cannot - Answer A. Can Saliva A.) helps keep teeth clean B.) allows food molecules to stimulate the taste buds C.) contains lysozyme D.) A and B E.) A, B, and C - Answer E.) A, B, and C Digestion of carbohydrates (starches) begin in the A.) small intestine B.) large intestine C.) stomach D.) mouth - Answer D.) m...

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typical synapse - Answer from axon to cell body or dendrites synaptic cleft - Answer space in between neurons presynaptic neuron - Answer conducts impulse to the synapse postsynaptic neuron - Answer conducts impulse away from the synapse synaptic knob - Answer axon terminal of presynaptic neuron with swelling on the end. filled with sacs called synaptic vesicles why is the chemical synapse almost always one way? - Answer it goes from presynaptic to ...

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Thymus Gland - Answer T lymphocytes mature (are processed) in the _____ _____. plasma cells - Answer Which cells secrete antibodies? complement proteins - Answer Due to the activation of _____ _____, opsonization and phagocytosis enhancement and formation of membrane attack complex and death of the invading microbe can occur. antigens - Answer T cell receptors bind to _____ that are bound to cell membrane proteins. cytokines - Answer Helper T cells secrete __...

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The efferent output of the brain and spinal cord is to control.... - Answer all the effectors of the body What one thing does the somatic nervous system control? - Answer Skeletal muscle What are the cells that line your stomach called? - Answer enterocytes interoceptors do what? - Answer -internal receptors -visceral senses (deep) ex: nociceptors sense pain in stomach exteroceptors do what? - Answer sense external environment; general senses are located ...

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How many organ systems comprise the human body? - Answer 11 Explain systems integration using the example of thermoregulation in response to being cold - Answer In response to a cold stimulus, thermoregulation involves multiple body systems working together to conserve and generate heat.Temperature sensors in the skin (integumentary system) and brain(nervous system) detect the drop in temperature and send nerve signalsto the hypothalamus (nervous system), which has the setpoint for ...

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Organelles are not listed as one of the levels of organization of life. Can you put forth a logical argument why they are not part of the hierarchy of life? - Answer Cells are the smallest unit of life. Organelles are small, subunits of cells, so they themselves are not a part of the hierarchy of life In order to understand how a whole organism works, you need to understand each part of it first - this is known as reductionism. Explain the organization of the cardiovascular system using ...

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Homeostasis: Which body system contributes to Homeostasis? A) Urinary B) Cardiovascular C) Both D) Neither - Answer c) Both Homeostasis: Homeostasis is the maintenance of a relatively constant ________ fluid. A) Extracellular B) Intracellular - Answer A) Extracellular Homeostasis: A Negative feedback response _______ the disturbance; A positive feedback response ____ the disturbance. A) Reinforces, Counteracts B) Counteracts; Reinforces - Answer B) Counteracts; Rei...

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