HPNU 3060: Chapter 6 Review Questions with Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy

ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED


HPNU 3060: Chapter 6 Review Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers for
Accuracy



Question: What are the 2 Major Types of Cell-to-Cell
Communication?
Answer: Local Communication
Long-Distance Communication


Question: What are the 3 Forms of Local Communication?
Answer: Gap Junctions
Contact-Dependent Signals
Paracine and Autocrine Signals


Question: What are Gap Junctions?
Answer: Direct Cytoplasmic Connections between Adjacent
Cells


Question: True or False:
Gap Junctions Communicate with Both Chemical and Electrical
Signals
Answer: True

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Question: When Gap Junctions are Open...
Answer: Connected Cells Function Like a Single Cell


Question: What are Contact-Dependent Signals?
Answer: Required Interactions between the Membrane
Molecules of Two Cells, where One Cell has a Signal and the
Other a Receptor


Question: What are Autocrine Signals?
Answer: Chemical Signals that Act on the Same Cell that
Secreted Them


Question: What are Paracrine Signals?
Answer: Chemical Signals that are Secreted by One Cell and Act
on Adjacent Cells


Question: What are the Two Systems of Long-Distance
Communication?
Answer: Endocrine System
Nervous System


Question: What Type of Signal does the Endocrine System
Communicate with?
Answer: Chemical Signals