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GMS 6440 Final -mk Questions and Correct
Answers
Skeletal System Ans: Organs: bones, cartilage, bone marrow
Function: provide support and protection, store calcium and
minerals, form blood cells
Muscular System Ans: Organs: muscles, tendons
Function: provide movement, support and protect, generate heat
and maintain body temperate
Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth Muscle Ans: Skeletal - contractile
proteins form alternating patterns of light and dark (striations).
Voluntary movement.
Cardiac - involuntary. Rich in capillaries, connective tissue
supplies blood to the muscle
Smooth - involuntary. Grouped in irregular bundles, found lining
internal organs.
Digestive System Ans: Organs: teeth, tongue, pharynx, esophagus,
stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, pancreas
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Function: process and digest food, absorb and conserve water,
breakdown nutrients, store energy, generate heat
How much intestinal juice is secrete and how much water is
secreted into the feces? Ans: We produce anywhere between 6.5-
8L of liquid a day but only lose 100 ml/day in the feces
- most of the intestinal juice is reabsorbed
Esophagus Ans: expands when food is swallowed and is folded at
rest
In the lining of the stomach's inner layer, it secretes gastric juice
that is made up of _______ to break down food? Ans: mucous,
digestive enzymes, hydrochloric acid (HCl)
The lining of the small intestine is made up of what and what are
its function? Ans: -microvilli and villi
function: increases surface area to digest & reabsorb carbs and
proteins
true or false
intestines are rich in blood vessels. Ans: true
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Cardiovascular System Ans: Organs: heart, blood, vessels
Function:
- distribute blood cells, water, & dissolved materials including
nutrients, waste products, oxygen, & carbon dioxide
- distribute heat and control body temp
What makes up the thoracic cavity? Ans: lungs and heart
Pathway of Circulatory System Ans: Deoxygenated Blood - Right
Atrium - tricuspid valve - Right Ventricle - pulmonary artery -
Lungs - Oxygenated Blood - pulmonary vein - Left Atrium - mitral
valve - Left Ventricle - Aorta - artery - arteriole - capillary - venule -
vein - vena cava
Normal movement of blood flow in the heart is: Ans: Right
atrium-right ventricle-lung-left atrium-left ventricle.
EKGs detect Ans: Heart attacks and abnormal cardiac rhythm
Reduced coronary artery blood flow can cause Ans: heart attack
-angina pectoris
-myocardial infarction
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Respiratory System Ans: Organs: nasal cavity, sinuses, larynx,
trachea, bronchi, lungs, alveoli
Function:
-delivers air to alveoli
-provide O2 to blood
-remove CO2 from blood, sound
-produces sound for communication (larynx)
Function of Alveoli Ans: -surrounded by capillaries
-exchange O2 & CO2
How many lobes to the right and left lungs have? Ans: Right has 3
and the left has 2
We cannot hold a breath for long. Why? Ans: - brain controls
respirations
- CO2 & diaphragm levels take over & override voluntary breathing
& involuntary breathing takes over
Renal and Urinary System Ans: Organs: kidney, ureter, bladder
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GMS 6440 Final -mk Questions and Correct
Answers
Skeletal System Ans: Organs: bones, cartilage, bone marrow
Function: provide support and protection, store calcium and
minerals, form blood cells
Muscular System Ans: Organs: muscles, tendons
Function: provide movement, support and protect, generate heat
and maintain body temperate
Skeletal, Cardiac, Smooth Muscle Ans: Skeletal - contractile
proteins form alternating patterns of light and dark (striations).
Voluntary movement.
Cardiac - involuntary. Rich in capillaries, connective tissue
supplies blood to the muscle
Smooth - involuntary. Grouped in irregular bundles, found lining
internal organs.
Digestive System Ans: Organs: teeth, tongue, pharynx, esophagus,
stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, pancreas
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Function: process and digest food, absorb and conserve water,
breakdown nutrients, store energy, generate heat
How much intestinal juice is secrete and how much water is
secreted into the feces? Ans: We produce anywhere between 6.5-
8L of liquid a day but only lose 100 ml/day in the feces
- most of the intestinal juice is reabsorbed
Esophagus Ans: expands when food is swallowed and is folded at
rest
In the lining of the stomach's inner layer, it secretes gastric juice
that is made up of _______ to break down food? Ans: mucous,
digestive enzymes, hydrochloric acid (HCl)
The lining of the small intestine is made up of what and what are
its function? Ans: -microvilli and villi
function: increases surface area to digest & reabsorb carbs and
proteins
true or false
intestines are rich in blood vessels. Ans: true
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Cardiovascular System Ans: Organs: heart, blood, vessels
Function:
- distribute blood cells, water, & dissolved materials including
nutrients, waste products, oxygen, & carbon dioxide
- distribute heat and control body temp
What makes up the thoracic cavity? Ans: lungs and heart
Pathway of Circulatory System Ans: Deoxygenated Blood - Right
Atrium - tricuspid valve - Right Ventricle - pulmonary artery -
Lungs - Oxygenated Blood - pulmonary vein - Left Atrium - mitral
valve - Left Ventricle - Aorta - artery - arteriole - capillary - venule -
vein - vena cava
Normal movement of blood flow in the heart is: Ans: Right
atrium-right ventricle-lung-left atrium-left ventricle.
EKGs detect Ans: Heart attacks and abnormal cardiac rhythm
Reduced coronary artery blood flow can cause Ans: heart attack
-angina pectoris
-myocardial infarction
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Respiratory System Ans: Organs: nasal cavity, sinuses, larynx,
trachea, bronchi, lungs, alveoli
Function:
-delivers air to alveoli
-provide O2 to blood
-remove CO2 from blood, sound
-produces sound for communication (larynx)
Function of Alveoli Ans: -surrounded by capillaries
-exchange O2 & CO2
How many lobes to the right and left lungs have? Ans: Right has 3
and the left has 2
We cannot hold a breath for long. Why? Ans: - brain controls
respirations
- CO2 & diaphragm levels take over & override voluntary breathing
& involuntary breathing takes over
Renal and Urinary System Ans: Organs: kidney, ureter, bladder
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