Cranial Skull
Facial Skull
Cellular Communication
Final Jeopardy
100
This bone bears a small opening for hearing
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What is temporal bone?
100
The ____ is shown in purple and the ____ is shown in red. These bones both contain teeth
What are the maxilla and the mandible?
100
This system represents the fastest means of intercellular communication in the human body
What is the nervous system?
100
Differences between nervous and endocrine signalling
Endocrine uses hormones, nervous uses neurotransmitters. Nervous responds more quickly to stimuli
200
These bones make up the skull cap
What are the frontal, occipital and parietal bones?
200
This bone shown in teal connects to the facial skull, is also called the "cheek bone"
What is the zygomatic bone?
200
All or nothing: action potential will not occur unless this is reached
What is threshold?
300
This bone is seen in hot pink in this photo
What is the sphenoid bone?
300
Shown in teal, this bone supports the structure of the nasal passages and face
What is the vomer?
300
The endocrine system reaches all body cells by using these for communication
What are hormones?
400
Located in the eye socket, the following picture shows this bone in white
What is the ethmoid bone?
400
Located in the eye socket, these bones are shown in lime green
What are the lacrimal bones?
400
Extracellular or intercellular chemicals or events that provoke responses in cells; can be inside or outside the body
What is a stimulus?
500
Neurotransmitters can diffuse out of the synaptic cleft, be degraded by various enzymes, or specific transport proteins can allow the cell to reabsorb and repackage them
What are the 3 ways chemical signaling ends?