Category 1
This organ is responsible for the production of bile, the processing of nutrients to the blood, stores glucose, and produces blood proteins.
What is the liver?
This terms means the breaking down of fat.
What is lipolysis?
These are the functions of the digestive system.
For food particles to pass through the mucosa, this process is required.
What is chemical digestion?
These myocites move involuntarily, responsible for the blood mobilization.
What are cardia myocytes?
What is myoglobin?
These valves lead to the arteries.
What are the semilunar valves?
These three glands can be found in the mouth.
What are the parotoid, submandibular, and the sublingual glands?
These serve to emulsify lipids.
What are bile salts?
This term describes non-functional organs that are inherited from evolutionary ancestors.
What are vestigial structures?
This neutrotransmitter triggers elctrical charges thoughout the sarcolemma that sends an activiation signal for calcium.
What is acetylcholine?
What are ATP, Creatine Phosphate, Glucose, and lipolysis?
The purpose of this organ is to connect bone to muscle.
What is a tendon?
This organ pushes food to the esophagus involuntarily.
What is the pharynx?
This process describes energy production in the absence of oxygen.
What is fermentation?
What are the closing of the aortic and pulmonary valves?
This term describes the lipid buildup that results in weaknesses and breakdowns of the muscles.
Chewing is a form of this kind of digestion.
What is mechanical chewing?
This toxin-producing bacteria causes severe muscle spasms.
These 4 chemicals can be found in the stomach.
What are the IL Gastric juices, hydrochloric acid, pepsin, and mucus?
There one a category of myocites that are fast acting, typically responsible for motion (e.g., weight lifting muscles)
What are skeletal/striated myocytes?
This term describes the hardening of arteries. Bonus if you can describe the two typical causes.
What is the Arteriosclerosis?
This organ stores bile.
What is the gall bladder?
These are essential lipids that the body is unable to produce or synthesize.
What are essential fatty acids?
There are 12 of this type of tooth in an average human mouth.
What are molars?