Special Senses
Endocrine
Digestive
Blood
Reproductive
100
the two types of photoreceptors and their function
What are rods (dim light vision) and cones ( high light/ definition and color vision)
100
the site of estrogen and progesterone manufacture
What is ovary?
100
helps keep food from entering the trachea
What is the epiglottis?
100
The formed elements of blood that have immune functions
What are leukocytes?
100
characteristics of mature sperm
200
regulates amount of light that enters the eye
What is the iris?
200
site of testosterone manufacture
What are the testes?
200
The first stage of digestion
What is the chemical and mechanical digestion of the mouth?
200
a function of blood
200
determines the sex of the child
What is the sex chromosome carried by the sperm?
300
the part of the ear responsible for equilibrium
What is the vestibular apparatus or semicircular canals?
300
This hormone is responsible for the positive feedback mechanism of childbirth labor
What is oxytocin?
300
Possible stimulus for erythropoiesis
What is low blood oxygen?
300
characteristics of red blood cells
What are biconcave, no nucleus, short life span
300
What is the site of fertilization?
What are the fallopian tubes?
400
no photoreceptors
What is the blind spot?
400
The major targets of growth hormone
What are bones and skeletal muscle?
400
major site of nutrient absorption
What is the small intestine?
400
attaches directly to oxygen molecules within the blood stream
What is hemoglobin?
400
causes secondary sex characteristics to develop
estrogen and testosterone
500
The order in which light passes through the major structures of the eye
cornea, aqueous humor, lens, vitrous humor.
500
The mechanism by which the endocrine system controls the body
What are hormones?
500
the vestigial organ of the digestive system
What is the appendix?
500
causes sickling of red blood cells
What is low blood oxygen?
500
a fertilized egg
What is a zygote?
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