Animal Body Systems 1
body system providing locomotion for the animal to find feedstuff
What is Muscular System?
These are the basic structural and functional units of the animal body.
What are cells?
When blood sugar is low, this is released which allows the body to uptake more sugar and increases blood sugar levels
What is Glucagon?
This body system is responsible for shivering when an animal regulates body temperature
What is Muscular?
the highest point on most four-legged animals
This and potassium are the two main electrolytes that need to be balanced through the urinary system.
What is Sodium?
The types of cells that are capable of intercellular communication?
What are nerve cells?
This body system is responsible for transporting nutrients for cellular respiration during growth.
What is the circulatory system?
The hormone vasopressin is released from the anterior pituitary and targets the _________
What are Kidneys?
Latin; refers to tail
What is caudal
Danny is studying growth in animals. He is studying the gland which affects several receptors in the body which control growth and directly influence bone growth.
What is Thyroid?
This tissue supports all other types of tissue in the body and surrounds organs or other body parts?
What is Connective Tissue?
This mineral is very important to thyroid function, as low levels in the body can reduce thyroid function.
What is Iodine?
The __________ is the main organ responsible for water absorption.
What is the Large Intestine?
What is dermis?
The anterior pituitary can release a hormone called __________, which can either conserve or excrete extra water from the body.
What is Vasopressin?
Name all of the nucleotide bases.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine?
Name the two hormones released from the pituitary
What are FSH and LH?
This system is responsible for fetal growth over the specific gestation period
What is the reproductive system
The most common place to put a tag to identify the animal
What is auricle?
Name all of the body systems involved in temperature regulation.
What are Circulatory, Integumentary, Muscular, and Respiratory?
This contains genetic information for a particular amino acid
What is a Codon?
This is released as pressure increases upon the cervix
What is Oxytocin
Name all the body systems involved in digestion
What are
Circulatory system
Endocrine system
Immune system
Muscular system
Name all the places keratin is found