The Scope of Anatomy and Physiology
Human Origins and Adaptations
Human Origins and Adaptations cont.
Human Function
Human Function cont.
100
When you are listening to lungs sounds on a patient, you are performing what type of assessment?
What is auscultation?
100
States that all functions of the body are interpreted as the effects of cellular activity
What is cell theory?
100
standing and walking on two legs
What is bipedalism?
100
the sum of all internal chemical change
What is metabolism?
100
carries out the corrective action
What is the effector?
200
If you are examining parts of a cadaver and don't need a microscope, it is called ________ anatomy.
What is gross?
200
Explains how evolution works; ex-better camouflage, disease resistance
What is natural selection?
200
So primates could distinguish ripe fruit from the unripe, they developed what?
What is color vision?
200
mechanism that keeps a variable close to its set point
What is negative feedback?
200
A self-amplifying change that occurs in blood clotting and nerve signals.
What is positive feedback?
300
When you are looking at structural characteristics on different species noting similarities and differences it is called ________ _________.
What is comparative anatomy?
300
Changes at the DNA level of a population of organisms.
What is evolution?
300
the treetop habitat
What is arboreal?
300
The set point for human body temperature is?
What is 37 degrees C?
300
What center tells your heart to speed up if blood pressure is low?
What is cardiac center?
400
What is the basis for the development of new drugs and medical procedures?
What is comparative physiology?
400
What is it called when an organisms changes both its physical appearance and behavior due to the environment?
What are adaptations?
400
________ thumbs made the hands __________.
What is opposable; prehensible?
400
If your body temperature decreases, your blood vessels will respond by?
What is vasoconstriction (keeping the heat)?
400
What is the mechanism in the body that maintains stable internal conditions?
What is homeostasis?
500
_________ is the study of form; ________ is the study of function.
What is anatomy; physiology?
500
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an example of?
What is evolution?
500
BONUS!! What is one explanation why human families develope strong ties?
Because infants are born so helpless and have to depend on their parents for survival.
500
the mechanism that processes the information and makes a decision
What is the integrating center?
500
What receptors detect changes in blood pressure?
What is cardiac stretch receptors ot baroreceptors?
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