Homeostasis
Potpourri
Anatomical Terms (1)
Anatomical Terms (2)
Natural Selection
100
If there is a change outside of the normal range, this process responds and opposes the change to bring the body back within its normal limits.
What is negative feedback
100
This is the body's natural sunscreen.
What is melanin?
100
The anatomical term for a nerve in the head
What is a cranial nerve
100
The stomach and large intestine lie in this body cavity
What is the abdominal or abdominal pelvic cavity?
100
A trait that increases one's chance to survive and reproduce is called.
What is an adaptation?
200
The state that occurs when homeostatic regulation fails.
What is disease
200
When the body begins to produce pepsin to break down proteins in the stomach, more pepsin is produced. This process is an example of what type of homeostasis?
What is negative feedback?
200
This is a term used to describe a shallow cut on the body
What is a superficial cut.
200
This term always describes the location of the ankles relative to the hips.
What is distal?
200
High UV rays lower the amount of this vitamin in the body.
What is folic acid?
300
The most common form of homeostatic regulation.
What is negative feedback
300
When a person blows up a balloon, their blood pH rises. The body responds by changing its breathing rate in this manner.
What is breathing slower to retain more carbon dioxide?
300
The special cavity that the heart lies in.
What is the pericardial cavity
300
This word means from the side of the body, away from the midline
What is lateral?
300
These 2 things acted as selective pressures for the adaptation of straight spines in humans.
What is bipedalism (walking, running, hunting)?
400
When blood sugar is too high, this hormone is released to help bring the blood sugar levels back to normal.
What is Insulin
400
This word means in the tailbone area.
What is caudal?
400
This is a visual plane that bisects the body from left to right
What is a sagittal plane
400
This visual plane bisects the body horizontally (from left to right)
What is a transverse plane?
400
These are 2 reasons that it is more advantageous for lighter-skinned people to live further from the equator.
What are vitamin D production and reduced folic acid from UV rays?
500
The 3 components or steps of negative feedback are _______ & a physiological example of these 3 steps is______
What are (1) receptor, (2) control center & (3) effector.
500
When the blood volume is too low, the body responds to the problem by releasing this hormone, which causes the kidney to retain more water.
What is ADH?
500
These three anatomical terms can be used to describe the location of the pelvis.
What is (1) inferior to the abdomen; (2) superior to the thigh; (3) medial to the shoulder.
500
These three anatomical terms can be used to describe where/how a physician should cut when performing heart surgery.
What is make a deep cut above the pericardial cavity moving from the anterior to the posterior.
500
These are the 4 steps of natural selection
What is (1) variation in traits, (2) some variations are advantageous, (3) individuals without the adaptation do not survive or reproduce as much, (4) individuals with the adaptation survive and reproduce more.
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