This is the special junction between axon terminals and a target cell where an impulse is transmitted.
What is a synapse?
100
This is a category of hormones that are water soluble, are faster acting and bind to receptors on target cell membranes (work through intermediate mechanisms).
What are non-steroidal hormones?
100
This is where fertilization usually takes place (where the sperm and egg meet in the reproductive tract).
What is the oviduct?
100
This is what should make up about 45-65% of a person's daily diet.
What are carbohydrates?
100
This term means to oppose each other and comes into play a lot in biological mechanisms.
What is antagonistic?
200
This bridges the left and right cerebral hemispheres in the brain and is a part of the forebrain.
What is the corpus callosum?
200
This is the homeostatic control center of the brain that links the nervous and endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This is approximately what day ovulation takes place in an average 28 day menstrual cycle.
What is day 14?
200
90-95% of food is absorbed in this organ.
What is the small intestine?
200
This organ has an endocrine function in the digestive system as well an endocrine function in controlling blood sugar levels.
What is the pancreas?
300
The autonomic division is further divided into these two divisions which are responsible for flight or fight responses.
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions?
300
These are the names of the hormones produced by the POSTERIOR pituitary gland. (Kind of a stretch for jeopardy... sorry!)
What are ADH and Oxytocin?
300
These are the three accessory glands in the male reproductive system. (Sorry... not totally jeopardy format - I'm not so good at this!)
What are seminal vesicles, the prostate gland and the bulbourethral gland?
300
These are the three accessory organs of the digestive system.
What are the pancreas, liver and gallbladder?
300
This hormone is produced by the anterior pituitary and stimulates milk production.
What is prolactin?
400
The term for a membrane potential becoming more positive, speeding up or increasing.
What is depolarizing?
400
This is a disease where individuals are insulin-dependent.
What is Type I Diabetes?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Picture question...
:)
400
These two types of nutrients are breakdown products and are absorbed through active transport*.
What are amino acids and monosaccharides?
400
Only certain cells have these specialized proteins that accept a specific hormone.
What are receptors (receptor proteins)?
500
The leaping pattern of action potential conduction.
What is saltatory conduction?
500
(Sorry not Jeopardy format...) But describe how the negative feedback loop works with the hormone calcitonin
(Hint: you need to know what calcitonin does to which organ(s)/tissue(s) and where it is produced from to answer this!)
:)
500
NOT Jeopardy format... but name 5 STIs/STDs we discussed in class and one thing we learned about each of them.
!
500
This is a watery mixture of partially digested food and gastric juice found in the stomach.
What is chyme?
500
We've discussed a lot of disorders these sections... 500 points TO ANY TEAM who can name 5 disorders - including what section they relate to and describe them. All teams can go, but no repeating :)