Skeletal System
Nervous System
Chemical and visual communication
Forensic Identification
Directional and Regional Terms
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100
Another word for phalanges.
What are fingers?
100
This lobe is responsible for long-term memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
100
These glands, lacking ducts release hormones directly to the blood stream.
What are endocrine glands?
100
The most important characteristic for determining the race of skeletal remains is the __________.
What is the nasal index?
100
Your Pinkie toe is _______ to your big toe.
What is lateral?
100
The lumps and grooves in a brain, believed to be linked to speed of brain functions.
What are the gyrus and sulcus?
200
The section of the vertebral column above the coccyx.
What is the sacrum?
200
This part of the brain is responsible for balance.
What is the cerebellum?
200
This gland is responsible for controlling metabolism.
What is the Thyroid?
200
Which human bone is the best indicator of the height of that human?
What is the femur?
200
Your carpals are _______ to your antecubital.
What is distal?
200
Neurological disorder characterized by a break down in the myelin sheath causing poor communication between neurons.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
300
The bone on the posterior surface of the skull.
What is the occipital bone?
300
This part of the brain stem controls sleep.
What is the pons?
300
These structures found in the eye are responsible for color vision.
What are cones?
300
Age in a young skeleton is determined by looking mostly at ___________________. Ages (3-25).
What is the joining of epiphyseal junctions.
300
Your umbilical is ________ to your sternum.
What is inferior?
300
These nerve cells are unipolar.
What are sensory neurons?
400
The ribs all emerge from this region of the body.
What is the thoracic region?
400
This part of the brain controls speech.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
This part of the eye controls how much light gets in, opening and close as needed to let in more or less light.
What is the iris?
400
When looking at DNA evidence, what is used to cut the DNA into RFLP's?
What are restriction enzymes?
400
Your spinal column is on either your ___________ or ______________ surface, but on your cat, its only on the ___________ surface.
What is Dorsal or posterior, and dorsal?
400
These ions rush into a neuron cell during depolarization causing the interior of the cell to become more positive than the exterior.
What are sodium ions?
500
The sternum, ribs, skull, and vertebrae are all part of this skeleton.
What is the axial skeleton?
500
The gap between neurons filled with neurotransmitters.
What is the synapse?
500
This condition causes images to focus in front of the retina of the eye and results in nearsightedness.
For an extra 100 points....what type of lens will correct this?
What is myopia?
What is convex?
500
Biometrics can be used to ensure proper identification of a person that has specific privileges. Name 4 methods of doing so.
Finger prints, retina scan, iris scan, facial scan, vein geometry, hand writing/ signature, voice recognition.
500
Correctly tell me where the identifying white spot is on this porbegle shark.
What is on the posterior edge of the dorsal fin proximal to the body?
500
These enzymes are responsible for digesting carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
What are amylase, protease and lipase?