Digestion
Which macromolecule is digested in the mouth?
Carbs
Which muscles contract during inhalation?
Diaphragm and external intercostals
What are the 2 parts of human circulatory system?
Pulmonary and systemic
What is the outer part of the kidney?
Renal cortex
What must be reached for an action potential to occur?
Threshold
What is stored in the gallbladder?
Bile
The increase in the ability of hemoglobin to bind to oxygen with each additional oxygen that binds is called what?
Cooperative binding
What medical facility was founded in Rochester, Minnesota, in the late 1800s?
Mayo Clinic
What kind of nitrogenous waste is excreted by humans?
Urea
What maintains resting potential?
Sodium-potassium pump
What vitamin deficiency causes Rickets?
Vitamin D
What is the shift in the oxygen dissociation curve due to a change in blood pH called?
Bohr shift
What is the pacemaker of the heart?
SA node
Where are glucose and amino acids reabsorbed?
Convoluted tubules
Anubis, the God of Death, in ancient Egypt had the head of a what?
What is the movement of a food bolus through the digestive system called?
Peristalsis
What kind of cans did Andy Warhol famously paint?
Campbell's soup cans
What keeps blood from flowing from the aorta into the left ventricle?
Aortic semilunar valve
What city hosted the 2016 Summer Olympic Games?
Rio de Janeiro
What kind of channels are opened by neurotransmitters?
Ligand gated
What bacteria causes ulcers?
H. pylori
Breakdown of alveoli walls resulting in a large hollow spaces is characteristic of what condition?
Emphysema
What causes the first (lub) heart sound?
Closing of the AV valves
What is the excretory system of insects called?
Malpighian tubules
An action potential jumping between the gaps of the myelin sheath is called what?
Saltatory conduction