The Lobes
The lobe that deals with movement and thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
What does the medulla do?
The medulla deals with main body functions like the heart beating and breathing.
What is the part of the endocrine system that is indirectly in control of the system?
The hypothalamus.
Transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring
The lobe that deals with feeling.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Surface of the cerebrum and outer layer of the brain, deals with thinking memory language emotions complex motor functions and perception
What part tells the other parts besides the hypothalamus what to do?
The pituitary gland.
What two types of traits are passed down?
Physical and psychological.
The lobe that deals with sound.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
It connects the two hemispheres of the brain, helps connect two to make sure they can send their messages to them
What part deals with metabolism?
The thyroid.
What would nature heredity mean?
What people inherit
What is the Occipital Lobe?
It does higher brain functions, inner layer and less important than the cerebral cortex.
What does the parathyroid do?
Controls levels of calcium and phosphorous helping with bone health.
What would nurture be in heredity?
Environmental factors making people the way they are.
Where is each lobe Located?
Frontal lobe- Behind the forehead.
Parietal lobe- The middle top of the head.
Occipital lobe- The back top of the head.
Temporal lobe- In the lower middle straight in from the ears.
Name two things the Hypothalamus does.
What receives the sensory stimulation and What does all behaviors like hunger, temperature, and sleepiness.
It produces melatonin helping with sleep.
What are chromosomes?
Threadlike structures composed of DNA