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What does ATP stand for?
Adenosine triphosphate
100
The gap located between the end of a neuron and a muscle
Synaptic Cleft
100
The ability to respond to stimuli is called ____________
Irritability
100
The eye includes _________ percent of all sensory receptors in the body
70
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What is the role of antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
Retain water
200
The simplest method of making ATP, lasts about 20 seconds, is what?
Direct Phosphorylation
200
The muscle that opposes the prime mover
Antagonist
200
One of the functions of cerebrospinal fluid is to
Provide a watery cushion to protect the brain
200
The loss of scent detection for a certain smell after smelling it for a long time is _______.
olfactory fatigue
200
In the case of negative feedback, too little of a certain type of hormone in the blood stream would cause ______________.
An increase in the production of that hormone
300
What are 2 characteristics of smooth muscle?
Non-striated, uninucleate, spindle-shaped, involuntary
300
Put the following muscle layer coverings in order from inside to outside: Perimysium, Endomysium, Epimysium
Endo, peri, epi
300
The blood brain barrier allows what two things to cross it?
Respiratory gases, lipid-soluble
300
While reading the Snellen Eye Test Chart, you could read the line with a 15 next to it. (It was one line below the line with a 20 next to it). This means that…..
From 20 feet, you can see the chart as well as someone with normal vision from 15 feet
300
The three chemical classifications of hormones are _________________.
Protein/peptide, lipid/phospholipid, and monoamines (aromatic)
400
The strength of a muscle contraction is dependent on ____________.
Number of muscle fibers contracting
400
The nervous system has three overall phases when processing stimuli. What are they?
Sensory input, integration, motor output
400
How many cranial nerves are there and where are serve?
12 in the head and neck
400
Sensorineural deafness indicates a problem with the ______________ while conduction deafness indicates a problem with the______________.
nerves, machinery of the ear
400
Why is it that non-steroid hormones cannot diffuse through the cell membrane?
not lipid soluble
500
Why is the most common reason for muscle fatigue due to oxygen debt?
Oxygen debt forces the body to use anaerobic glycolysis to produce ATP, which has lactic acid as an end product
500
What are the two processes of a neuron called?
Axons and dendrites
500
Give the 5 steps of the reflex arc
Receptor, afferent neuron, integration center, efferent neuron, Effector
500
What is the real name of the auditory tube?
Pharyngotympanic tube
500
What controls when most of the hormones of the pituitary gland are released?
Hypothalamus
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