The Basic Structure
Studying the Brain
The Endocrine System
Heredity and environment
The nervous system
100
Somatic nervous system
What is the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary activities is the
100
Forebrain
What is the covering of the brains central core?
100
Thyroxin
What is what the thyroid glands produce?
100
Heredity
What is the genetic transmission of characteristics from parents to their offspring?
100
eggs
What is it that ovaries produce?
200
The auntonomic nervous system
What is not part of the peripheral nervous system?
200
Cerebellum
What is located behind the spinal cord and helps control posture and balance?
200
Testosterone
What is also found in low levels in the female body that are in common with males?
200
identical twins
What is it when twins come from one fertilized egg
200
Left side
What is the side of the brain that controls the logic and mathematical
300
Myelin sheath
What is the part that insulates and protects the axon from some neurons?
300
Limbic system
What is the function that regulates our emotions and motivations?
300
Endocrine system
What is the chemical used to send messages through the blood stream?
300
genes
What is the basic building blocks of heredity?
300
Occipital Lobe
What is the part that controls vision?
400
Efferent neurons
What is the neurons that send signals from the brain to the glands and muscles
400
On the right side of your brain that combines parts that make up a whole
What is the holistic?
400
Ductless gland
What is the hormones that get directly released into the bloodstream?
400
Frateral twins
What is when twins come from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm?
400
Electrodes
What is the part in the brain that sets off the firing of neurons?
500
synapse
What is the gap that exists between individual nerve cells?
500
Grand mal seizures
What is split brain operations may be performed as a last resort to control?
500
Estrogen and progesteron
What is the two hormones the ovaries produce?
500
nature vs. nurutre
What is the debate over the role of inherited factors and environmental conditions?
500
midbrain
What is the small part of the brain above the pons?
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