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