Integumentary System
The cells that produce skin pigment.
What are melanocytes?
The cells that break down bone.
What are the osteoclasts?
The name of muscle cells.
What are sarcomeres?
Nerve cells.
What are neurons?
The master gland.
What is the pituitary?
The muscle that controls breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
The first stage of urine foramtionit occurs between the glomerulus and the Bowman's capsule.
What is filtration?
The muscle that makes up the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
Optimal temperature for sperm production.
What is 95o F?
The digestion of fiber occurs in this organ (with the help of bacteria).
What is the large intestine?
Macrophages, neutrophils, and eosinophils are examples of these types of cells that eat other cells.
What are phagocytes?
They are glands that secrete oil.
What are sebaceous glands?
The tissue that makes red blood cells.
What is red bone marrow?
The muscle end that doesn't move when contraction occurs.
What is the origin?
The two ions that produce action potentials.
What are sodium and potassium?
What is the pancreas?
The function of the conchae.
What is to increase surface area?
The inner portion of the kidney.
What is the medulla?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The inner lining of the uterus.
What is the endometrium?
The three enzymes found in intestinal juice.
What are lipase, trypsin and amylase?
Molecules that drill holes in bacteria after being activated by T-cells.
What are complement proteins?
It is the outer layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
The two major divisions of the skeletal system.
What are the appendicular and axial skeleton?
The element that moves tropomyosin away from the actin.
What is calcium?
The molecule that powers the sodium/potassium pumps.
What is ATP?
The glands that activate the fight-or-flight response.
What are the adrenals?
Tissue in the respiratory system that warm, clean and humidify the air.
What is mucous membrane?
The part of the nephron that forms a cup around the capillaries where filtration occurs.
What is the Bowman's capsule?
The location of the AV and SA nodes.
What is the right atrium?
The hormone that causes ovulation in females and the production of testosterone in males.
What is luteinizing hormone?
The mineral stored by the liver after destroying old red blood cells.
What is iron?
Immune systems cells that kill cancer cells.
What are T-cells?
The substance that fills the cells of the epidermis.
What is keratin?
What are the pubis, ilium, and ischium?
The molecule that supplies the energy for muscle contraction.
What is ATP?
The ion that causes the release of the neurotransmitters into the synapse.
What is calcium?
The glands that regulate the amount of calcium in the blood.
What are the thyroid and parathyroids?
The gas produced during cellular respiration.
What is CO2?
The hormone that makes the nephrons reabsorb more water.
What is antidiuretic hormone?
They are the blood cells that carry oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
The number of stages of meiosis.
What is eight?
The cellular site of the anabolism of proteins.
What are the ribosomes?
Immune system cells that prevent blood clotting.
What are basophils?
It is the vitamin that is produced in the skin.
What is vitamin D?
The four bones of the leg.
What are the femur, tibia, fibula, and patella?
The three types of muscle tissue.
What are smooth, skeletal, and cardiac?
The neurons that connect sensory neurons and motor neurons.
What are interneurons?
They are the class of hormones secreted by the pituitary that target endocrine glands.
What are tropic hormones?
The space between the vocal cords.
What is the glottis?
The muscles that control urine flow out of the body.
What are the urethral sphincters?
Small blood vessels that connect capillaries and veins.
What are venules?
The two stages of the ovarian cycle.
What are the follicular and luteal phases?
The term for the ball of food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the bolus?
The "vestigial" organ that may play a role in the lymphatic system.
What is the appendix?
The muscles found at the base of hairs that cause "goosebumps."
The bone through which tears drain into the nasal sinuses.
What is the lacrimal?
The product that is produced by muscle cells during anaerobic respiration.
What is lactic acid?
The gaps between the Schwann cells.
What are the nodes of Ranvier?
The hormone that increases water retention.
What is antidiuretic hormone?
The cavity that opens into both the respiratory and digestive system.
What is the pharynx?
The blood vessel that enters the glomerulus.
What is the afferent arteriole?
Arteries that supply cardiac muscle with oxygen.
What are coronary arteries?
The term that means half the number of chromosomes and describes gametes.
What is haploid?
The process that follows digestion in the small intestine.
What is absorption?
The number of tonsils minus the number of spleen.
What is five?