Circulatory system Basic Questions
the main pump of the circulatory system
what is the heart?
Made up of 4 chambers
What is the heart?
What is breathing?
Represented by one letter
What is an allele?
A circuit responsible for transporting oxygenated blood to all organs in the body.
What is the systemic circuit?
Carries blood away from the heart.
What is an artery
Carries blood towards the lung (be specific)
What is the pulmonary artery?
a flap of tissue that prevents food from passing into the respiratory tract.
What is the epiglottis?
Represented by two letters, for example, AA, Aa or aa
What is a genotype?
A physical representation of a genotype.
What is a phenotype?
A circuit where blood is transported to the lungs
What is pulmonary circulation?
The valve between the left ventricle and the aorta
What is the aortic valve?
Cartilaginous structure between the pharynx and the trachea.
What is the larynx?
Blood types follow this pattern of inheritance.
What is codominant pattern of inheritance?
A system that brings nutrient-rich blood from the digestive tract to the liver
What is the hepatic portal system?
What is a vein?
The scientific name for the heart muscle
What is the myocardium?
Gas exchange occurs in this cell
what is an alveolus?
Following the inheritance of two traits.
What is a dihybrid cross?
The pressure that blood exerts against a blood vessel wall. It is highest in the aorta
What is blood pressure?
The wall of those vessels is made only of endothelium
What is a capillary
The electrical conduction of the heart starts here.
What is the SA node?
mucus is swept away from the lungs and toward the pharynx by those cells lining the trachea
What is ciliated cells?
9:3:3:1
What is a phenotypic ratio?
Sensory receptors that are sensitive to the chemical composition of body fluids.
What are chemoreceptors?