individual cells in the nervous system that receive, integrate, and transmit information
What are Neurons?
100
nerves that lie outside the brain and spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system?
100
CT, MRI, PET, fMRI
What are the brain imaging tests?
100
thread like strands of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules that carry genetic information
What are Chromosomes?
100
The British naturalist to describe the process of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
cells found throughout the nervous system that provide various types of support for neurons
What are Glia's?
200
nerves that connect to voluntary skeletal muscles and sensory receptors
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
200
Hindbrain, Midbrain, and Forebrain
What are the three major areas in the brain?
200
DNA segments that serve as the key functional units in hereditary transmission
What are Genes?
200
the fitness refers to the reproductive success of an individual organism relative to the average reproductive success in the population
What is the evolutionary theory?
300
the state of a neuron when it is stable and has a negative charge or is inactive
What is the resting potential?
300
nerves that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles and glands
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
300
a relay station where all sensory information (except smell) must pass to get to the cerebral cortex
What is the Thalamus?
300
characteristics that are influenced by more than one pair of genes
What are polygenic traits?
300
heritable characteristics are more likely to be passed down that would help provide a survival reproductive advantage are more likely than other characteristics to future generations
What is natural selection?
400
a very brief shift in a neuron's electrical charge that travels along an axon
What is an action potential?
400
branches of the autonomic nervous system
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions?
400
a regulator of biological needs
What is the Hypothalamus?
400
family studies, twin studies, and adoptions studies
What are research methods for detection hereditary influences?
400
an inherited characteristic that increased in a population because it helped solve a problem of survival during the time it emerged
What is an adaptation?
500
soma, dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, terminal buttons, and a synapse
What are the key parts of a neuron?
500
the system that contains the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
500
seat of emotion and seat of complex thought
What are the Limbic System and the Cerebrum?
500
the study of heritable changes n gene expression that do not involve modifications to the DNA sequence
What is Epigenetics?
500
a way for some species to hide or adapt to an environment