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Digestion
The Blood System
Pathogens, Disease and Immunology
Homeostasis
Reproduction and the Menstrual Cycle
100
The difference between mechanical and chemical digestion.
What is in mechanical digestion there is no changes made to the substance, but in chemical digestion it is broken down into their building blocks.
100
The point where the blood enters the heart.
What is the anterior (superior) vena cava or posterior (inferior) vena cava
100
Name four of the six types of pathogens.
What are viruses, bacteria, fungi, flatworms, roundworms, and protists.
100
Define homeostasis.
What is the maintenance of the body's internal environment between specific limits.
100
Biological term for sexual intercourse.
What is copulation.
200
Part of digestive tract that prevents food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis.
200
Purpose of an artery.
What is to carry blood away from the heart.
200
Name four of the six ways pathogens are transmitted.
What are by contact, cuts, droplets, food and water, sexual contact, and animal vector.
200
Name three structures included in the endocrine system.
What are the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, adrenal gland, pancreas, testes, and ovaries.
200
Yellow body which nourishes and protects the egg cell.
What is the corpus luteum.
300
Bumps and folds in the stomach that increase surface area.
What are rugae.
300
Name 2 substances transported by blood.
What are nutrients, waste products of metabolism, respiratory gases, hormones.
300
The purpose of the skin secreting fatty and lactic acids.
What is to lower the pH so organisms are less likely to survive.
300
The substance secreted by glands in the endocrine system and their mean of transport.
What are hormones transported throughout the body by the blood.
300
LH rises to a peak and causes the egg to be released from the follicle.
What is ovulation.
400
Name two enzymes that contribute to the breakdown of carbohydrates.
What are Sucrase, Lactase, Maltase, Salivary Amylase
400
When controlling one's heartbeat, signals spread throughout the ventricles of the heart via these.
What are purkinje fibers.
400
The special characteristics of a retrovirus.
What is going through reverse transcription and being the only exception to the central dogma.
400
Part of the body responsible for regulation of temperature.
What is the hypothalamus located in the brain.
400
Three out of the five facts about testosterone are...
What are it is released from testies, maintainssex drive, helps stimulate sperm production, causes male secondary sexual characteristics to form during puberty, and causes male genitalia to form in the fetus.
500
Part of the lymphatic system present in the small intestine for fat transport.
What is the lacteal
500
This plasma protein is used for clotting.
What is fibrinogen.
500
The amount of different types of antibodies that a lymphocyte can make.
What is one.
500
Name three of the responses the body has when it begins to feel chilly.
Skin arterioles narrow (vasoconstriction) to help the temperature of the skin fall in order to lose less heat to the environment, one begins to shiver because of small rapid contractions in the muscles, and sweat glands do not secrete sweat so the skin remains dry
500
Matures egg and loosens the egg in the follicle for easier extraction.
What is HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadortropin).