Name the four types of tissues that help the structure and function of the body?
What are the epithelial tissue, the connective tissue, the muscle tissue, and nervous tissue?
100
Which circulatory system has blood confined to vessels and is distinct from the interstitial fluid?
What is Closed Circulatory System?
100
Name one type of a non-specific barrier.
What is skin, anti-microbial proteins, gastric juice, symbiotic bacteria?
100
Name the general process by which animals control salute concentrations and balance water gain and loss.
What is osmoregulation?
100
This is a chemical signal that is released in one part of the body & travels to another part of the body where it elicits a particular response in the target cells.
What is a hormone?
200
Name the process by which animals maintain an internal temperature within a tolerable range.
What is Thermoregulation?
200
Which chamber does the blood enter through in the heart?
What is the right atrium?
200
This type of immunity is active immediately upon infection and are the same whether or not the pathogen has been encountered previously.
What is innate immunity?
200
Name the process that rids the body of nitrogenous metabolites and other waste products.
What is excretion?
200
Members of the same animal species sometimes communicate with this chemical that is released into the external environment.
What is pheromones?
300
Name the result of a diet that conistenly supplies less chemical energy than the body requires.
What is Undernourishment?
300
What is the rhythmic bulging of the artery walls with each hearbeat?
What is the pulse?
300
Name when histamine is released and triggers the dilation & increased permeability of nearby capillaries.
What is Inflammatory Response?
300
During urination, urine is expelled from the bladder through this tube.
What is the urethra?
300
The series of events in the cell triggered by binding a signal molecule to a receptor protein.
What is signal transduction?
400
Name the four main feeding mechanisms of Animals.
What are Suspension, Substrate, Fluid, and Bulk feeders?
400
What are the three cell types that compose of cellular elements in the mammalian blood?
What is Erythrocytes (RBC), Leukocytes (WBC), and Platelets?
400
One type of lymphocyte matures in bone marrow, and the other one migrates to the thymus.
What is B cell and T cell?
400
Name the major nitrogenous waste product of insects, land snails, and many reptiles.
What is uric acid?
400
Name the endocrine gland that produces thyroxine and calcitonin.
What is Thyroid Gland?
500
Name the four stages of food processing.
What are ingestion, digestion, absorption, elimination?
500
Mammals employ which type of pressure breathing?
What is negative pressure breathing?
500
Name one example of an Auto-immune disease.
What is lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis?
500
The adrenal glands release this hormone.
What is aldosterone?
500
Under a stressful situation, the adrenal glands secrete this hormone.