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17 Cards in this Set
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Temporal Lobe |
-Main functions are hearing and smell |
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Occipital Lope |
-Main function is vision |
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Parietal Lobe |
-Main functions are speech, taste, reading, somatosensory |
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Frontal Lobe |
-Main functions are speech, motor cortex |
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Four lobes of the Brain |
-Frontal lobe -Parietal lobe -Occipital lobe -Temporal lobe |
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Cerebrum |
-Split into two hemispheres that connect to each other in the middle via the corpus callosum -Each half is divided into four lobes |
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Amygdala |
-Portion of tour brain that controls impulsive emotions and anger |
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Hypothalamus |
-Regulates temperature, hunger, and thirst |
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Medulla Oblongata |
-Is the control center for involuntary activities such as breathing |
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Cerebellum |
-Is in charge of coordination and balance |
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Motor Neurons |
-Take commands of the CNS and put them into action as motor outputs |
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Interneurons |
-Neurons that function to make synaptic connections with other neurons -Located in the CNS, they tie together sensory input and motor output and are the intermediaries of the operation |
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Sensory Neurons |
-Neurons that receive and communicate information form the sensory environment |
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Plant Life Cycle |
-Two haploid gametes combine to form a diploid zygote, which divides mitotically to produce the diploid multicellular stage known as the sporophyte -The sporophyte undergoes meiosis to produce a haploid spore -Mitotic division produces the haploid multicellular organism (gametophyte) |
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Alternations of Generations |
-Another name for plant life cycle -Because, during the plant life cycle, plants sometimes exist as diploid organisms and other time as haploid organisms |
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Life Cycle |
-A sequence of events that make up the reproductive cycle of an organism |
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Polar Body |
-The cell in women during oogenesis that simply receives half of the genetic information and is cast away |
