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In digestion, starches are broken down into XXXXXXX.
Glucose
In digestion, proteins are broken down into XXXXXX XXXX.
Amino Acids
In digestion, fats are broken down into XXXXXXXX and XXXXXXX XXXXX.
Glycerol/Fatty Acids
In digestion, Nucleic acids are broken down into XXXXXXXX?
Nucleotides
Describe the pathway of food in the digestive system.
Mouth --> Pharynx --> Esophagas --> Stomach--> Pyloric Sphincter --> Duodenum --> Jejunum --> Illeum --> Colon --> Anus
What is the term used to define an enzyme secreted by the salivary glands, and begins the breakdown of starch into maltose?
Salivary Amylase
Proteins are chemically broken down by an enzyme called XXXXXXX in the stomach.
Pepsin
The liver produces XXXXXXX which functions to emulsify fats.
Bile
What digestive organ produces trypsin and chymotrypsin?
Pancreas
What is the term used to define fingerlike projections of the intestines used to increase the total absorptive area?
Villi/Microvilli
The basic structural unit of the nervous system is a XXXXXXX.
Neuron
What are the three basic parts of a neuron?
1. Cell Body
2. Axon
3. Dendrite
A dendrite XXXXXX stimuli, while an axon XXXXXX stimuli.
Recieves/Sends
What are the three general groups of neurons?
1. Sensory Neurons
2. Motor Neurons
3. Association Neurons
What is the term used to define a neuron that recieves a stimulus?
Sensory Neuron
What is the term used to define a neuron that stimulates effectors, target cells that produce some kind of response?
Effectors
What is the term used to define a neuron that is located in the spinal cord or brain that recieves impulses from sensory neurons or sends impulses to motor neurons?
Association Neurons
What is the term used to define a state in the neuron in which there is a difference in the electrical charge between the outside and inside of the membrane?
Polarized
What ions contribute to the polarized potential of a neuron?
Na+ and K+ ions
What is the term used to define the unstimulated polarized state of a neuron?
Resting Potential
What is the term used to define when gated ion channels in the membrane suddenly open to allow Na+ to rush inside the cell in response to a stimulus?
Action Potential
What is the term used to define when more K+ has moved out of the cell than is actually necessary to establish original polarized potential?
Hyperpolarization
What is the term used to define a period in which a neuron will not respond to another stimulus?
Refractory Period
What is the term used to define Schwann cells that encircle the axon?
Myeline Sheath
What is the term used to define gaps of unsheathed axon?
Nodes of Ranvier
What is the term used to define the gap that seperates adjacent neurons?
Synapse
Acetylcholine is broken down by XXXXXXXXX.
Acetylcholinesterase
XXXXXXXX is commonly secreted at neuromuscular joints, were it acts to stimulate muscles to contract.
Acetylcholine
What are the two parts of the nervous system?
1. Central Nervous System
2. Peripheral Nervous system
What is the term used to define a part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord?
Central Nervous System
What is the term used to define a part of the nervous system consists of sensory neurons?
Peripheral Nervous System
What is the term used to define a part of the peripheral nervous system that directs contraction of skeletal muscles and is voluntary?
Somatic Nervous System
What is the term used to define a part of the nervous system controls the activities of involuntary muscles, and glands?
Autonomic Nervous system
What are the two parts of the peripheral nervous system?
1. Autonomic Nervous System
2. Somatic Nervous System
What are the two parts of the autonomic nervous system?
1. Sympathetic Nervous System
2. Parasympathetic Nervous System
What is the term used to define a part of the nervous system that stimulates the body to action such as fight or flight?
Sympathetic Nervous System
What is the term used to define a part of the nervous system that activates tranquil functions like rest and digest functions?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
What is the term used to define a rapid involuntary response to a stimulus?
Reflex Arc