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Homeostasis refers to |
Stable internal environment |
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Active regulation of the osmotic pressure of an organism's body fluids |
Osmoregulation |
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The functional units of the kidneys are |
Nephrons |
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The ducts in the kidney that collects urine is the |
Renal pelvis |
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Upon inhalation air moves: Nobody Can Leave The Big BitcheS Alone |
Nasal cavity > larynx > trachea > bronchi > bronchioles > alveoli |
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The concentration of smooth muscles that moves food down the esophagus |
Peristalsis |
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What is the function of the enzyme salivary and amylase |
Digestive enzyme that acts on starch in foods |
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The breaking up of a fat |
Emulsification |
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Where the digestion of proteins fats and carbohydrates is completed |
Small intestine |
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Salivary glands liver pancreas and the gallbladder are |
Accessory organs |
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This filters the blood coming from the digestive tract |
Liver |
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Stores and concentrate bile |
Gallbladder |
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Capillary exchange of gases occur in the |
Lung alveoli for the process of diffusion |
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Vertebrate heart consists of two pumps |
One for pulmonary and the other for systemic circulation |
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The heart has |
Two atria and two ventricles |
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Deoxygenated blood enters the |
Right atrium of the heart |
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The sequence of events that occurs when the heart beats |
Cardiac cycle |
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When the heart pumps blood into arteries |
Systole |
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Heart relax and fills with blood |
Diastole |
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Blank take, and blank return |
Arteries take, and veins return |
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Adrenal glands are associated with |
Kidneys |
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Make more pth, in response to low calcium |
Parathyroid |
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Releases a steady amount of thyroid hormones into the bloodstream |
Thyroid glands |
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What are the three types of muscles |
Cardiac smooth and skeletal |
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Smooth muscles have no |
Striations |
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Smooth muscles are not under |
Voluntary control |
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Dendrites receive signals from |
Other neurons |
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Axons propagate the signal from the blank and are covered with blank |
Cell body, and myelin sheath |
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What is responsible for Immediate response and controls heart rate |
Sympathetic nervous system |
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Parasympathetic nervous system allows an animal |
Slows down heart rate and stimulates digestion |
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Are viruses living or nonliving |
Non, they require a living cell |
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Capsid is |
The protein shell of a virus |
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Live vaccines are made by |
Weakening of the disease-causing virus by growing in the laboratory |
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Reverse transcriptase enzyme helps at synthesizing |
DNA from viral RNA |
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Antiretroviral drugs Target the |
Reverse transcriptase enzyme of HIV |
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Nonspecific defense mechanisms, immediately or within hours |
Innate immune system |
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Activated by exposure to pathogens, remembers the pathogens |
Adaptive immune system |
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The first line of defense against pathogens |
Skin |
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Large group of proteins secreted by cells of immune system |
Cytokines |
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Interferons are the immune systems response to |
Viral infections |
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NK cells identify the infections from virus by the |
Altered expression MHC I molecules |
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Cell mediated immune response is controlled by |
T cells |
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Humoral immune response is controlled by |
B cells |
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T cells undergo maturation in the |
Thymus gland |
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B cells secrete proteins called blank that bind to and inactivate antigens |
Antibodies |
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T cells directly attack |
Foreign particles |
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Blank mediate the cellular immune response |
Antigen presenting cells |
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Process antigen material and presented on the cell surface |
Dendritic cell |
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Directly attack and Destroy infected cells |
Cytotoxic cells |
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Filters the foreign particles circulating in the blood |
Spleen |
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Analogy is immune response that occurs even though |
No harmful pathogens present |
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Pollen allergies an example of |
Immediate hypersensitivity |
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Hypersensitivity to self antigens is called |
Autoimmunity |
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Molecular mimicry is a potential cause |
Autoimmunity |
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Fission, budding, fragmentation, and parthenogenesis |
Different types of asexual reproduction |
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External fertilization is common in |
Aquatic species like fish |
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Zona pellucida as a binding site for |
The sperm head |
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The process of gastrulation results in the |
Formation of three germ layers |
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Sperm production occurs in the |
Seminiferous tubules |
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Semen includes sperm and secretions from the |
Prostate gland, seminal vesicles, and bulbourethral gland |
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Ovaries, oviducts, uterus and the vagina are the |
Internal female reproductive structures |
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Once eggs mature in the ovary they are released from |
The follicle |
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Fertilization occurs in |
Oviduct |
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Supports the developing embryo and fetus during gestation |
Uterus |
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The production of egg and sperm involving the process of meiosis which halves the chromosome number |
Gametogenesis |
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Ovary -> oviduct -> uterus -> vagina |
Passage of the egg |
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The process of releasing an egg from the ovary |
Ovulation |
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These stimulates spermatogenesis and testosterone secretion |
LH and FSH |
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Secretes progesterone and estrogen |
Corpus luteum |
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A surge in LH is responsible for |
Ovulation |