Biol251 week - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Question: Hormones produced and released from sex organs include which of the following? 2. Question: In contrast to the nervous system, the endocrine system uses only one method of communication: _________ signaling. 3. Question: Hormones regulate certain target cell responses. These can include which of the following? 4. Question: One of the major functions of the adrenal glands is to respond to ________. 5. Question: The beta cells of the pancreatic islets produce and secrete _________...

1. Question: How soon after drinking a large glass of water will a person begin increasing their urine output? 2. Question: What is the major cation found in the extracellular fluid? 3. Question: How are most electrolytes typically lost? 4. Question: The largest amount of water leaves the body through this route. 5. Question: Solute contributes to the movement of water between cells and the surrounding medium by what force? 6. Question: Where is most of the body's calcium found? 7. Questi...

1. Question: The two regulatory mechanisms (controls) of the digestive system are _________ and _________ _. 2. Question: How many lobes does the liver have? 3. Question: The__________ is where chemical digestion begins. 4. Question: The correctly sequenced sections of the small intestine are: ____________, _____________ , ____________ 5. Question: The stomach is protected from self-digestion by the ____________ _. When this breaks down, _________ can form and be painful. 6. Question: Which...

1. Question: Without SRY expression, an embryo will develop: 2. Question: If the average length of a woman's ovarian cycle is 30 days, the average length of her uterine cycles is most likely ____ days 3. Question: What controls whether an embryo will develop testes or ovaries? 4. Question: All of the following statements concerning oogenesis are correct EXCEPT: 5. Question: What are the female gonads called? 6. Question: Why do estrogen levels fall after menopause? 7. Question: After ovul...

1. Question: Which of the following is not considered an accessory organ of digestion? 2. Question: In which organ below does the majority of digestion occur? 3. Question: The stomach is protected from self-digestion by the . When this breaks down, can form and be painful. 4. Question: Where are carbohydrates first digested? 5. Question: Which organ below produces bile for use in digestion? 6. Question: Mechanical digestion occurs when food is broken into smaller pieces, but the chemical ma...

1. Question: In what structure does spermatogenesis take place? 2. Question: In the testes, sperm cells replicate and differentiate in the________ _. 3. Question: In men during sexual arousal, penile erections occur due to Nitric Oxide being released from what structures? 4. Question: What is the function of the seminal vesicles? 5. Question: The interstitial cells of the testes: 6. Question: What is the function of the epididymis? 7. Question: Around the age of 40 to 50 in men, a reductio...

1. Question: Which of the following is NOT one of the three metabolic states of the body? 2. Question: Fever increases the body temperature and can induce chills to help cool the temperature back down. What other mechanisms are in place to regulate the body temperature? 3. Question: Which one of the following is NOT a water-soluble vitamin? 4. Question: The accumulation of how many calories adds one pound of weight? 5. Question: Which one of the following is NOT considered a Trace Miner...

1. Question: A cross-sectional view of a kidney shows the outer _______ of the organ and the inner_______of the organ. 2. Question: The urinary system has some of the following roles in the human body: 3. Question: Which of the following statements is/are true of the urinary bladder? 4. Question: A normal urinalysis would include each of the following: 5. Question: The volume of filtrate formed by both kidneys per minute is termed the ____________ _ . 6. Question: Renin is released in respo...

1. Question: Hormones produced and released from sex organs include which of the following? 2. Question: How many hormones are produced by the posterior pituitary? Question options: 3. Question: The development of a goiter indicates that _. 4. Question: The alpha cells of the pancreatic islets produce and secrete 5. _________. Question options: 6. Question: Which general type of hormone can easily pass through the cell membrane and into the cytoplasm of the cell? 7. Question: The function ...

1. Question: The two regulatory mechanisms (controls) of the digestive system are _________ and _________ _. 2. Question: How many lobes does the liver have? 3. Question: The__________ is where chemical digestion begins. 4. Question: The correctly sequenced sections of the small intestine are: ____________, _____________ , ____________ 5. Question: The stomach is protected from self-digestion by the ____________ _. When this breaks down, _________ can form and be painful. 6. Question: Which...