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Feedback mechanisms control the hormone secretion to regulate the amount of hormones released into the body.
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The pancreas has both exocrine and endocrine glands.
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Feedback mechanisms control the hormone secretion to regulate the amount of hormones released into the body.
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The pancreas has both exocrine and endocrine glands.
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All hormones are required during all stages of life.
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Neurons make up 30% of the nervous system.
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The cerebral cortex controls conscious activities.
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Chemoreceptors are found on the tongue and bind to certain molecules and then initiate an impulse through the nerves to taste things.
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Hydrogen bonds are to weak to create molecules, but they can change the shapes of molecules or pull molecules closer together.
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Elements do not have a uniform composition and properties because they have different characteristics.
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Decomposition reactions take place outside and inside the cells.
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All hormones are required during all stages of life.
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What produces luteinizing and follicle stimulating hormones?
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What cells produce insulin?
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Which gland is involved in the development of the immune system?
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What cells produce glucagon?
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What have receptors for specific hormones?
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Where do two neurons meet?
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What is responsible for autonomic processes such as body temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep, and blood volume?
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What is the largest part of the brain and divided into two hemispheres?
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After practicing a new sport or movement, the ________________ aids in "muscle memory."
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What is the space between two neurons that do no touch called?
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What carries information from one side of the brain to the other?
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Where is the medulla oblongata located?
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What are the two major types of nerve cells?
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The decomposition reactions of complex molecules within the body's cells and tissues are referred to as
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What bond forms when there is a sharing of one pair of electrons between atoms?
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What type of energy is stored, but has the capability to do work?
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What type of reaction assembles smaller molecules into larger molecules?
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What bone occurs between two of the same type of atoms and equally shares electrons?
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When observing ionic bonds what has a negative charge?
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When observing ionic bonds what has a positive charge?
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What type of bonds form when atoms share electrons with another atom?
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What is an example of exergonic reactions?
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What is an example of a hydrolysis reaction?
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An example of a decomposition reaction in our body is locate in the
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What occurs in living cells and are chemical reactions that help sustain life and allow cells to grow?
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What is an example of a decomposition reaction?
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The synthesis of new molecules within the body's cells and tissues is known as
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An unequal sharing of electrons creates a
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Nonpolar covalent bonds involving _____________ atoms form most of the structural component of the human body.
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What type of bond is a chemical bond created by the electrical attraction between anions and cations?
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How many elements combine to form thousands of different chemical compounds in our bodies?
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What type of reactions involve parts of the reacting molecules that are shuffled around to produce new products?
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What is the most important polar molecule in our body?
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What type of reaction breaks a molecule into smaller fragments?
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What bond is formed when there is a sharing of two pairs of electrons between atoms?
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What causes the thyroid to produce thyroxine?
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What stimulates the adrenal glands?
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What stimulates the growth in bones and muscles?
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What stimulates melanocytes to produce melanin?
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What stimulates the production of breast milk?
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What stimulates the release of sex hormones?
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What stimulates the egg or sperm production?
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What increases water retention in the kidneys and decreases urine production?
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What stimulates the contraction of the uterus during childbirth and promotes the release of breast milk?
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What receives the nerve impulse from the senses or another neuron?
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What is the passageway for nerve impulse after the cell body and ends in axon terminals?
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What contains the nucleus and transmits impulses to the axon?
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What insulates the axon and is produced by the Schwann cells?
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What are found between the myelin sheath and the nerve impulses jump from node to node, which increases the speed of the impulse?
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What relays impulses from the peripheral nervous system to the brain?
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What part of the brain and nervous system do voluntary movement, reasoning and decision-making, memory, ability to predict consequences of action, planning, and verbal communication originate from?
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What part of the brain and nervous system do sensations, visual-spatial processing, and body position originate from?
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What part of the brain and nervous system do visual processing-vision and memory of objects?
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What part of the brain and nervous system do memories, comprehension and pronunciation of words, sensations of smell and sound, emotional association of memories originate in?
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What part of the brain and nervous system has two bulb-shaped halves in the center of the brain, relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex for processing and sorting originate?
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What part of the brain and nervous system controls hormones released by the pituitary gland originate?
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What is located between the cerebrum and the spinal cord and is broken into three regions?
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What in the brain and nervous system relays information to cerebrum, controls body movements, and posture?
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What part of the brain and nervous system almost completely made of white matter that links the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum and the central control of breathing?
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What part of the brain and nervous system transmits impulses between the spinal cord and controls blood pressure, heart rate, swallowing, and coughing?
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What part of the brain and nervous system is responsible for coordinating the movements directed by the cerebrum so they are graceful and efficient and are all involuntary?
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What is the encapsulated nerve endings found in hairless skin that detect light touch?
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What detects deep pressure and stretching of the skin?
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What detects light touch and pressure within the epidermis?
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What is the encapsulated nerve endings that detect deep pressure and vibrations called?
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What senses pain, temperature, touch, and pressure?
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What secretes and circulates cerebrospinal fluid ?
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What provides myelin insulation to neurons in the CNS?
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What provides myelin insulation to neurons in the PNS?
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What is located near the sternum?
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What gland is located at the base of the neck?
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The outer layer of the adrenal gland is called the
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What is the inner layer of the adrenal gland called?
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___________ are the reproductive organs that produce sex cells and secrete sex hormones.
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________________ are chemicals released from one part of the body and carried through the bloodstream to affect another part of the body.
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The pituitary gland consists of two lobes:
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_____________ consists of the brain and spinal cord.
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_________ is the thick, tough layer of connective tissue in the skull.
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___________ is the thin, cobweb-like layer of connective tissue in the skull.
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Sound waves travel through all the bones in the middle except for
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Which of the following controls the eyes?
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The ___________ is the second largest part of the brain.
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_____________- distributed all over the retina, are responsible for vision in low light, and are extremely sensitive.
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____________- concentrated in the center of the retina, are responsible for vision in low light, and are extremely sensitive.
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____________ is the thin layer containing lots of blood vessels in the skull.
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What nerves originate in the brain?
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What nerves originate in the spinal cord?
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Energy lost is converted to
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Reactions that release energy are
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The time required for half of a given amount of the isotope to decay is called __________.
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Which of the following is not a gland within the endocrine system?
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What is the main secretion of the pineal gland?
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What are the female gonads?
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What muscle contracts the calf muscle to lift the heel by this tendon?
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What muscle flexes and rotates the leg medially and extends the thigh?
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What muscle extends and laterally rotates the thigh and braces the knee?
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What muscle allows flexion of the wrist and adduction of the wrist?
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What muscle adducts and rotates the head of the humerus externally and pulls the humerus toward the glenoid fossa?
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What muscle draws the scalp backward?
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What is the muscle in the back part of the leg that forms the greater part of the calf called?
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Which muscle is a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastronemius muscle?
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Which of the following muscles is not part of the quadriceps group?
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What muscle adducts the thigh at the hip and flexes the leg at the knee? It also assists in medial rotation.
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What muscle in the thigh helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor?
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What muscle adducts and flexes the thigh at the hip?
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What muscle flexes and rotates the vertebral column?
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Which muscle allows the flexion of the neck forward and rotates the head to the opposite shoulder?
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Which muscle is a synergist in forearm flexion and stabilizes the elbow?
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What muscle allows pronation of the forearm and weak flexion of the elbow?
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What muscle is the strongest flexor of the forearm?
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What muscle extends the forearm when it contracts?
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What muscle abducts, flexes, extends, and rotates the arm?
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What muscle closes the eyelids, is used in blinking, winking, and squinting?
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What muscle compresses, contracts, puckers, and wrinkles the lips?
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What muscle closes the jaw, elevates and retracts the mandible?
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Which of the following is not a way we name muscles? (Be able to write ways we do name them for a short answer.)
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A _______, the force is located between the fulcrum and the load. In this type of lever, the force required is greater because it carries the load a greater distance.
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A ________, the load is located between the fulcrum and the force. In this type of lever, the load can be great, but it can't be moved over a large distance.
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A __________ acts like a seesaw. The fulcrum is located between the load and the force.
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_________: opposing muscle relaxing during motion.
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________ are the muscles that help in that same direction.
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________: muscle doing the action
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The attachment to the more movable bone is called the
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The attachment of the tendon to the more stationary bone is called the
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Muscles are attached to bones by
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_______: a difference occurs between the amount of oxygen available and the amount required and you are "out of breath".