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Vivian Pina
Week 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following is not one of the basic components in a feedback control loop? | Transmitter |
| Intrinsic control: | is sometimes called autoregulation |
| Your children's bones have a greater risk of fracturing because of incompletely ossified bone. | False |
| The strength of a muscle contraction is influenced by the : | All of the above- amount of load, initial length of muscle fibers, and recruitment of motor units |
| Stretching the food down and back and pointing the toe is called: | Plantar flexion |
| The brief period during which a local area of an axon's membrane resists restimulation is called the _ period. | Refractor |
| The fastest nerve fibers in the body can conduct an impulse that is how much faster than the slowest fibers in the body? | Almost 300 times faster |
| Which of the following is a powerful poison that acts directly on any cell and quickly kills it | Lymphotoxin |
| During inspiration, the expansion of the lungs causes: | a decrease in alveolar pressure |
| Which of the following would you expect to happen to cellular respiration during exercise? | Increased cellular respiration occurs during exercise, causing a rise in plasma PCO2, which is detected by central chemoreceptors in the brain and perhaps peripheral chemoreceptors in the carotid sinus and aorta to cause an increase in respiration rate. |
| Hydrolysis refers to: | using water to split larger compounds into smaller ones |
| A decrease in blood pH below normal tends to: | stimulate increased respirations. |
| The main advantage of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction is: | there is greater diversity in the offspring. |
| Which of the following statements is not true about the mechanism controlling lactation? | Prolactin stimulates the ejection of milk into the ducts of the mammary glands. |