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Latisha Barnes
Physiology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The impact of effector activity on sensors may be positive or negative. Therefore, homeostatic control mechanisms are categorized as | organs that are directly influenced by physiological variables or mechanisms. |
| Processes for maintaining or restoring homeostasis are known as | homeostatic control mechanisms. |
| The concept that information may flow ahead to another process to trigger a change in anticipation of an event that will follow is called | feed-forward. |
| Normal mitosis results in | cells that are genetically identical to the parent cell. |
| Which of the following is not a characteristic of meiosis? | two haploid gametes |
| Mitosis is subdivided into four phases, including all of the following except | karyophase. |
| Osmosis can be defined as | the net movement of water molecules from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration. |
| Replication of DNA occurs in which phase of interphase? | S phase |
| Fingernail growth is the result of the mitosis of the cells in the stratum: | germinativum. |
| Which cells of the skin act as a type of antigen-presenting cell in the skin? | Dendritic cells |