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Physiology Mid term
Week 1-7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The body’s natural change to a set point to different vales at different times of the days: | Circadian cycle |
| Local control or________, intrinsic mechanisms often make use of chemical signals: | Autoregulation |
| Which level of control operations at the cell level, often using genes and enzymes to regulate cell function: | Intracellular regulation |
| Signal traveling toward a particular center or point of reference: | Afferent |
| Because negative feedback control systems oppose changes that are opposite in direction to the initial disturbance; | they are slowed or maintained in the homeostatic range. |
| Which energy releasing or energy-transferring molecules does not contain nucleotide? | Creatinine phosphate |
| Amino acids are frequently joined by: | Polypeptide |
| The main polysaccharide in the body that is referred to as animal starch is: | Glycogen |
| Two molecules of glucose joined to form which disaccharide? | Maltose |
| The process that involves the formation of sucrose involves the removal of a molecule of water: | Dehydration synthesis |
| The type of lipid found in cortisone, estrogen and testosterone | Steroids |
| The alpha helix is an example of which protein structure: | Secondary |
| Humans can synthesize 13 of 21 basic amino acids, the remaining | 8 are called essential amino acids. |
| A condition that is caused by increasing roundness in the thoracic curvature: | Kyphosis |
| Calcification of the organic bone matrix occurs when: | Comp lex calcium salts are deposited into the matrix. |
| _________ is carried out in the bone marrow. | Hematopoiesis |
| During childbirth a baby passes through the imaginary plan called the: | pelvic outlet |
| Characteristics of the epiphysis: | Made of spongy bones, contains red bone marrow |
| The fastest nerve fibers in the body can conduct an impulse _______ times faster than the slowest fiber in the body | 300 |
| Two types of synapse the electrical and the __________ synapse | Chemical |
| Serotonin is an example of a _______ | amine neurotransmitter |
| What is the main chemical class of a neurotransmitter? | Neuropeptide |
| When current leapss aross an isulating myelin sheath from one node to the next, the impuse conduction is called: | saltatory conduction |
| A slight hift fromthe resting membrane potential in a specific region of the plasma mambrane is called a: | local potential |
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