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Salina Aparicio
Physiology week 7-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Each skin surface area supplied by sensory fibers of a given spinal nerve is a | dermatome. |
| If the center of a reflex arc is the brain, the response it mediates is called a | cranial reflex. |
| The limbic system integrates | emotion |
| The molecule that makes up 95% of the dry weight of each red blood cell and is responsible for the red pigment is | hemoglobin. |
| The four structures that compose the conduction system of the heart are the | SA node, AV node, AV bundle, and Purkinje fibers. |
| In _____, blood moves from veins to other veins or arteries to other arteries without passing through an intervening capillary network. | vascular anastomoses |
| Memory cells become what? | become plasma cells when exposed to an antigen |
| Recognition of antigens by antibodies occurs when an | antigen’s epitopes fit into and bind to an antigen molecule’s antigen-binding site. |
| Which antibody is synthesized by immature B cells and then inserted into their plasma membranes? | immunoglobulin M |
| During which stage of swallowing is there a risk of food entering respiratory pathways? | Oropharyngeal |
| Which of the following is a disaccharide? | Sucrose |
| The sodium cotransport or coupled transport acts to transport sodium ions and glucose molecules _____ the GI lumen. | passively out of |