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Biology - Thirteen
Biology - Chapter Thirteen
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Humans belong to a species named | homo sapiens |
| The hans of primates are adapted for | grasping |
| The ability to walk on two legs is known as | bepedalism |
| Human patterns of learned behavior are known collectively as | culture |
| The human pericardial cavity encloses the | heart |
| One function of the facial sinuses is to reduce the _______ of the skull | weight |
| A commmon name for the thoratic basket is the | rib cage |
| Bones that attach arms and legs to the axial skeleton are knon as | girdles |
| Cells that build bone matrix are called | osteoblasts |
| Cells that dissolve the mineral matrix of bone are the | osteoclasts |
| The function of smooth muscle is to _________ organs it surrounds | squeeze |
| The type of muscle that moves the skeleton is called voluntary or __________ muscle | striated or striped |
| The space between a nerve cell adn a muscle is the __________ junction | neuromuscular |
| Two distinctive properties of muscle are electrical excitability and | contractility |
| The S-A node acts as the ___________ of the heart | pacemaker |
| Myofibrils are correctly associated with ___________ cells | muscle |
| Sensory information is integrated in the brain region known as the | thalamus |
| The nature of a nerve impulse is both electrical and | chemical |
| Balance and coordination are controlled by the part of the brain known as the | cerebellum |
| The peripheral nervous system is divided into the somatic and ___________ systems | autonomic |
| A distinctive structural characteristic of endocrine glands is that they do not have ______ | ducts |
| The homeostatic mechanism that regulates the pituitary gland and its target organs is known as a ______________ systems | feedback |
| the endocrine glands tath cap the kidneys are the | adrenals |
| The contraction of a ventricle in the heart is known as | systole |
| The force of the blood on the arteries is known as | pulse |
| The largest lymphatic vessel in the body is the | thoratic duct |
| The unit of structure and function in the kidney is the | nephron |
| The part of the eye that bends light rays is the | lens |
| The ______ in the eye are responsibble for color vision | cones |
| Pressure in the middle ear is regulated by the ____________ tube | eustachian |
| The solid ball of cells formed during cleavage is known as the | morula |
| The corpus luteum behaves as a ________ gland | ductless or endocrine |
| The birth process is known as | parturition |
| Food moves through the digestive tract by waves of muscle contraction known as | peristalsis |
| The _______ closes the stomach from the duodenum | pyloric sphincter |
| Bile is stored in the | gallbladder |
| The large intestine is also called the | colon |
| Tubes leading from the kidney to the urniary bladeder are called | ureters |
| The ________ nerve carries signals from the eye to the brain | optic |
| Semen is a mixture of sperm and secretions from the seminal vesicle, Cowper's gland and the _________ gland | prostate |
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