KHS Human Body Test #3 Final

What System is made up of heart, blood vessels and blood

what hormone is responsible for flight or fight response

What are fingerlike projections that increase surface area in the small intestines

What is the name of the white blood cell that "eats" the antigens?

What is absorbed by the large intestines

Meiosis begins ___ ___ in females

which is a way diseases are spread?

disease due to a decrease in neurotransmitters. Results in tremors, muscle rigidity

What is the gland that maintains homeostasis and controls most of the glands

What neutralizes chyme when it leaves the stomach and enters the small intestines

What is the main organ of excretion

What is the site of embryo development

Which of the following is a Specific Defense to Pathogens?

This is the physical process of breaking food into smaller pieces

This occurs when a blood vessel in the brain is blocked. Brain cells die from lack of oxygen

Antibiotics are drugs that can kill

What is the gland that secretes growth hormone

This enzyme breaks down carbohydrates

What produces bile

What is a fertilized egg

What are Disease-causing agents; such as; viruses, bacteria, protists, worms, fungi

What is the gland that secretes thyroxine

This is a protein that forms a net that traps RBCs and forms a clot

These are surrounded by a network of capillaries and is where gas exchange takes place

cell process that allows the development of the zygote to form into an embryo to fetus to baby

This macromolecule that is broken down in the stomach

What is a substance that is the result of the metabolism of proteins in the body cells

What are chemical messages used to relay information to the body by the endocrine system

where the exchange of nutrients and waste takes place, 1 cell thick

Meiosis begins ___ ___ in males

What hormone is responsible for lowering blood glucose levels

This type of blood cell contain hemoglobin- iron containing protein that carries oxygen

What is found in the stomach that activates pepsin

This is the voice box

what is food called when you swallow it and it is going through the esophagus

what hormone is responsible for secondary sex characteristics in females

What is the main functional unit of the kidneys

Each meiotic division produces __#__ sperm cells with _#___ chromosomes

What are flaps of tissue between chambers and major vessels prevent backflow of blood

What is the tube that leads from the bladder out of the body

What is the gland that secretes epinephrine

These tubes branch off to each lung

What is a shot of weakened or killed pathogens to stimulate the production of antibodies?

what hormone is responsible for the stimulation of mitosis

What are the contraction of smooth muscles that move the bolus down the esophagus called?

This is the muscle at bottom of chest cavity that aids in breathing

What is the tube that leads from the kidneys to the bladder

What are receiving chambers in the heart

This is the food tube

What is also known as the birth canal

What produces sodium bicarbonate

What is the flap of tissue that closes over the trachea to prevent food from entering the lungs

what is absorbed in the small intestines?

Where is the urine stored

This occurs when coronary artery becomes blocked and heart muscle begins to die

what is food called when it enters the stomach

This occurs when there is a loss of elasticity in the tissue of the lungs

What is the Passageway for egg cell during ovulation. Site of fertilization.

What is an overreaction of the immune system?

This occurs in females between the ages of 45 and 55. During this time meiosis stops.