ANATOMY FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE FULLY SOLVED #20
What are the major controlling systems in the body? - correct answer endocrine and
nervous
Which area of the brain is responsible for much of the body's hormonal control? -
correct answer hypothalamus
What pathway does a simple reflex travel along? - correct answer receptor, afferent
neuron, integration center, efferent neuron, effector
What are the major parts of a nerve cell? - correct answer dendrites, soma and axon
What is the electrical wave that travels down an axon? - correct answer action potential
What is the space between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendtrite of another
neuron? - correct answer synapse
What is the chemical that transfers the electrical signal from one neuron to another? -
correct answer neurotransmitter
What is the primary integration center in a spinal reflex? - correct answer the spinal cord
What is gray matter? - correct answer unmyelinated parts of the brain and spinal cord
What is the covering that insulates axons? - correct answer myelin
What is the function of myelin? - correct answer speeds up nerve impulses
What area of the brain is responsible to interpreting information coming from the eyes? -
correct answer occipital lobe
What is the function of the medulla oblongata? - correct answer respiration, heart rate,
and blood pressure
What part of brain controls movement? - correct answer cerebellum
What part of the brain acts as a thermostat to regulate body temperature? - correct
answer hypothalamus
What is the most common neurotransmitter in the body? - correct answer acetylcholine
What is the function of the frontal lobe of the brain? - correct answer planning,
reasoning, and voluntary movement
, What are the meningeal layers? - correct answer dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia
mater
What is an inflammation of the meninges? - correct answer meningitis
What part of the brain controls our sex and food drive behaviors? - correct answer
limbic system
All sensory information except olfactory must first travel through what part of the brain
before it goes to the cortex? - correct answer thalamus
What are the photoreceptors of the retina? - correct answer rods and cones
What point on the retina has no photoreceptors? - correct answer blind spot
Which photoreceptor allows humans to see in dim light? - correct answer rods
Which photoreceptor allows humans to see in color? - correct answer cones
What structure regulates the amount of light that passes to the visual receptors of the
eye? - correct answer iris
Where are the receptors for hearing located in the ear? - correct answer cochlea
Why can corneas can be transplanted without being rejection? - correct answer they
have no blood supply
What stimulates olfactory cells and taste buds? - correct answer substances in solution
(mucus and saliva)
Which division of the autonomic nervous system controls our "fight or flight" response? -
correct answer sympathetic
Which division of our autonomic nervous system controls our "feed and breed"
response? - correct answer parasympathetic
List the structures of the eye through which light passes to the retina. - correct answer
cornea, aqueous humor, lens, vitreous humor, retina
What structures make up the brain stem? - correct answer midbrain, pons, and medulla
oblongata
What are the two types of neuroglia that produce myelin? - correct answer Schwann
cells in PNS and oligodendrocytes in the CNS
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