HCB 101 2024 New Update Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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HCB 101 2024 New Update Exam Questions with Correct Answers
What is the Endocrine System? - Answer-A collection of glands whose function is to regulate multiple organs within the body
What are arteries? - Answer-Thick-walled, muscular, pulsating blood vessel moving blood away from the heart
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HCB 101 2024 New Update Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
What is the Endocrine System? - Answer-A collection of glands whose function is to
regulate multiple organs within the body
What are arteries? - Answer-Thick-walled, muscular, pulsating blood vessel moving
blood away from the heart
What are Arterioles? - Answer-Smallest branches of the arteries that regulate the flow of
blood into the capillary network
What are capillaries? - Answer-An extensive system of thin vessels that enable rapid
exchange between the tissues and vascular channels
What are coronary arteries? - Answer-Arteries that branch off from the aorta and supply
the heart muscle with blood
What is the pituitary gland? - Answer-Pea-shaped gland that is located in and controlled
by the hypothalamus. Known as the master gland because it releases several
hormones that control other glands
Describe the thyroid gland - Answer-Butterfly-shaped and is inferior to the larynx, it
secretes thyroxin and is responsible for the regulation of metabolism
Describe the pineal gland - Answer-Pinecone shaped
Located in the brain
Secretes melatonin
Describe the pancreas - Answer-Gland located behind the stomach
Secretes insulin
The brain stem consists of what? - Answer-Medulla
Pons
Midbrain
The Peripheral Nervous System consists of - Answer-Nerves and ganglia (small groups
of neurons)
What is the Recticular Activating System? - Answer-A series of nervous pathways in the
brain that is responsible for keeping humans awake
, What controls involuntary motor functions? - Answer-Autonomic Nervous System(ANS)
What is the sympathetic nervous system? - Answer-Fight or flight
What is the parasympathetic nervous system? - Answer-Rest and digest
What are the functions of the nervous system? - Answer-Excitability
Sensory detection
Information processing
Behavior
What's the job of the Urinary(Renal) System? - Answer-Helps regulate fluid levels
Filter chemicals
Adjust body pH
How many liters of urine does an average human body excrete per day? - Answer-1.5
liters
What are the organs of the Urinary System? - Answer-Kidneys
Ureters
Bladder
Urethra
What are the ureters? - Answer-Paired ducts that carry away urine from kidney to the
bladder
What is the urethra? - Answer-A tube that carries the urine from the bladder to the
outside of the body
What is the GI tract? - Answer-A continuous tube that extends from the mouth distally to
the anus and is about 5 - 7 meters long
What is the esophagus? - Answer-A muscular tube that passes from the pharynx down
the neck between the trachea and the spinal column
What is the stomach? - Answer-J-shaped pouch that connects the esophagus to the
small intestines and serves as a mixing chamber and holding reservoir
What is the large intestine (colon)? - Answer-Terminal portion of the GI tract and is
about 5ft long
Removes water from waste, forms feces and the expulsion of feces from the body
The small intestine is divided into - Answer-Duodenum
Jejunum
Ileum
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