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BIOL235 Midterm 1 Exam Questions with 100% CorrectAnswers | Verified | Latest Update 2024
6 levels of organization - ✔✔1.) Chemical
2.) Cellular
3.) Tissue
4.) Organ
5.) System
6.) Organismal
Functions & components of the INTEGUMENTARY system - ✔✔Components: Skin and associated
structures, such as hair, fingernails and toenails, sweat glands and oil glands.
Functions :
1.) protect the body
2.) helps regulate body temperature
3.) eliminates some waste
4.) helps make vitamin D
5.)detects sensations like touch, warmth, pain, and cold
6.)store fat and provides insulation
Functions & components of the SKELETAL system - ✔✔Components: bones and joints of the body
and their associated cartilage
Functions:
1.) supports and protects body
2.) provides surface area for muscle attachment
3.) houses cells that produce blood cells
4.) stores minerals and lipids
,Functions and components of the MUSCULAR system - ✔✔Components: specifically, skeletal muscle
tissue which is muscle usually attached to bones
Functions:
1.) participates in body movements
2.) maintains posture
3.) produces heat
Functions and components of the NERVOUS system - ✔✔Components: brain, spinal cord, nerves,
and special sense organs such as eyes and ears
Functions:
1.) generates action potentials to regulate body internal an external environments
2.) interprets change
3.) responds to change by causing muscular contraction or glandular secretions
Functions and components of the ENDOCRINE system - ✔✔Components: hormone-producing glands
(pineal gland, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thymus, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, adrenal
glands, pancreas, ovaries, testes) and hormone-producing cells in several organs
Functions: Regulates body activities by releasing hormones (chemical messengers transported in
blood from endocrine gland or tissue to target organ
,Functions and components of the CARDIOVASCULAR system - ✔✔Components: blood, heart, and
blood vessels
Functions:
1.) heart pumps blood through vessels
2.) blood carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and carbon dioxide and wastes away from cells and helps
regulate acid-base balance, temperate and water content of the body fluids
3.) blood components help defend against disease and repair damaged blood vessels
Functions and components of LYMPHATIC system - ✔✔Components: lymphatic fluids, and
vessels, spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, and tonsils, cells that carry out immune responses
Functions:
1.) returns proteins and fluid to blood
2.) carries lipids from gastrointestinal tract to blood
3.) contains sites of maturation ad proliferation of B cells and T cells that protect against disease-causing
microbes
Functions and components of the RESPIRATORY system - ✔✔Components: lungs and air
passageways such as the pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), trachea (windpipe), and bronchial tubes
leading into and out of lungs
Functions:
1.) transfers oxygen from inhaled air to blood and carbon dioxide from blood to exhaled air
2.) helps regulate acid-base balance of body fluids
3.) air flowing out of lungs through vocal chords produces sounds
Functions and components of the DIGESTIVE system - ✔✔Components: organs of the gastrointestinal
tract, a long tube that includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines,
and anus. Also includes accessory organs that assist in digestive processed such as salivary glands, liver,
gallbladder, and pancreas
Functions:
1.)acheives physical and chemical breakdown of food
2.) absorbs nutrients
, 3.) eliminates solid wastes
Functions and components of the URINARY system - ✔✔Components: kidneys, ureters, urinary
bladder, and urethra
Functions:
1.) produces, stores, and eliminates urine
2.) eliminates wastes and regulates volume and chemical composition of blood
3.) helps maintain the acid-base balance of body fluids
4.) maintains body mineral balnce
5.) helps regulate production of red blood cells
Functions and components of the REPRODUCTIVE system - ✔✔Components: gonads and
associated organs
Functions:
1.)gonads produce gametes that unite to form a new organism
2.) gonads also release hormones that regulate reproduction and other body processes
3.) associated organs transport and store gametes
4.) mammary glands produce milk
6 basic life processes - ✔✔1.) Metabolism
2.) Responsiveness
3.) Movement
4.) Growth
5.) Differentiation
6.) Reproduction
Homeostasis - ✔✔the condition of equilibrium (balance) in the bodies internal environment due tot
he constant interaction of the body many regulatory processes
It is a dynamic condition
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