Final Practice Flashcards
(25 cards)
What structures keep food from exiting from the nose during swallowing?
Soft palate
Long folds of the stomachs inner surface are called
Rugae
The combination of chewed food and saliva is called
Bolus
The mixing movement of the small intestine is called
Segmentation
Type II Diabetes mellitus
Result from a decrease in the effectiveness of insulin on body tissue
Destruction of which pancreatic cells would cause hyperglycemia?
Beta cells
Decreased leptin secretion should not cause
Suppression of appetite
How many sperm are produced from one spermatogonium
Four
What are the small cells produced by the uneven cytoplasmic divisions or oogenesis?
Polar bodies
What hormone is secreted by the trophoblast cells of the chorion that is used in a pregnancy test to determine if a woman is pregnant?
hCG
Sertoli cells are stimulated by ________. While Leydig cells are stimulated by ______.
FSH; LH
Which condition is NOT a found metabolic syndrome
Hypotension
Which structure wouldn’t be found in normal somatic cells of women but not men?
A Barr body
Tissue transplants should have matching ________ to prevent rejection in the host.
MHC molecules
The concentration of the renal filtrate is highest in the __________
Base of Nephron loop
The ___________ is the capillary network that produces a blood filtrate that enters the urinary tubules
Glomerulus
What is the order that filtrate must pass through to the glomerular capsule?
Capillary fenestrae,
glomerular basement membrane, podocytes of visceral glomerular epithelium
Angiotensin-converting enzyme is mostly present in the capillaries of the ___________.
Lungs
The ability of the kidneys to remove molecules from the blood plasma by excreting them in the urine is known as______________
Renal clearance
Which of the following is not an essential amino acid
Proline
Which hormones are involved in long term regulation of hunger?
Leptin and insulin
Which of the following is NOT an action of parathyroid hormone?
Stimulated osteoblasts to deposit calcium
Choose the mineral that is only needed in trace amounts by the body
Iron
Formation of glucose from non carbohydrate molecules is called
Gluconeogenesis
