BIO 132 Midterm Lab Practical with correct answers 100%
BIO 132 Midterm Lab Practical with correct answers 100% Pituitary gland - Correct Answer What structure is this? Anterior pituitary stains darker and posterior pituitary stains lighter - Correct Answer Which portion stains darker? Which portion stains lighter? Anterior is composed of epithelial tissue Posterior is composted of nervous tissue - Correct Answer What type of tissue is composed in the anterior pituitary ? Posterior pituitary ? The hypothalamus produces BOTH releasing and inhibiting hormones that influence the anterior pituitary to secrete hormones via the hypophyseal portal system - Correct Answer How does the hypothalamus communicate with the anterior pituitary ? The hypothalamus produces oxytocin and vasopressin or ADH - antidiuretic hormone for the posterior pituitary to secrete , action potentials spread along axons of neurons from the hypothalamus into the posterior pituitary where those 2 hormones are secreted - Correct Answer How does the hypothalamus communicate with the posterior pituitary ? FSH LH ACTH GH Prolactin TSH - Correct Answer What hormones are produced by the anterior pituitary? Oxytocin and vasopressin or ADH (antidiuretic hormone ) - Correct Answer What hormones are produced by the posterior pituitary ? TSH - stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones which regulate the body's metabolism - Correct Answer What effect does TSH have on the body? Prolactin stimulates breast milk producition after childbirth - Correct Answer What effect does Prolactin have on the body? GH - stimulates growth in childhood, in adults its important for maintaining muscle mass and bone mass - Correct Answer What effect does GH have on the body ? ACTH - adrenocorticotropin stimulates the production of cortisol by the adrenal glands. Cortisol is a stress hormone it helps maintain blood pressure and blood glucose levels - Correct Answer What effect does ACTH have on the body? LH stimulates testosterone production in men and egg release or ovulation in women - Correct Answer What effect does LH (luteinizing hormone ) have on the body? FSH produces sperm production in men and stimulates ovaries to produce estrogen and develop eggs in women. LH and FSH work together to regulate normal function of the ovaries and testes - Correct Answer What effect does FSH ( follicle- stimulating hormone ) have on the body? Antidiuretic hormone also called vasopressin regulates water balance in the body , it conserves body water by reducing the amount of water lost in the urine - Correct Answer What effect does ADH have on the body ? Oxytocin causes milk to flow from the breasts in breastfeeding it also helps labor to progress - Correct Answer What effect does oxytocin have on the body? The thyroid - Correct Answer What structure is this? Simple cuboidal epithelial - Correct Answer What type of cells are lined by the thyroid ? Thyroxine also known as T4 and T3 as well as calcitonin - Correct Answer What type of hormones are produced by the thyroid ? It regulates metabolism , heart and digestive functions - Correct Answer What are the effects of thyroxine on the human body ? It produces calcium and phosphate from the parafollicular cells in the thyroid - Correct Answer What are the effects of calcitonin on the human body? The parathyroid and thyroid - Correct Answer What structure is this? anterior pituitary - Correct Answer B posterior pituitary - Correct Answer A thyroid - Correct Answer follicular cells - Correct Answer Responsible for the production and secretion of T3 & T4 (thyroxine) parafollicular cells - Correct Answer Secrete calcitonin colloid - Correct Answer
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