GCU BIO 201 Exam 4 Questions With Correct Answers.

GCU BIO 201 Exam 4 Questions With
Correct Answers

Central Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-brain and spinal cord
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Rostral - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-toward forehead
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Caudal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Toward cord
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longitudinal fissure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-divides cerebral hemispheres
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Gyri - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-folds
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Sulci - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-grooves
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cortex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-surface layer of gray matter
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Nuclei (in brain) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deeper masses of gray matter
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("mini brains" cluster of cell bodies)
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tracts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-bundles of axons (white matter)
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, Gray matter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-neuron cell bodies, dendrites, and synapses
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(on outside of brain)
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White matter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-bundles of axons; forms tracts that
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connect parts of brain | | |




(on inside of brain)
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Dura mater - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Outermost layer of the meninges, tough
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membrane


Epidural space - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Filled with fat in low back
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Subdural space - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-between dura mater and arachnoid
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mater


Arachnoid layer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-middle layer, wed-like
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Pia mater - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-thin, delicate inner membrane of the
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meninges
(lies on gyri of brain)
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Meningitis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-inflammation of meninges
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usually found in infants
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