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BSC 197 Exam 4 Questions With Correct Answers

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What is homeostasis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Maintaining steady state
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of health
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Advantages and trade offs of being multicellular - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Size, easy to stay in one spot for aquatic organisms, and | | | | | | | | | | |



cells can become specialized to do one function very well
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The 3 main types of neurons and their roles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Sensory-receive info and pass it along. Interneurons-act as intermediate
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by conducting a signal from sensory neurons. Motor neurons-affect
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physiological change or movement in response to signal from sensory
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neurons.


Basic structure of a neuron and the function of each part of Cell -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Dendrite receives signal. Axon transmits signal.
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Narrow gap between an axon of one neuron and a dendrite of another
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is called a synaptic cleft. Entire structure of these is a synapse. Signal
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molecules are released by axon terminal. | | | | |

, How depolarization and firing of action potential occur in neurons -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Depolarization is the rapid increase in
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membrane potential that occurs along the membrane of the axon in
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response to the summed dendritic signal at the axon hillock
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Glial cells and myelin sheaths - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Myelin sheaths
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act like plastic insulation around electrical wire.
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The central and peripheral nervous systems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-2
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branches of nervous system | | |




How simple reflexes occur - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Direct activation of a
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motor neuron by a signal from a sensory neuron
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structure and function of sensory cells - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Touch-
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How membrane channels are involved in senses - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-


The flavors detected by human taste buds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Sweet, bitter, salty, sour, umami
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The role of Opsins in human vision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-React to
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photons of light and change their shape
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