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MSN 570 Patho Midterm Exam Review
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respiratory zone
Ans: respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveoli
What does the Respiratory Zone do?
Ans: Allow inhaled oxygen to diffuse into the lung capillaries in
exchange for CO2
Conducting Zone
Ans: nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles
What does conducting zone do?
Ans: conducts air to respiratory zone, humidifies, warms, and
filters air
Most common cancer mutation?
Ans: Acquired
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What does anticholinergic mean?
Ans: blockade of muscarinic receptors - This inhibits nerve
impulses responsible for involuntary muscle movements and
various bodily functions
What does dopamine do?
Ans: influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
Dopamine enables neurons in your brain to communicate and
control movement.
What does messenger RNA do?
Ans: Transcribes information from the DNA in the nucleus and
carries it to the cytoplasm, and then to the ribosome. Single -
stranded, intermediate molecule. Carries the instructions for
making proteins.
What do ribosomes do?
Ans: Make proteins (protein synthesis)
Neurotransmitters
Ans: chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps
between neurons
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MSN 570 Patho Midterm Exam Review
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
respiratory zone
Ans: respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveoli
What does the Respiratory Zone do?
Ans: Allow inhaled oxygen to diffuse into the lung capillaries in
exchange for CO2
Conducting Zone
Ans: nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles
What does conducting zone do?
Ans: conducts air to respiratory zone, humidifies, warms, and
filters air
Most common cancer mutation?
Ans: Acquired
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What does anticholinergic mean?
Ans: blockade of muscarinic receptors - This inhibits nerve
impulses responsible for involuntary muscle movements and
various bodily functions
What does dopamine do?
Ans: influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
Dopamine enables neurons in your brain to communicate and
control movement.
What does messenger RNA do?
Ans: Transcribes information from the DNA in the nucleus and
carries it to the cytoplasm, and then to the ribosome. Single -
stranded, intermediate molecule. Carries the instructions for
making proteins.
What do ribosomes do?
Ans: Make proteins (protein synthesis)
Neurotransmitters
Ans: chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps
between neurons
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