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NU 110 Exam 3 Questions & Answers Newest Correct Detailed Solution.pdf
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What are the parts of the small intestine? - ANSWER ✔ - 1. Duodenum
What is the function of the Duodenum? - ANSWER ✔ - It receives Chyme. It is where your gallbladder dumps bile via bile ducts.
What is the importance of the small intestine? - ANSWER ✔ - Site of nutrient absorption.
What is the function of the Ileum - ANSWER ✔ - It's an extension to make sure whatever nutrients were not absorbed have somewhere to go.
What is the direction of the large intestine? - ANSWER ✔ - Ascending colon, transverse colon, Descending colon, sigmoid colon, Rectum. Anus.
Where does digestion start? - ANSWER ✔ - starts psychologically before food enters the mouth
What is the enzyme that digests/breaks down glucose? - ANSWER ✔ - Amylase
What is the mechanical part of chewing? What is CN for chewing? CN for swallowing? - ANSWER ✔ - - Mastication
-CN#5 Trigeminal= chewing
-CN#9 Glossopharyngeal= swallowing
What structure is involved in swallowing after mastication? - ANSWER ✔ - Esophagus
What sphincter at the beginning of the stomach prevents us from having heart burn (Dyspepsia)? - ANSWER ✔ - -LES= lower esophageal sphincter or Cardiac Sphincter.
When you swallow, what substance is released into the stomach to break down food? - ANSWER ✔ - Hydrochloric Acid (HCL acid)
What substance breaks down protein in the stomach? - ANSWER ✔ - Pepsin
What is the mechanical part of the stomach? - ANSWER ✔ - Churning
What is the name of the substance that the stomach makes from digestion? - ANSWER ✔ - Chyme passes through the pyloric sphincter and dups into the duodenum
What are the 2 additional enzymes that the pancreas secretes? - ANSWER ✔ - -Lipase (fats)
-pepsidase (proteins) (sometimes called trypsin)
Lipase calls on what to help break down large amounts of fat? - ANSWER ✔ - Gallbladder for the secretion of bile helps break down large amounts of fat.
What is the role of Villi? Where can they be found? - ANSWER ✔ - -Absorbs small nutrients molecules from the digestive tract
-it only absorbs, carbs and proteins once broken down into the smallest possible units.
-found only in the small intestine mucosa
What organ makes bile? How? - ANSWER ✔ - Liver and it uses broken down RBC's and the chemicals secreted from lysis to it's storage unit (gallbladder)
What is the role of sodium bicarbonate? - ANSWER ✔ - Neutralizes chyme from the stomach, providing for optimal pancreatic function (produced in pancreas)
Anaerobic: - ANSWER ✔ - -Without O
-Glycolysis
-only makes 2 ATP molecules
-poor use of energy
-occurs in the cytoplasm
Aerobic: - ANSWER ✔ - -With O
-mitochondria
-end product is nutrient OXIDATION
What is the most abundant mineral/electrolyte/ion? - ANSWER ✔ - Sodium
What is the importance of vitamins B? - ANSWER ✔ - -Vitamins B's are for energy
-B1: energy for the brain (Thiamin)
-B9: Folate, Matures RBC's (folic acid)
-B12. Produces RBC (cyanocobalamin)
Where do you find folic acid? - ANSWER ✔ - Liver, onions
Where do you find the best source for quick cellular energy (simple carb) that also contains other
nutrients? - ANSWER ✔ - Milk
What is the Vet K for? Where can we find it? - ANSWER ✔ - -Clotting
-can be found in green leafy vegetables such as kale and spinach
Who is Vitamin C for? - ANSWER ✔ - Collagen
Where do you find potassium? - ANSWER ✔ - Legumes and bananas
Where does the urinary system start? - ANSWER ✔ - -begins in the kidneys
-urinary capsule keeps the shape/structure of the kidney
What do you find inside the kidney? - ANSWER ✔ - Nephrons, they are the location for cellular exchange, functional unit of the kidney
Where does filtration occur in the nephron? - ANSWER ✔ - Glomerulus
What structures release urine down from the kidneys to the bladder? - ANSWER ✔ - Ureters
What is the role of the bladder? - ANSWER ✔ - Store Urine
What does filtration require? - ANSWER ✔ - Pressure
What structure contains the testis? - ANSWER ✔ - Scrotum
Where does sperm mature? - ANSWER ✔ - Epididymis
Where is testosterone produced? - ANSWER ✔ - Testis
Where is semen produced? - ANSWER ✔ - Prostate but 70% is made in the seminal vesicle
How many gametes are made in meiosis? - ANSWER ✔ - 4
What makes a girl? What makes a boy? - ANSWER ✔ - -Girl: XX
-Girl: XY
What hormones causes ovulation? - ANSWER ✔ - LH
Vitamin B: - ANSWER ✔ - ATP (energy)
Vitamin C - ANSWER ✔ - Collagen
Vitamin D - ANSWER ✔ - Carry Ca2 to bones
Vitamin E - ANSWER ✔ - Immune system
Vitamin K - ANSWER ✔ - Klot
Calcium for bones, main mover for muscles and to carry Vitamin K to the liver to make clotting factors. -
ANSWER ✔ -
How sex cells divide? - ANSWER ✔ - Meiosis
Sex autosomes/ sex cells= 23 pairs - ANSWER ✔ -
Autosomes= 22 (trait characteristics) - ANSWER ✔ -
Anterior pituitary gland is responsible to release? - ANSWER ✔ - LH and FSH
Male sex hormone? - ANSWER ✔ - testosterone
Female sex Hormone? - ANSWER ✔ - Estrogen
Testis are responsible for making what? - ANSWER ✔ - Sperm
ovaries make? - ANSWER ✔ - Ova