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(2023/ 2024 Update)
Q: What is it called when you get used to someone’s strong perfume?
Answer:
Adaptation
Q: Hormones that directly affect DNA within the nucleus of a cell?
Answer:
Steroidal based
Q: Target tissues of growth hormone
Answer:
liver, adipose tissue, muscle tissue, bone and cartilage
Q: Classes of photoreceptors found in the eye
Answer:
Short-wavelength cones (blue), medium-wavelength cones (green), long-wavelength cones (red)
and rods.
Q: What glands are endocrine glands?
Answer:
hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, parathyroids, adrenals, pancreas, pineal body, the
ovaries, and the testes.
Q: Receptors in the body
Answer:
nociceptors, mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, and
propriorecetors
Q: Mechanoreceptors
Answer:
Respond to touch, pressure, vibration, and stretch
Q: Chemoreceptors
Answer:
Chemical sensors in the brain and blood vessels that identify changing levels of oxygen and
carbon dioxide
Q: Thermoreceptors
Answer:
Respond to changes in temperature
Q: Proprioreceptors
Answer:
Type of sensory receptor that monitors the body’s position in space.