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Chapter 12
Vertebrate Internal Anatomy
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2013

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What is used only for catching food and swallowing?
Definition
mouth
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What connects the mouth to the rest of the digestive system?
Definition
Esphagus
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Where does frog digestion actually begin?
Definition
Stomach
Term
What is a muscular valve in the frog that leads to the small intestine?
Definition
Pyloris (pyloric sphincter)
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Digestion continues after the stomach in the...
Definition
small intestine
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What releases juices that contain enzymes used to break down food?
Definition
Pancreas
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What is released into the small intestine and produced by the liver?
Definition
Bile
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Where is bile produced?
Definition
liver
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Where is bile stored?
Definition
gallbladder
Term
Wastes are passed on to the _________ where most _________ takes place.
Definition
Large intestine, water resoption
Term
Where is waste eliminated?
Definition
Cloaca
Term
What is also produced by the pancreas?
Definition
Insulin and glucagon for blood sugar
Term
What organs detoxify the blood?
Definition
Liver and kidneys
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What recycles red blood cells?
Definition
Spleen
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What are the yellow finger-like organs in a frog that act as storage?
Definition
Fat bodies
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The frog's urogential system includes bot the ______ system and the ______ system
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excretory and reproductive
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What system is responsible for removing metabolic wastes from the body?
Definition
Excretory
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What organs regulate the blood?
Definition
kidneys
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Urine is produced in the kidneys and it moves into the ______, which lead to the ______ where urine is stored until it is excreted from the _______.
Definition
Ureter, bladder, cloaca
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Males make sperm in the _____
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testes
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Sperm transported to the ______ and is released through the _____
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ureter, cloaca
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Females produce eggs in the _____
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ovaries
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Eggs are transported through the _____, stored in the _____, and laid through the ______.
Definition
Oviducts, uterus, cloaca
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Which mechanisms do frogs use to breathe?
Definition
lungs and skin
Term
What is the opening in the mouth that takes air to the lungs
Definition
glottis
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Frogs have a _____ chambered heart that consists of...
Definition
3, two atria and one ventricle
Term
What are blood vessels that move blood from the heart?
Definition
Arteries
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What are blood vessels that move blood back to the heart?
Definition
Veins
Term
What are tiny vessels that connect arteries and veins and where the diffusion of gases, nutrients, and wastes into and out of cells actually occurs?
Definition
capillaries
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