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| What chews and releases a saliva enzyme to rbeak down carbos to sugar? |
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| T/F. The skeletal system is only responsible for supporting the body. |
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| False, it is responsible for many other things |
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| What enzyme is made in the mouth? |
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| What is the 25 cm tube leading to the stomach? |
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| What is thick and muscular and has internal folds to churn food? |
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| What enzyme splits proteins? |
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| What enzyme breaks up substances and dissolved minerals? |
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| What coats and protects the stomach from digesting itself? |
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| What reabsorbs water, minerals, and vitamins back into the body? |
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| What happens to the rest of the stuff that passes through the large intestine? |
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| It goes out the anus as a solid mass <------ so that's the scientific way of taking a crap. |
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| Where does most digestion occur? |
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| What is the small intestine lined with? |
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| What breaks down carbos, fats, proteins, and helps the small intestine digest? |
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| What secretes bile and filters out poison substances? |
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| What are the twp filaments that make up myofibrils? |
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| What is made possible by the contraction and relaxation of muscles? |
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| T/F. A skeletal muscle consists of bundles of fibers. |
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| What happens when a skeletal muscle receives a signal from a nerve? |
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| Calcium is released causung the fibers to contract |
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| The presence of calcium causes what to happen between the myosin and actin? |
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| What is thinner? Myosin or actin. |
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| When a contraction is happening, the actin filaments are pulled? (direction) |
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| Muscles work in __________ pairs. |
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| Which type of bone endures stress? |
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| What is the tough outer membrane containing bloodvessels and nerves? |
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| What plate is near the end of long bones? |
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| As you age, what happens to cartilage? |
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| It is replaced by bone cells |
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| Where is red bone marrow found? |
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| spongy bone, end of long bones, ribs, vertebrae, etc |
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| What does the red bone marrow produce? |
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| Red blood cells & White blood cells |
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| What is made mostly of fat cells and is an energy resevoir? |
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| What is the framework of support, muscle attachment, shape and support of organs? |
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| T/F. Yellow bone marrow can be converted to Red marrow to produce blood cells |
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| Besides enduring stress, compact bone also does what to the living bone tissue? |
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| What is an osteocyte? What do osteoclasts do? What is osteoporosis? |
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1-living bone cells filling bone gaps
2-steal bone calcium and puts it in blood
3-When the bone starts to lose its calcium |
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