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| What are two main ways we signal in our body? |
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| Nervous and Endocrine system |
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| Chemical languages that we can interpret |
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signal outside of the body
A small often colatile chemical signal that functions in communications between animals |
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| Pheromone emiited by female American cockroaches |
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| What is the human pheromone called? |
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| What is the chemical signal that functions in communication between animals? |
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| What test did UC Berkley do to try and test pheromones? |
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| What is believed to evolve to chemically sense people? |
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| What do the volatile compounds in our mouth tell us? |
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IClicker question: It is said that two humans can be attracted to each other because they have the "right chemistry"?
A)"chemistry" is generally predictable
B)Predicatable about half of the time
C)very unpredicable |
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Of the following, which do yu think might be the best predictor of "chemistry"?
A)Facial features similar to your or facial features like one of your parents
B)simialar interest to yours
C)similar volatile chemicals or attractive chemicals
D)quality of mouth kissing |
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| What chemical signals are on the inside of organisms? |
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| Endocrine system and Nervous system |
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| Chemical signal secreted into body fluids |
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| What are hormones usually in? |
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| How effective are hormones? (time wise) |
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| How many nanomoles poer liter are in plasma testosterone? |
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| 1.3-2.3 nanomoles per liter |
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| How many millimoles are in the plasma glucose? |
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| How many glucose milecules for every one testosterone? |
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| 2 to 4 million glucose for every one testosterone |
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| energy source for the cell |
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| How dilute is 1/3 nmoles per liter? |
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| Ratio of water to testosterone molecules is 43 billion to one |
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| 43 billion sq ft in a square 40 by 40 miles |
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| What are amino acid derived hormones? |
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single smino acids
peptides
proteins
glycoproteins |
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| What are steroid (lipid soluble) hormones? |
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Made from cholesterol
include sex hormones |
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| What are the two ways hormones target specific cells? |
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| What is a surface receptor? |
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| Chemical signal binding ot receptor on plasma membrane |
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| What is an Internal receptor? |
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| Chemical signal binding to receptor cell |
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| What does steroid bind to? |
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| What are two examples of hormone action? |
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Glucose homeostasis
Stress and adrenal gland |
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| THe steady-state physiological condition of the body |
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| What is normal glucose level? |
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| What is glucose homeostasis? |
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Homeostasis: The steady-state physilogical condition of the body
Glucose: energy in the cell |
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| What motitors glucose levels? |
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| beta cells in the pancrease |
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| What do beta cells release into the blood to regulate glucose levels? |
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| gets into the blood stream, targets body cells, and goes to liver,and takes up glucose |
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| What happens if you need to increase blood glucose? |
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| glucagon stimulates the liver to break down glycogen releasing glucose |
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