BIOS 1030  SI Week 12  Van Brocklyn

  1. What are the parts of a general sensory system?
  1. What does the brain use to interrupt the signal?
  1. What happens when a continuous stimulus is applied on your finger?
  1. Name the various type of receptors in the skin.
  1. Taste and smell are detections of ______.
  2. The taste buds are located in the ______of the tongue.
  3. What is the process that leads to taste?
  1. Different taste cells have different ______receptors, allowing for tasting different flavors.
  2. Describe how odorants cause an action potential.
  1. How many olfactory receptor cells do humans have compared to other animals.
  2. How can humans smell up to a trillion different scents?
  1. What does hearing detect?
  1. Label the auditory canal, tympanic membrane, malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), stapes (stirrup), cochlea, oval window, semicircular canals, and auditory tube.

  1. What is the function of the middle ear?
  1. Describe the process of how the sound waves create action potentials. (think about using some of the terms in question 13)
  1. How do we hear different types of sound?
  1. What is the function of the semicircular canals?

BIOS 1030  SI Week 12  Colvin

  1. How does the bone, meninges, cerebrospinal fluid, and blood-brain barrier protect the spinal cord and brain?
  1. Where is the cerebrospinal fluid produced?
  1. Contrast the white and grey matter of the spinal cord.
  1. What is the broad function of the spinal cord?
  1. Name and describe the three major divisions of the brain.
  1. Name and describe the three basic parts of the hindbrain.
  1. What is the reticular formation and what does it do?
  2. Name and describe the four divisions of the forebrain.
  1. The brain is divided into the right and left ______. What connects the hemispheres?
  1. What is the cerebral cortex?
  1. The cerebral cortex is divided into four lobes? What are these lobes and their functions?

Review

  1. How does the body monitor the levels of CO2 in the body?
  1. How does congestive heart failure impair lung function?
  1. What types of neurons are found in the body and what do they do?
  1. What are the functions of the Na/K pump?
  1. What is resting potential. What is this value in a typical cell membrane?
  1. Describe salutatory conduction.
  1. During an action potential, there is depolarization and repolarization. what happens to the ions during this process?