Exam Information
Exam 4 MC redo--due July 28. Exam 4 MC Questions: 10:30 am class; 6:00 pm class
Final Exam--July 28. Provisional study guide. Take home essays will be due July 28th, at the time of your exam. They should be properly cited and should be in an essay format (no flow charts unless used as a figure). Make sure your answers are in your own words
Exam 3 MC redo--due July 21. Exam 3 MC Questions.
Exam 4--July 23 will be on Chapter 21 and 22. Study guide
Possible essay questions include:
1. What are the three phases that regulate gastric secretion and what are the hormones involved in regulating motility and secretory activity?
2. Describe the breakdown and absorption of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids.
3. List the different factors that affect binding of oxygen to hemoglobin. Discuss how they operate during internal and external respiration.
4. Discuss how the nervous system regulates breathing. How does it respond to changes in PCO2, PO2 and H+?
Quiz 4--July 16 will be on alveolar anatomy, inspiration, expiration, muscles of inhalation and exhalation, Boyle's Law, factors affecting ventilation, and lung volumes (includes spirogram).
Exam 3--July 9 will be on Chapters 18 and 20. Chapter 19 does provide background information for 20 but will not be specifically on the exam.
Possible essay questions include:
Describe the different neural and endocrine mechanisms responsible for controlling blood pressure. What is systolic and diastolic blood pressure and what is the normal blood pressure for someone your age.
What is complement? Describe its role in both the innate and adaptive immune responses and describe the process by which it causes bacterial lysis.
What is a dendritic cell and how does it function in the responses of the innate and adpative immune system?
Describe the specific roles of helper, cytotoxic and memory T cells in normal cell-mediated immunity.
Exam 2 Redo--due July 7. Link to Exam 2 MC questions.
Quiz 3--July 2 will be on the lymph system.. Know the flow of lymph, the function of lymph, details on lymph nodes, spleen and thymus.
Exam 2--June 25 will be on Chapters 16 and 17
Possible essay questions include:
Define hemostasis and list the three major steps that take place in hemostasis. Explain what initiates each step and what the step accomplishes. How do the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of clotting differ and what does the common pathway accomplish? What ion is essential to virtually all stages of coagulation?
Describe the life process of a red blood cell starting with erythropoesis and ending with its death and catabolism. Discuss the recycling or elimination of the products of RBC catabolism.
Draw a normal ECG pattern. Label and explain the significance of its deflection waves.
Compare and contrast an athlete and his or her parent who suffers from high blood pressure. Include a discussion on how heart rate and stroke volume affect cardiac output.
Exam 1 Redo--Due June 23. Follow the instructions above on redoing multiple choice questions (MC). Please type your responses. Link to Exam 1 MC questions
Quiz 2--June 18 will be on the formed elements in blood. Know the structural characteristics and function of erythrocytes and leukocytes. You do not need to know production, development and fate (death) of the cells at this time. That will be covered on the exam.
Quiz 1--June 4 will be on the Autonomic Nervous System. Be able to compare and contrast the somatic and autonomic nervous system. Know the neurotransmitters released and the receptors for the different neurotransmitters for somatic and the two divisions of the ANS, parasympathetic and sympathetic.
Exam 1--June 11 will be on Chapters 14 and 15. Make sure you can answer the question in the back of the chapters. I could use some of them for short answer questions.
Possible essay questions:
Beverly was driving in her car at night with her young son when she was hit by a drunk driver on the back passenger side of the car. Her son, Dylan was severely injured and over the next six months had to undergo numerous surgeries. Describe Beverly's physiological response to the initial accident and then describe her physiological response over the next six months.
Describe the physiological responses to prolonged exercising. What division of the ANS is active and how does exercise affect appetite and mood? Why do some people with anorexia nervosa get addicted to exercising?
Describe the pathway that leads to thyroid hormone production and release. Mention the hormonal signals from the brain, how T3and T4 are made and how they are transported in the blood.
Describe the regulation of glucose in the body. What are the controlled amounts of glucose and what other hormones besides insulin and glucagon can affect glucose levels?