Chapter 1 test

Organs: bones

Functions: support the body, act as framework, protect internal organs

Organs: muscles (technically heart; lungs)

Functions: help move the skeleton, help organ systems work, help maintain body temperature

Organs: brain, spinal chord, nerves

Functions: regulate body by nerve impulses

Organs: glands that produce hormones

Functions: detect changes and feel sensations, initiate appropriate responses, organize info for immediate/future use.

Organs: blood, heart, blood vessels

Functions: pump blood, maintain fluid, transfer blood, regulation, and protection

Organs: lymph, lymph vessels, lymphatic tissue, lymphnodes, nodules, spleen, thymus gland

Function: return fluid into the blood, protect the body against foreign material

Organs: teeth, tounge, salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, liver, gulbladder, pancreas, large intestine

Function: break down food and eliminate solid wastes

Organs: kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra

Function: maintain volume and pH of blood and tissue fluid

Organs: testes, penis, seminal vesicles, prostate, ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, mammary glands

Function: production and growth of offspring

Metabolism

Responsiveness

Movement

Growth

Differentiation

Reproduction

the condition of equalibrium in the body's internal environment produced by the ceaseless interplay of all the body's regulatory processes

• Receptor
• monitor and control condition
• Control Center
• determines next action
• Effector
• recieves direction from control center
• produces a response that changes the controlled condition
• General Principals
• a cycle of events in which info about the status of a condition is continually monitered fed back (reported) to a central control reigon
• Any disruptions that changes a controlled condition is called a stimuli