What is the term used to describe the body's way of maintaining internal conditions?
Body-balance
Homeostasis
Corpomaintenance
How is urea made?
Breaking down urine molecules
Deamination of amino acids
Product of anaerobic respiration
Which of these are the main types of homeostasis?
Thermoregulation
Fluororegulation
Hydroregulation
Osmoregulation
Glucoregulation
Haemoregulation
Which of these are structures found in the human kidney?
Bowman's capsule
Renal artery
Carotid artery
Nephron
Diaphragm
Islets of Langerhans
What is the name of the process of changing the rate of reabsorption in the kidneys?
Ultrafiltration
Selective reabsorption
Renal feedback
True or false? Urine is coloured yellow due to the presence of urobilins.
True or false? Dialysis is a natural process occurring in the human body.
Which of these does dialysis fluid not contain?
Glucose
Mineral ions
Urea
True or false? Immunosuppressant drugs lower the risk of complications and diseases during a transplant.
True or false? Xenotransplantation involves the abstraction of human organs from genetically engineered pigs.
How high is the normal human core body temperature?
33°C
35°C
37°C
39°C
41°C
Where is the thermoregulatory centre located?
Hypothalamus
Pons
Pituitary gland
Spleen
Which of these processes occur when the core body temperature rises?
Vasodilation
Vasoconstriction
Sweating
Shivering
Hairs lie flat
Hairs stand on end
Which of these processes occur when the core body temperature falls?
True or false? Everyone in the UK automatically becomes an organ donor unless they opt out.
True or false? Elderly people are more likely to suffer from hypothermia, contributing to the excess winter mortality.
Where is the hormone insulin produced?
Thyroid gland
Pancreas
What does insulin do?
Cause glucose to be stored in the liver as glycogen
Cause glycogen to broken into glucose and released into the blood
What does glucagon do?
Cause glycogen to be broken into glucose and released into the blood
True or false? Type 2 diabetes is the type of diabetes in which the pancreas makes insufficient insulin.
