Questão 1
Questão
What is the term used to describe the body's way of maintaining internal conditions?
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Body-balance
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Homeostasis
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Corpomaintenance
Questão 2
Questão
How is urea made?
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Breaking down urine molecules
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Deamination of amino acids
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Product of anaerobic respiration
Questão 3
Questão
Which of these are the main types of homeostasis?
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Thermoregulation
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Fluororegulation
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Hydroregulation
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Osmoregulation
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Glucoregulation
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Haemoregulation
Questão 4
Questão
Which of these are structures found in the human kidney?
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Bowman's capsule
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Renal artery
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Carotid artery
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Nephron
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Diaphragm
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Islets of Langerhans
Questão 5
Questão
What is the name of the process of changing the rate of reabsorption in the kidneys?
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Ultrafiltration
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Selective reabsorption
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Renal feedback
Questão 6
Questão
True or false? Urine is coloured yellow due to the presence of urobilins.
Questão 7
Questão
True or false? Dialysis is a natural process occurring in the human body.
Questão 8
Questão
Which of these does dialysis fluid not contain?
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Glucose
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Mineral ions
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Urea
Questão 9
Questão
True or false? Immunosuppressant drugs lower the risk of complications and diseases during a transplant.
Questão 10
Questão
True or false? Xenotransplantation involves the abstraction of human organs from genetically engineered pigs.
Questão 11
Questão
How high is the normal human core body temperature?
Questão 12
Questão
Where is the thermoregulatory centre located?
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Hypothalamus
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Pons
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Pituitary gland
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Spleen
Questão 13
Questão
Which of these processes occur when the core body temperature rises?
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Vasodilation
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Vasoconstriction
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Sweating
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Shivering
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Hairs lie flat
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Hairs stand on end
Questão 14
Questão
Which of these processes occur when the core body temperature falls?
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Vasodilation
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Vasoconstriction
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Sweating
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Shivering
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Hairs lie flat
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Hairs stand on end
Questão 15
Questão
True or false? Everyone in the UK automatically becomes an organ donor unless they opt out.
Questão 16
Questão
True or false? Elderly people are more likely to suffer from hypothermia, contributing to the excess winter mortality.
Questão 17
Questão
Where is the hormone insulin produced?
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Thyroid gland
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Pancreas
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Spleen
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Pituitary gland
Questão 18
Questão
What does insulin do?
Questão 19
Questão
What does glucagon do?
Questão 20
Questão
True or false? Type 2 diabetes is the type of diabetes in which the pancreas makes insufficient insulin.