Integumentary System Notes

Integumentary System Notes

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The functions of the skin include all of these except:

• taking in nutrients

• Reducing water loss

• preventing the entry of microorganisms

• regulating body temperature

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How is skin color determined?

• how much melanin is produced from a melanocyte regulated by DNA
• depends on parents
• its 100% random
• depends on area you are born in

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What part of a hair can be seen?

• Follicle

• Matrix

• Root

• Shaft

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The sweat gland that produces "stinky" sweat is the 

• Apocrine gland
• Eccrine gland
• Sudoriferous gland
• Sebaceous gland

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Deeper cuts occur

• Above the epidermis
• Directly below the epidermis
• Below the dermis
• In the stratum corneum