Nervous and Endocrine

Which one here reduces the amount of glucose in the blood?

• Glucagon

• Insulin

• Glycogen

• ADH

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A hormone is

• a chemical substance produced by a gland and carried by the lymph.

• an enzyme produced by a gland and carried by the blood.

• a chemical substance produced by an organ and carried by the blood.

• a chemical substance produced by a gland and carried by the blood.

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Hormones cause specific effects by ______.

• Flooding the entire body

• Targeting specific parts of the brain

• Targeting specific groups of cells in the body

• Spreading through the nervous system

Controls long term changes such as growth

• limbic system

• endocrine system

• nervous system

• temporal lobe

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The part of the nervous system that consists of nerves that branch out from the CNS and connect to other body parts

• Sympathetic

• Parasympathetic

• Autonomic

• Peripheral

Part of the peripheral that controls conscious activities

• autonomic

• somatic

• sympathetic

• parasympathetic

The _____part of the autonomic nervous system is active during resting.

• sympathetic

• parasympathetic

• somatic

• peripheral

The function of parasympathetic nervous system is bring the body back to homeostasis

• True

• False

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The _____ response is known as fight or flight.

• parasympathetic

• sympathetic

• somatic

• peripheral

Neurons are specialized nerve cell that transmits what type of message?

• Chemical

• electrochemical

• electric impulses