Centennial CollegeABIO 012ACE Biology Module 2 Endocrine Assignment ( ALL ANSWERS ARE 100% CORRECT )

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Endocrine Assignment (50 pts.) 1. What is an exocrine gland? Include two examples in your answer. 2. What is an endocrine gland? 3. What is a hormone? 4. According to the Britannica.Com vide ... o ‘The Endocrine System’ what six endocrine glands are most important for adults? (6 marks) 5. What is secreted into the capillaries that run through each endocrine gland? 6. Hormones travel throughout our body’s bloodstream, but only influence what? Specific target cells 7. Every target cell has what? Explain the relationship of this with a hormone. (2 marks) 8. Hormone receptors are located where? Hint: two possible locations. (2 marks) 9. Are cells, without receptors for a particular hormone, affected by that hormone? 10. What are the 10 endocrine glands listed in your online lecture? (10 marks) 11. Fill in this chart. (6 marks) HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASING HORMONE EFFECT ON PITUITARY 12. What endocrine gland is sometimes called the “master gland”? 13. Fill in this chart. (12 marks) HORMONES PRODUCED BY ANTERIOR PITUITARY 14. Fill in this chart. (6 marks) HORMONES PRODUCED BY FUNCTION OF HORMONE 15. How is hormone secretion controlled? 16. Our pituitary gland produces TSH. What does TSH stand for? 17. Where is the hypothalamus located? 18. Where is the thyroid located? 19. How many parathyroid glands are there? Where are they located? (2 marks) 20. What hormone do the parathyroid glands produce? What does this hormone regulate? (2 marks) 21. Low blood calcium results in what? 22. Where is the pancreas located? 23. What is unique about the pancreas, in terms of endocrine and exocrine glands? 24. What two hormones does the endocrine part of the pancreas produce? 25. The pancreas releases digestive enzymes to the small intestine through what duct? 26. Two types of cells in the Islets of Langerhans are important for blood sugar level regulation. What is the name of each type of cell and what does it produce? (2 marks) 27. Insulin enables glucose to do what? 28. Where is excess glucose stored? In what form? (2 marks) 29. What does glucagon do? 30. How many adrenal glands do we have? Where are they located? 31. What does the adrenal cortex secrete? (three things) 32. What does the adrenal medulla secrete? (two things) 33. Fill in the missing portions of the right column of this chart. (8 marks) ADRENAL GLANDS FUNCTION 34. The thymus is a gland needed early in life for what? 35. Where is the pineal gland located? What hormone does the pineal gland secrete? What is the function of this hormone? (3 marks) 36. What hormone do the testes produce? 37. Production of the male sex hormone is under the control of what two gonadotropic (GnRH) produced by the anterior pituitary? 38. What two hormones do the ovaries produce? 39. Why can steroid hormones penetrate the cell membrane? 40. Non-steroid hormones stimulate the production of an intracellular second messenger called what? 41. A cascade of enzyme-catalyzed reactions makes possible a very great amplification of the effects of the original hormone-binding event. 42. Prostaglandins are not made by endocrine glands. They are made by what body cells? 43. Where do prostaglandins work? [Show More]

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