BIOS 255 Week 8 Final Exam: Potential Essays
BIOS 255 Week 8 Final Exam: Potential Essays
- Describe innate and adaptive immune systems, how they work and how they interact.
- Explain the various subclasses of antibodies – how they are similar, how they differ.
- Define ventilation, external respiration and internal respiration. Be sure to identify their functions and were they occur.
- Explain the neural control of ventilation including brain centers, sensory and motor signals.
- Describe how oxygen and carbon dioxide are transported in the blood with a special emphasis on the factors that affect the loading/unloading of these gases in the lungs vs. tissues.
- List and briefly describe the major functions of the various subclasses of T-cells.
- Explain the similarities and differences between primary and secondary responses of the adaptive immune response
- Functions of the Spleen
- All muscles used in exhaling and inhaling
- Know the characteristics of the thymus
- Know the components of the lymphatic system
- Know the conduction system for air
- Where gas exchange occurs in the lung and how this occurs
- Function of RBCs, T-cells, B-cells, Cytotoxic T cells, Natural killer cells
- Return of lymph to venous circulation.
- Know the process of inhalation and exhalation (the steps involved)