Exam 2: The Biological Perspective

Human beings have ______ pairs of chromosomes

The neural impulse traveling down the axon is _______;it gets across the synapse by _______.

Neurons are:

The nervous system is comprised of two major parts: __________.

The part of the neuron that carries outgoing messages either to another neuron or to a muscle or gland is the

The area in the back of the temporal lobe that is important in our ability to listen and in processing and understanding what others are saying is __________.

A young woman recovering from a blow to her head finds she has great difficulty maintaining her balance and coordinating her movements.Injury to which part of her brain is likely to be causing her difficulties?

Neural messages travel faster on axons which

The small gap between adjacent neurons is the:

Garfield is having great difficulty controlling his appetite.All he wants to do is eat and no matter how much he eats he is still hungry.His weight is approaching 400 pounds and he still constantly wants to eat.His physician says the problem is due to a disorder in a specific center of the brain.The brain center is most likely the __________.

The left and right cerebral hemispheres are connected by the:

If the limbic system were destroyed,which of the following structures would be damaged?

The human brain contains somewhere between __________ and __________ neurons.

The system that relays messages in the form of electrochemical impulses throughout the body is called __________.

The _______ looks like two wrinkled hemispheres.

Most axon terminals contain a number of tiny oval sacs called __________.

Neurons in the brain that carry messages from one neuron to another and do most of the work of the nervous system are called __________.

Dendrites:

The structure that connects the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex is the _________.

The left cerebral hemisphere primarily controls: