SCI306 Midterm Study Guide 2014
Make sure that you study well in advance, as there is A LOT of material that you are responsible for
knowing. The following is designed to help guide your studying. Make sure that you can do these
questions before the exam.
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Reproductive System
What is DNA? What are genes? What are chromosomes?
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What is mitosis? What is meiosis? How do they differ? Why do we need each of these
processes?
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What is puberty
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What are hormones
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What are the main hormones that trigger puberty
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What are primary and secondary characteristics of puberty
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Know the 3 primary events (menstrual, proliferation, and secretory stage ) in the menstrual
cycle and the event occurring for each
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Digestive System/Nutrition
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How to properly label a diagram of the digestive system
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How each part of the digestive system breaks down food (think back to your comic
strip..)
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What do food and nutrients do for our body?
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What are the six essential nutrients? What is the function of each nutrient? Which
types of food contain each nutrient?
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Which nutrients contain the most energy? the least?
Circulatory/Respiratory System
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How to label a diagram of the respiratory system
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What each structure in the respiratory system is responsible for
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How do we breathe?
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How oxygen gets from the air, through the respiratory/circulatory systems and to our organs
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How gas exchange works within the alveoli in the lungs (what is diffusion)
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What are the different components of blood and what role do they have within the body
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What are the 8 different blood types
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Which blood types are compatible with each other with respect to blood transfusions
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What are names of the blood vessels within your body, and what role does each have.
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What path does blood take through the body
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How to label a diagram of the heart
Excretory/Lymphatic System
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What is the function of the lymphatic system? How does it work?
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What are the parts of the excretory system? What role do they serve in our body?
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