A Nursing Instructor Is Teaching Student Nurses About the Sympathetic

question 21

Multiple Choice

A nursing instructor is teaching student nurses about the sympathetic nervous system. The instructor recognizes that learning has occurred when the students say which of the following responses are regulated by the sympathetic nervous system?

• A) Bronchial constriction
• B) Stimulates salivation
• C) Sex organ stimulation
• D) Pupil dilation

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Definitions:

Mitosis

A kind of cell division that produces new cells having exactly the same number of chromosome pairs, and hence copies of genes, as the parent cell.

Cell Division

The process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells, critical for growth, reproduction, and repair in organisms.

Parent Cells

Cells that divide to produce daughter cells through the process of mitosis or meiosis, involved in growth, repair, and reproduction in living organisms.

Sister Chromatids

Identical copies of a single chromosome that are connected by a centromere and are formed during the replication phase of the cell cycle, crucial for genetic material distribution during cell division.