Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each

question 46

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each.
-Larynx

• A)Flexible windpipe reinforced with cartilage
• B)Detect carbonic acid in artery walls and signal the brain to stimulate faster and deeper breathing
• C)Oxygen-rich form of a respiratory protein
• D)Contains a pair of vocal cords
• E)Stimulate faster breathing in dangerous situations
• F)Part of the brainstem; controls breathing
• G)Throat passage behind the mouth
• H)One inhalation and one exhalation
• I)Connect trachea to lungs
• J)Flaplike structure that points upward allowing air to enter trachea, but blocks the larynx during swallowing
• K)Raise and lower the ribcage
• L)Microscopically small pockets lined with moist epithelium that function in gas exchange

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Definitions:

Glomerular Capsule

A cup-like sack at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron in the kidney that performs the first step in filtering blood to form urine.

Simple Cuboidal

A type of epithelial tissue with cube-shaped cells, often found lining glands and ducts, playing roles in secretion and absorption.

Simple Squamous

A single layer of flat cells lining surfaces where passive diffusion of gases, liquids, or nutrients occurs.

Macrophages

Large white blood cells that engulf and digest cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes, and cancer cells in a process called phagocytosis.