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Question 1

Blood

Utilizing knowledge from your learning and assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

1. Which of the formed elements would increase after the donation of a pint of blood and why?
2. Describe the three phases of the normal blood-clotting process.
3. Describe ABO and Rh blood groups.
4. Explain the antigen-antibody response as it relates to blood groups.

Question 2

The Heart

Utilizing knowledge from your learning and assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

1. Explain the significance of the thickness of the left ventricular wall.
2. The major coronary vessels are on the surface of the heart. What is the advantage of that location?
3. Since the SA node is at the top of the atrial mass, the atria contract from the top down. How does this increase the efficiency of atrial contraction? Do the ventricles have a similar arrangement? If so, how does it work?
4. What is the purpose of prolonged contraction of the myocardium?

Question 3

Circulation

Utilizing knowledge from your learning and assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

1. Compare and contrasts the anatomy and physiology of blood vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries. Why are these differences significant in the overall function of the circulatory system? Please be specific.
2. Provide several examples of factors that cause increases or decreases in peripheral resistance and discuss their effect on overall arterial blood pressure.

Question 4

Lymphatic and Immune Systems

Utilizing knowledge from your learning and assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

1. Describe and define the differences between the lymphatic system and immunity.
2. How do the innate and adaptive immune systems differ in their responses to foreign substances? Provide examples of each system.

Question 5

The Respiratory System

Utilizing knowledge from your learning and assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

1. What are the primary functions of the respiratory system?
2. Explain the roles of mucus and cilia in the respiratory system.
3. Explain the structure and function of the respiratory membrane.
4. Identify and describe the four distinct events that are collectively called respiration.
5. After a long scuba diving session on a Caribbean reef, a patient boards a plane to Dallas. He begins to feel pain in his elbow on the flight back to Dallas. What is happening to him?
6. Explain how hyperventilation and hypoventilation alter levels of carbon dioxide in the blood.