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What is the key structure in the vessels closest to the heart that allows these vessels to expand and contract to allow pulses of blood to move through and maintain blood pressure gradients?

Which of the following are uses of glucose that we get from our diet?

Which reflects the correct direction of filtrate flow through a nephron?

What microscopic structure increases surface area for nutrients to be absorbed?

During days 0-5 of the uterine cycle, which hormone is low?

When a person exercises, the rate of cellular respiration ______________ in order to make more _______________.  A bi-product of this is more ______________.

Match the type of vessel to its description.

The pressure gradient from a capillary bed back to the heart, through the veins, is 15 mg Hg.  Because the pressure gradient is so low other structures and mechanisms help move blood back to the heart.  These include:

Which of these hormones: moves through the blood with help from a protein and can move directly over the plasma membrane of the target cell without the help of a transport protein?

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