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Which of the following is NOT a function of dendrites?  

All of the following will help the skin to fight infection but one. Which of the following will have little effect on the skin’s ability to fight infection?  

Choose only ONE question below and respond fully. Identify which question your are responding to, answer in essay format(NOT BULLET FORMAT) Fully respond to the question in order to receive points. No copy and pasting or no credit will be given, use your own words to  interpret the material. A. While the fingers can exhibit flexion and extension and other angular motions, the thumb has much greater freedom. Explain why this is the case.    B. What is the somatosensory homunculus? Which body region would be larger in the homunculus, the face or the hips? Why?   C. Sally, a 5-year-old child, was bitten on the hand by a bat that was later diagnosed with rabies. She was immediately treated after the bite but had to go through a series of more involved treatments after the rabies diagnosis in the bat that bit her. How does the rabies virus get to the brain from a simple hand wound?

There will be a total of six lecture exams throughout the course. Is this statement true or false? 

I do not need to attend the weekly zoom sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:00 am. Is this statement true or false. 

Describe the fluid mosaic model, as well as the structure and function. 

Compare and contrast anabolic reactions vs catabolic reactions. Give examples of each. 

BONUS POINTS –  Do not skip this question! Why do the isotopes of the same element have the same atomic size? Why do the isotopes of the same element have different mass numbers?

A sick child has a temperature of 40.00 °C.   What is the child’s temperature in K?

In this course we will have lecture Monday, Wednesday and Friday.