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Answer the following questions about the brain in the picture. Name structure A: _______________________________ Name structure B: _______________________________ Name structure C: _______________________________

The nerve you chose in the previous question has a second function.  What is it?

Which type of transport is needed to absorb digested glucose from the small intestinal lumen into the simple columnar epithelial cells?  (Hint: this is what is used to get glucose into the intestinal cells not out!)

Cutting a spinal nerve would cause which of the following problems?

A synaptic transmission only lasts for a few milliseconds as the ligand is removed from the ligand-gated channel by all of the following mechanisms EXCEPT:

Uses adrenergic neurons and receptors.

According to your book, how many NET ATP are made in the electron transport system per glucose molecule? ______ _______

What type of chemical bond is broken when NaCl is placed in water?  Hint: It’s a bond in which an electron is completely transferred from one atom in a compound to another!

The brain stem consist of:

Passive cell transport process that does not require ATP.  Substances move through the cell membrane from high concentration to low concentration without using a carrier protein or protein channel;