Endocrine System Name

Guided Reading and Notes Sheet

Vocabulary

Pheromones, hormones, neurohormones, endocrine glands, signal transduction pathway, intracellular receptor, epinephrine, insulin,
glucagon, negative feedback, positive feedback, hypothalamus, anterior pituitary, posterior pituitary, tropic hormones, plant hormones,

1. What is a hormone?

2. What constitutes the endocrine system and what are its functions?

3. What are endocrine glands?

4. How do neurosecretory cells demonstrate the overlap between the endocrine and nervous system?

5. Review the basics of negative feedback by writing a statement to describe this endocrine process.

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6. Label the diagram below representing the basic patterns of hormonal control.

7. What are the three major classes of molecules that function as hormones in vertebrates?

8. Use the diagram below to review basics of signal transduction pathways.

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9. How can one chemical signal cause different effects?

14. What is the importance of tropic hormones?

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15. List three tropic hormones and their action.

18. List one example of a physiological response to overproduction and underproduction of growth hormone.

24. Complete the diagram below you have seen this before concerning glucose homeostasis.

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25. How does the body respond differently to long term and short term stress and why is this an advantage to
the organism?

29. What is the pineal gland and why is it important?

30. Label the diagram below representing hormonal regulation of insect development.

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Describe the following diagram. Use endocrine terminology in your response.

Plant Endocrinology
Chapter 39 [pages 792-812]

1. Define the following terms:

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 a. Etiolation

b. de-etiolation

c. second messengers

2. Explain the two ways that signaling pathways activate enzymes.

3. Define the following terms:

a. Tropism

b. phototropism

4. Explain the importance of auxin in plants

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 5. Define the following terms in a way that makes sense to you. Draw a simple sketch to visualize each.

a. heat-shock proteins

b. Phytoalexins

c. Ethylene

d. Salicylic acid

12. Other than light what types of stimulus do plants respond to?

13. Define gravitotropism:

14. What are 5 types of environmental stress?

15. Compare and contrast how plants defend themselves from herbivores and how they defend themselves
from pathogens.

17.Complete the following figure, and explain what it is showing.

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Read one of these articles and summarize, in a short paragraph, the basics of the experiment and the
outcome. In your paragraph, include a discussion of how the endocrine system is at work here.

Your Options:
- http://bachelorhell.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/cbl-sample-diet/
- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lack-of-sleep-may-lead-to-insulin-issues/

This is a 10 point formative assignment.

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