Answer:
The pituitary gland refers to a small gland, which is situated in the sella turcica. It is considered the master gland of the body. The pituitary gland comprises two prime parts, the posterior pituitary gland and the anterior pituitary gland. The anterior pituitary gland produces six hormones and discharged them into the bloodstream.
The following are the hormones produced by anterior pituitary gland:
1. The growth hormone that monitors metabolism, growth and body composition.
2. Adrenocorticotropic hormone that instigates the adrenal glands to produce steroid hormones, mainly cortisol.
3. Follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone, also called gonadotropins, which functions on the testes or ovaries to instigate the production of sex hormone, and maturity of sperm and egg.
4. The thyroid-stimulating hormone that instigates the thyroid gland to discharge thyroid hormones.
5. Prolactin that instigates the production of milk.
Answer:
Since all forms of bacteria are prokaryotic and in turn unicellular their offspring don’t have to undergo a long period of gestation and growth prior to relative maturity. Whereas any organism (for the most part) in the animila kingdom do and any animal also require a mate. So one major benefit of bacteria being capable of asexual reproduction is they don’t require a mate to reproduce hence the name ASEXUAL. Also, another benefit I vaguely/briefly mentioned is the ability to reproduce at a faster rate than many if not all eukaryotic organisms. For example E.coli a type of bacteria can reproduce in as little as 20 minutes if I recall correctly.
Explanation:
Bones shape our body and help is to stand up straight. Muscles are attached to bones, they help us walk and run and smile. All the bones in our body make up our skeleton - from the top of our skill to the tips of our phalanges at the end of our toes. Muscles stretch across our bones and are attached with tendons.
Means they are related through a common distant ancestor. This shows that these structures (morphology) are homologous. They all have 7 neck (cervical) vertebrae, but giraffes cervical vertebrae are elongated compared to that of humans due to their adaptation as browsers .
<span>Spleen is also known as the graveyard of RBC, if it helps u
1.Stem cells in bone marrow make all blood cells. RBC lives about 120 days.
RBC are destroyed in Spleen. This process takes place as:
- RBCs are ruptured.
- Heme and globin portions separated.
- Globin > amino acids.
- Iron transferred in transferrin into the blood > into bone marrow for reuse.
- Heme > Biliverdin > Bilirubin > liver >small intestine.
2.Reticuloendothelial cells participate in the destruction of senescent RBC's. The spleen is a well suited site of RBC destruction given that cells must course through 2-3 micron apertures in the walls of splenic sinusoids, which is an ultimate test of cell pliability. Rigid cells are entrapped and phagocytosed. Intra-erythrocyte inclusions are removed during splenic circulation.
Destruction of RBCs happens within reticuloendothelial cells – NOT in the circulation. Globin and heme get recycled, porphyrin is degraded to bilirubin which is conjugated by the liver and excreted in the gut. Rate limiting step is conjugation. Indirect (unconjugated) bilirubin is result if this doesn’t happen.
Normally ~10% RBCs lyse while in circulation Þ Hgb gets released into circulation and rapidly disassociates into alpha and beta dimers which are bound by haptoglobin. The Hgb/haptoglobin complex is transported to the liver. If haptoglobin is depleted, free Hgb circulates and is filtered by the kidney. Free Hgb is either reabsorbed by renal tubular cells or excreted as free Hgb in the urine.
3. Another site reported that
RBC destroyed in liver and spleen, by macrophages. 2 million destroyed per second.
Hb is released and iron is recovered and returned to bone marrow.</span>
