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Old 03-28-2013, 07:10 AM   #11356
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1. What are the main endocrine glands of the human body?
2. Why does the urinary volume increase when alcoholic beverages are ingested?
3. Why is there a sense of pressure change inside the ear when someone goes down a mountain?
4. What is the difference between gills and lungs?
5. On average what is the life duration of the red blood cells? Where are they destroyed?
1. Thyroid, pituitary, pancreas, ovaries/testes
2. Because they contain a lot of water?
3. The middle ear is sealed, except for the eustacian tubes. Going down a mountain, the outside air pressure increases, but the pressure in the middle ear doesn't, and you feel he difference on your ear-drum, until the pressures equalise through the eustacian tubes.
4. Gills extract oxygen from water, lungs from air.
5. About six weeks? They're destroyed in the liver, I think.
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