Movement of water across a membrane?
Osmosis
__________connection between articulating bones made up of cartilage?
Cartilaginous
_______ joints: highly moveable hinge, pivot, saddle
Synovial Joints
Two types of asexual reproduction?
Binary Fission and Mitosis
What links the nasopharynx to the middle ear?
Eustachian tube
Calciferol is controlled by?
Parathyroid Gland
Endocytosis?
engulfs and brings in
Excocytosis?
Fuses with plasma membrane and releases content outside of cell
Pituitary gland produces?
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Growth Hormone (GH)
Adrenal gland secretes?
Cortisol and aldosterone
Aerobic respiration?
takes place in the mitochondria and requires oxygen and glucose, and produces carbon dioxide, water, and energy.
What part of the respiratory system is in the upper respiratory?
Bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveoli
Aerobic respiration happens in presence of?
Oxygen
Which of the following statements is anatomically correct?
A.
The knee is distal to the ankle.
B. The heart is inferior to the
diaphragm
C. The hip is proximal to the knee
D. The wrist is
proximal to the elbow
C. The hip is proximal to the knee.
If you wanted to separate the abdominal cavity from the thoracic
cavity, which plane would you use?
A. Sagittal
B.
Transverse
C. Frontal
D. Coronal
B. Transverse
You have been given a sample tissue that has pillar shaped cells
arranged tightly together. The tissue you have is:
A. Squamous
Epithelium
B. Cuboidal Epithelium
C. Columnar
Epithelium
D. Transitional Epithelium
C. Columnar Epithelium
The epidermis is classified as a(n):
A. Cell
B.
Tissue
C. Organ
D. System
B. Tissue
The orthopedic surgeon informs you that you have broken the middle
region of the humerus. What area is he describing?
A.
Epiphysis
B. Articular cartilage
C. Perichondrium
D. Diaphysis
D. Diaphysis
Going for superior to inferior, the sequence of the vertebral column
is:
A. Sacral, coccyx, thoracic, lumbar, and cervical
B.
Coccyx, sacral, lumber, thoracic, and cervical
C. Cervical,
lumbar, thoracic, sacral, and coccyx
D. Cervical, thoracic,
lumbar, sacral, and coccyx
D. Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx
Which of the following is true of skeletal muscle? (select all that
apply)
A. Skeletal muscle comprises 10% of the body's
weight.
B. Skeletal muscle attaches to bones by tendons
C.
Muscle contraction helps keep the body warm
D. Skeletal muscles continuously contract to maintain posture.
B. Skeletal muscle attaches to bones by tendons
C. Muscle
contraction helps keep the body warm
D. Skeletal muscles continuously contract to maintain posture.
If an impulse is traveling from a sense receptor toward the spinal
cord, it is traveling along what type of neuron?
A. Motor
neuron
B. Sensory neuron
C. Interneuron
D. Bipolar neuron
B. Sensory neuron
What does the parathyroid hormone regulate?
A. Magnesium
B.
Calcium
C. Calcitonin
D. Glucocorticoids
B. Calcium
Which of the following epithelial types is correctly matched with its
major function?
A. Simple squamous epithelium - secretion
or absorption
B. Stratified squamous epithelium - changes shape
when stretched
C. Stratified squamous epithelium -
diffusion
D. Simple columnar epithelium - secretion or absorption
D. Simple columnar epithelium - secretion or absorption
A tissue examined under the microscope exhibits the following
characteristics: cells found on the internal surface of the stomach,
no extracellular matrix, cells tall and thin, no blood vessels in the
tissue. What type of tissue is this?
A.
Epithelial
B. Connective muscle
C. Cartilage
D. Nervous
A. Epithelial
_________ _________ also produces energy and uses glucose, but it produces less energy and does not require oxygen?
Anaerobic respiration