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Final Exam Study Guide / Practice Test
1. What are fibrous joints made of and what do they connect? (a) a. Dense connective tissue, bones
b. Dense connective tissue, muscles
c. Irregular dense connective tissue, bones
d. Irregular dense connective tissue, muscles
2. What do synovial joints allow? (c)
a. Partial movement
b. No movement
c. Free movement
d. None of the above
3. Where is the ball and socket joint located?
a. Between metacarpals and phalanges
b. Hip and shoulder
c. Between carpals and tarsals
d. Elbow
e. Between proximal ends of ulna and radius
f. Between carpal and metacarpal of thumb
4. What is not one of the 3 Cs? (d)
a. Collateral ligaments
b. Cruciate ligaments
c. Cartilage (menisci)
d. Collateral tendons
5. What is the order of the connective tissue sheaths of skeletal muscle from external to internal? (a)
a. Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium
b. Endomysium, perimysium, epimysium
c. Perimysium, epimysium, endomysium
d. Perimysium, endomysium, epimysium
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a. Sarcoplasm
b. Sarcolemma
c. Cell
d. Sarcomere
7. What anchors thin filaments? (a)
a. Z line
b. M line
c. A band
d. I band
8. What stores and regulates calcium? (c)
a. Sarcolemma
b. Sarcomere
c. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
d. None of the Above
9. What triggers the muscle to contract? (c)
a. Nerve ending
b. Muscle fiber
c. The increase in intracellular calcium
d. The decrease in intracellular calcium
10.Where the axon terminal meets the muscle fiber is known as the _________. (b) a. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
b. Neuromuscular junction
c. Sliding filament
d. None of these
11.Where is action potential conducted? (c)
a. Along the plasma membrane of muscle
b. Along the plasma membrane of a nerve fiber
c. Along the plasma membrane of a muscle or nerve fiber
d. None of the above We also discuss several other topics like Define puberty.
12.Muscle contraction requires ATP and _______. (b)
a. Potassium
b. Calcium
c. Sodium
d. None of the Above
13. Which is the correct order for sliding filament contraction? (c) a. Thick filaments slide past thin, I bands shorten, sarcomere shortens, h zones disappear, a bands move closer together
b. Thin filaments slide past thick filaments, sarcomere shortens, I bands shorten, a bands move closer together, h zones disappear
c. Thin filaments slide past thick filaments, I bands shorten, sarcomere shortens, h zones disappear, a bands move closer together
d. Thick filaments slide past thin filaments, sarcomere shortens, I bands shorten, a bands move closer together, h zones disappear
14.Which of the following is not one of the functions of the nervous system? (c) a. Sensory input
b. Integration
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d. Motor output
15.What system are spinal nerves and cranial nerves in? (a)
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b. Central nervous system
c. Both
d. Neither
16.The gustatory cortex is associated with ________. (d)
a. Balance
b. Hearing
c. Speech
d. Taste
17.What are the motor areas? (d)
a. Primary, premotor, broca’s area
b. Frontal eye field
c. Auditory field
d. A & B
18.What is the rhombencephalon? (a)
a. Hindbrain
b. Forebrain
c. Midbrain
19.What do the brain and spinal cord start out as? (b)
a. Axon
b. Neural tube
c. Dendrite
d. Cell body
20. White matter is (b)
a. The same as gray matter, just in another part of the brain. b. dense collection of myelinated fibers in the CNS that are usually fiber tracts
c. neuron cell bodies
d. none of the above
21. Anterograde movement in axons moves _______ the cell body. (b) a. Toward
b. Away
22.Astrocytes are similar to (a)
a. satellite cells
b. swann cells
23.How do the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems relate to each other? (a)
a. They work in opposition to each other
b. They work parallel to each other
c. They don’t relate
24.What does the autonomic nervous system regulate? (e)
a. Smooth muscle
b. Cardiac muscle
c. Glands
d. A & B
e. All of the above
25.What do visceral sensory fibers do? (b)
a. Smooth muscle
b. Cardiac muscle
c. Glands
d. A & B
e. All of the above
26.What are sensory receptors classified by? (d)
a. Stimulus type
b. Location, stimulus type
c. Location, stimulus type, number, receptor structure
d. Receptor structure, location, stimulus type
27.These respond to light touch and are found in the stratum basale. (a) a. Merkel discs
b. Hair follicle receptors
c. Meissner’s corpuscles
d. None of these
28.Which of these are not encapsulated? (c)
a. Meissner’s corpuscles
b. Muscle Spindles
c. Hair follicle receptors
d. Pacinian corpuscles
29.Order the connective tissue coverings in the peripheral nervous system from inner most to outer most. (d)
a. Endoneurium, epineurium, perineurium
b. Perineurium, epineurium, Endoneurium
c. Epineurium, perineurium, Endoneurium
d. Endoneurium, perineurium, epineurium
30.What is the most basic function of the trochlear nerve? (a) a. Motor
b. Sensory
c. Sensory and motor
31.Where does the optic nerve arise from? (c)
a. Cornea
b. Lens
c. Retina
d. Optic disc
32.What nerve is associated with swallowing and speech? (d) a. Vagus
b. Abducens
c. Glossopharyngeal
d. Hypoglossal
33.What effect do the neurotransmitters have in the somatic nervous system? (a)
a. Inhibitory
b. Stimulatory
c. Inhibitory or stimulatory
34.When both the parasympathetic and sympathetic divisions are serving but cause opposite effects this is known as ________. (b)
a. Antagonistic effect
b. Dual innervation
c. Cooperative effect
35.What is an example of cooperative effects in the autonomic nervous system? (d)
a. Increasing heart rate
b. Decreasing respiratory rate
c. Digestive tract operations
d. Control of external genitalia
36.Which of these is not a special sense? (a)
a. Touch
b. Smell
c. Hear
d. Taste
e. Vision
37.In the gustatory pathway, what nerve transmits impulses from the epiglottis and lower pharynx? (b)
a. Facial
b. Vagus
c. Glossopharyngeal
d. None of these
38.The anterior segment of the eye is filled with _______________. (a) a. Aqueous humor
b. Vitreous humor
39.What are the 2 regions of the fibrous layer of the eye? (b) a. Sclera and retina
b. Sclera and cornea
c. Cornea and iris
d. Iris and retina
40.The parietal pleura is a serous membrane that lines the (c) a. Heart
b. Abdominal cavity
c. Thoracic cavity
d. Lungs
41.Which of the components of the lipid bilayer makes up 75% of its composition? (a)
a. Phospholipid
b. Cholesterol
c. Calcium
d. Oxygen
42.A gland that discharges a portion of its cells into a duct is (b)
a. Holocrine
b. Apocrine
c. Endocrine
d. Exocrine
43.Dense regular connective tissue that attaches bone to bone is called ___________. (d)
a. Tendon
b. Fascia
c. Aponeuroses
d. Ligament
44.Which of these is in compact and spongy bone? (c)
a. Osteon
b. Central canal
c. Lacuna
d. None of these
45.The deepest layer of the cutaneous membrane is the (c)
a. Basal lamina
b. Epidermis
c. Dermis
d. None of these
46.Which is only found in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet? (a) a. Stratum lucidum
b. Stratum basale
c. Stratum granulosum
d. None of these
47.What is the order of the epidermis from deep to superficial? (a) a. Stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum
b. Muscle, epidermis, dermis
c. Stratum corneum, stratum granulosum, stratum basale
48.What bone doesn’t contain a shaft? (d)
a. Irregular
b. Long
c. Short
d. Flat
49.Which bones develop within a tendon? (a)
a. Sesamoid
b. Long
c. Short
d. Two of these
50.The space between spongy bone is filled with ___________. (b) a. Yellow bone marrow
b. Red bone marrow
c. Both of these
d. Neither