Question 1
Both the epidermis and dermis contain blood vessels.
Question 2
Which statement is true regarding a spinal (peripheral)
nerve?
Question 3
The autonomic nervous system will innervate both internal
organs and skeletal muscles.
Question 4
Wolff?s law of bone states that bone density is directly
related to the stress placed on the bone.
Question 5
Which of the following is NOT necessary for muscle
contraction to occur?
Question 6
The sense of taste depends upon the binding of food
molecules dissolved in saliva onto sensory hair cells.
Question 7
The melanocytes are the most common cell in the epidermis
and produce melanin.
Question 8
The spiral organ contains hair cells that form action
potentials when stimulated to allow for the sense of smell to occur.
Question 9
The central nervous system provides neural integration of
efferent information transmitted from the autonomic nervous system.
Question 10
Which statement is true regarding action potentials?
Question 11
A dermatome is associated with a specific cranial nerve that
innervates the body?s skin.
Question 12
Which of the following statements is true regarding the eye?
Question 13
Hyperthyroidism is commonly caused by insufficient amounts
of the element iodine within the body.
Question 14
What statement is true regarding reflexes?
Question 15
Which of the following muscles is considered a rotator cuff
muscle?
Question 16
Energy is created in which cellular organelle?
Question 17
Grey matter of nerve tissue in a region or collection of
nerve cell bodies whose main function is to transmit nerve impulses from one
region of the nervous system to another.
Question 18
All of the following cranial nerves are involved in motor
control of eye movement, EXCEPT:
Question 19
The cerebellum is primarily involved with conscious thought
and emotions.
Question 20
Which statement is true regarding the skeletal system?
Question 21
A ligament connects a muscle to a bone, while a tendon
stabilizes a joint by connecting or joining one bone to another.
Question 22
Which statement is true of aerobic and anaerobic cellular
respiration?
Question 23
Which statement is true of epiphyseal plates?
Question 24
The parasympathetic nervous system is a branch of the
somatic efferent peripheral nervous system while the sympathetic is a branch of
the viscera efferent peripheral nervous system.
Question 25
Which statement is true regarding the meninges and
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)?
Question 26
Which of the following is not an effect of the
parasympathetic nervous system?
Question 27
Which statement is true regarding the endocrine system?
Question 28
Which of the following choices best describes the joint
between the fontal bone and parietal bones?
Question 29
The epidermis is composed of which type of tissue?
Question 30
Which of the following is found in the epidermis layer of
skin?
Question 31
Which statement is true regarding myelin sheaths?
Question 32
Which statement is true regarding the CNS?
Question 33
Peripheral neuropathy can cause damage to axons of
peripheral nerves leading to dysfunction of the conduction of an action
potential.
Question 34
Which endocrine hormone is involved with increasing the
blood calcium levels of the body?
Question 35
All of the following are symptoms of hypothyroidism, EXCEPT:
Question 36
The nerve plexuses of the body allow for individual nerves
to have axons from multiple nerve root levels.
Question 37
Which of the following statements is true regarding the
special senses?
Question 38
The spinal cord travels from the foramen magnum of the
occipital bone down to the sacrum region.
Question 39
Which endocrine hormone is stored in the posterior pituitary
and increases the amount of water reabsorbed in the kidneys increasing blood
pressure and blood volume?
Question 40
Both aldosterone and antidiuretic hormones have indirect
effects of increasing blood volume and blood pressure.
Question 41
Blockage of the auditory (Eustachian) tube can result in
conductive hearing loss.
Question 42
One of the main functions of the gyri and sulci is to allow
for increased surface area of the cerebral cortex.
Question 43
A ligament can reduce the friction of a tendon rubbing over
a bone.
Question 44
Calcitonin will cause an increase activity in which of the
following cells?
Question 45
Which sense organ allows for detection of the position of
the head in the gravitational field?
Question 46
A motor unit is composed of one entire muscle and all the
nerves that innervate it..
Question 47
This type of gland secretes an oily secretion that helps
lubricate and keeps the skin and hair from becoming dry and brittle?
Question 48
Which endocrine hormone, in higher quantities, can suppress
the function of the immune system and decrease inflammation of the body?
Question 49
Addison?s disease is due to increased amounts of cortisol
being secreted.
Question 50
Which type of neuroglia cell forms myelin sheaths on axons
within the peripheral nervous system?