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1. Painful damage to a ligament is called a 7. Which is not a... benefit of exercise?

______. A. Improving the heart


A. Break B. Improving the blood vessels
B. Osteoporosis C. Increasing strength
C. Fragment D. Improved mood
D. Sprain E. An increase in fat
E. Rupture Answer: E
Answer: D
8. Unlike neurons, glial cells are able to
2. DNA contains all of the following bases _____.
except: A. Reproduce
A. Adenine B. Attack viruses
B. Guanine C. Manage body temperature
C. Cytosine D. Undergo photosynthesis
D. Thymine E. All of the above
E. Uracil Answer: A
Answer: E
9. Which one is the structural unit of
3. The following is defined as an entire set compact bone?
of genes carried by one member of a A. Periosteum
species.
B. Osteocytes
A. Genome
B. Gene Therapy C. Central canal
C. Polymerase Chain Reaction D. Bone marrow
D. Biotechnology E. Osteon
E. Ribosomal RNA Answer: E
Answer: A
10. What are fontanels?
4. DNA...
A. The small bones of the hand
A. Is a double-stranded molecule.
B. Has a sugar deoxyribose. B. Pads of fibrocartilage that help cushion
C. Functions primarily in the nucleus. the bones of the vertebral column
D. All of the above. C. Fibrous connective tissue that connects
E. None of the above. the bones of the cranium before and
Answer: D shortly after birth
D. The light-absorbing pigments in the
5. To build muscle tone and mass, you
photoreceptors called Rods
have to make your muslces exert ___% of
their maximum force. E. Inverse agonists at the benzodiazepine
A. 50 receptor
B. 65 Answer: C
C. 75
D. 85 11. Bones function in
E. 90 A. Support
Answer: C
B. Movement
6. What neurons conduct information C. Protection
towards the brain and spinal cord? D. Storage of Minerals and Fat
A. Sensory neurons E. All of the above
B. Motor neurons Answer: E
C. Interneurons
D. None of the above 12. What are tendons?
E. All of the above
A. Bands of connective tissue that attach
Answer: A
bone to bone
B. Cartilage disks E. None of the above
C. Bands of muscle Answer: A
D. Bands of connective tissue that attach
19. Where was the oldest fossil evidence
muscle to bone
for modern humans found?
E. Bones in the foot A. Africa
Answer: D B. The North Pole
C. United States of America
13. What is an abnormal growth of cells D. France
that can form a mass of tissue? E. China
A. Mole Answer: A
B. Pimple
C. Tumor 20. What is/are branching diagrams used
D. Hive by scientists to depict hypotheses about
Answer: C evolutionary relationships among species
or groups of species?
14. What is the removal and analysis of a A. Convergent evolution
small piece of tissue suspected to be B. Molecular clocks
cancerous? C. Phylogenetic trees
A. Tumor marker test D. Bipedalism
B. Biopsy E. Gene pool
C. Genetic test Answer: C
D. Radiation
Answer: B 21. The process by which Earth's lifeforms
have changed from their earliest
15. Which of these is not a conventional beginnings to today is...
method for treating cancer? A. Evolution
A. Showering B. Chemistry
B. Surgery C. Natural Selection
C. Radiation D. Geographic Distribution
D. Chemotherapy E. Comparative Anatomy
Answer: A Answer: A

16. What Is the function of cornea? 22. Which of the following is a mechanism
A. To see that protects cells from cancer?
B. Protect the eye A. Limitations on the number of times a
C. Refracts light focusing on the retina. cell can divide
D. Rounded lens B. forming a sore
E. None of the above C. there are no mechanisms to protect the
Answer: C cells
D. swollen glands
17. What is the inner ear? E. lumps on the skin
A. Hair cell Answer: A
B. Radiowave
C. Window 23. Which of the following is a known
D. Transmitter cause of cancer?
E. All the above A. Viruses, some of which have oncogenes
Answer: D among their genes.
B. Chemicals that case mutations.
18. What is the function of the eardrum? C. Radiation such as sun rays, cosmic
A. Vibrates in response to sound waves rays, radon, and uranium.
B. Loudness and pitch D. All of the above are known to cause
C. Transmitting cancer.
D. All the above Answer: D
24. GMO stands for: Answer: D
A. General model operator
B. Genetically modified organism 40. Which statement below is right?
C. Genetically made organ A. Around 20%of what we usually think of
D. Gene made organically as ...the flavor of a food is really detected
Answer: B by our sense of smell
B. Farsightness is caused by image focus
25. The conventional cancer treatments before retina
include all except: C. Blind spot is caused by the absence of
A. Surgery optic nerve
B. Chemotherapy D. A person who lacks red cones sees
C. Exercise deep red as black
D. Radiation Answer: D
Answer: C
41. Which of the following is NOT a
26. Which nervous system regulates primary function of the framework of
involuntary bodily activities, such as bones and cartilage known as the
breathing rate and heart rate? skeleton?
A. Central Nervous System A. Support
B. Somatic Nervous System B. Movement
C. Autonomic Nervous System C. Protection
D. Parasympathetic Nervous System D. Hormone production
E. Sympathetic Nervous System E. Storage of minerals
Answer: C Answer: D

27. The hypothalamus controls... 42. Yellow Marrow is?


A. Heart rate A. A fatty tissue used for energy storage?
B. Blood pressure B. A plate that separates each end of the
C. Breathing rate bone from its shaft
D. Body temperature C. Joint Inflammation
E. All of the above D. A series of bones through which the
Answer: E spinal cord passes
E. A framework of bones and cartilage that
28. Which part of the brain is the largest? performs functions for the bod
A. Temporal lobe Answer: A
b. Parietal Lobe
c. Cerebrum 43. There are ________________ thoracic
d. Occipital lobe vertebrae
e. Major Lobe A. 12
Answer: C B. 7
C. 2
29. Cold and heat receptors detect.. D. 1
A. Pressure change E. 26
B. Size change Answer: A
C. Temperature change
D. Adaptation 44. What is the biggest factor in regulating
Answer: C bone growth?
A. Nutrition and food intake
30. Which of the following is NOT one of B. Genes
the five primary tastes? C. Hormones
A. Sour D. Cells
B. Sweet E. Osteocytes
C. Bitter Answer: C
D. Hot
E. Salty
45. This type of nerve cell is located D. Muscles are elastic
between motor neurons and sensory E. All of the above
neurons, interprets signals, and is located Answer: E
in the brain and spinal cord.
A. Interneuons 52. Muscles will contract so long as there
B. Efferent neurons is present
C. Impulse neurons A. ADP
D. Afferent neurons B. ATP
E Schwann cells C. Pi
Answer: A D. Myosin
E. None of the above
46. What disease is a result of the death of Answer: B
dopamine-producing neurons deep in the
brain's movement control center? 53. The "scapula" is also commonly class:
A. Alzheimer's Disease A. Collarbone
B. Parkinson's Disease B. Shoulder blade
C. Depression C. Forearm bone
D. Hodgkin's Disease D. Wrist bone
E. Infectious Disease E. Thighbone
Answer: B Answer: B

48. A wave of changes that travels down 54. What is the term for mature bone
the neuron's plasma membrane is called cells?
what? A. Lacuna
A. Synaptic Transmission B. Osteon
B. Action Potential C. Osteocytes
C. Nerve Impulses D. Marrow
D. Resting Potential E. Periosteum
E. Neurotransmitter Answer: C
Answer: B
55. About 20 million Americans, most of
49. Someone who is totally unresponsive them elderly white women, suffer from
to all sensory input and cannot be what disease?
awakened is in a A. Herpes
A. Deep sleep B. Erythrocytism
B. Coma C. Anorexia
C. Cancer state D. Osteoporosis
D. Stroke E. AIDS
E. Heart attack Answer: D
Answer: B
56. Arthritis refers to:
50. Muscle Dystrophy causes A. Arm and leg pain only
A. Progressive muscle deterioration B. Joint Inflammation
B. Extreme body building C. A torn ligament
C. Muscle contraction D. the irreversible lose of bone
D. Soreness after working out E. All of the above
E. All of the above Answer: B
Answer: A
57. What describes how populations can
51. The 3 kinds of muscles have what in change in size?
common? A. Population dynamics
A. Muscles are excitable B. Carrying capacity
B. Muscles are contractible C. Age structure
C. Muscles are extensible D. Global warming
Answer: A
64. How many bones are in the human
58. What is the removal of trees from an body?
area without replacing them? A. 167
A. Deforestation B. 188
B. Desertification C. 200
C. Age structure D. 206
D. Global warming E. 312
Answer: A Answer: D

59. Which of these is NOT a possible 65. How many total vertebrae are there in
consequence of global warming? the body?
A. Melting ice caps A. 28
B. Rising sea level B. 36
C. Colder oceans C. 26
D. Changing weather patterns D. 8
Answer: C E. 12
Answer: C
60. Glial Cells:
A. Support neurons 66. Which of the following is not a
B. Protect neurons component of the axial skeleton?
C. Insulate neurons A. Skull
D. Nuture neurons B. Vertebral Column
E. All of the above C. Sternum
Answer: E D. Rib Cage
E. Pelvic Bone
61. Neurons that are sent to the brain are: Answer: E
A. Afferent
B. Efferent 67. Cancer cells often fail to trigger...
C. Interneurons A. Apoptosis
D. Deterrent B. Protein
E. None of the above C. Tumors
Answer: A D. None of the above
Answer:A
62. All of these are components of
neurons EXCEPT: 68. Which one is a way to treat cancer?
A. Dendrites A. Surgery
B. Cell Body B. Radiation
C. Cilia C. Immunotherapy
D. Axones D. Gene therapy
E. All of these are components of neurons E. All of the above
Answer: C Answer: E

63. Action Potential occurs when: 69. Cancer can be caused by all of the
A. Ions are forced through ion channels following EXCEPT
B. Ions move passively through ion A. Viruses
channels B. Certain chemicals
C. Protons are forced through proton C. Poor nutrition
channels D. Radiation
D. Electrons move passively through Answer: C
electron channels
E. Electrons move freely through the cell 70. Which RNA molecule carries DNA's
wall information in the sequence of its bases
Answer: B (codons) from the nucleus to the
cytoplasm?
A. rRNA
B. nRNA Answer: B
C. mRNA
D. tRNA 77. What are DNA changes called?
Answer: C A. Haloids
B. RNA
71. A change in DNA is called a ________? C. Life
A. Disproportionation D. Mutations
B. Recombination Answer: D
C. Polymerase chain reaction
D. Mutation 78. What are the parts of a Neuron?
Answer: D A. Dendrites
B. Cell Body
72. Which is a similarity between RNA and C. Axon
DNA? D. All of the above
A. Are nucleic acids Answer: D
B. Are composed of linked nucleotides
C. Have a sugar-phosphate backbone 79. The strength of muscle contractions
D. Have four types of bases depend on the number of _______ units
E. All of the above involved.
Answer: E A. Neuron
B. Skeletal
73. Curing genetic diseases by putting C. Motor
normal, functional genes into body cells D. Tendon
affected by a mutant gene is called... Answer: C
A. Biotechnology
B. Genetic engineering 80. What causes flexion?
C. Gene therapy A. The biceps contracts and pulls the
D. Recombination forearm up, fl...exing the arm.
Answer: C B. The relaxed triceps is stretched.
C. The triceps contracts and pulls the
74. The triplet code of CAT in DNA is forearm down, extending the arm.
represented as ___ in mRNA and ___ in D. The relaxed biceps is stretched.
tRNA. E. A and B
A. CAT, CAT Answer: E
B. GAA, CAT
C. GTA, CAU 81. Which of the following are traits of
D. GUA, CAU muscles?
Answer: D A. Muscles are excitable
B. Muscles are contractible
75. A three-base sequence on transfer C. Mucles are extensible
RNA (tRNA) that binds to the D. Muscles are elastic
complementary base pairs of a codon on E. All of the above
the mRNA is a(n) Answer: E
A. .Anticodon
B. Codon 82. After prolonged exercise, all of the
C. Polymerase following occur EXCEPT?
D. Promoter A. Glucose is formed
Answer: A B. Creatine phosphate is restored
C. Oxygen is restored to myglobin
76. What is the manipulation of genetic D. Lactic acid is no longer used to produce
material for human purposes? ATP
A. Biotechnology E. Glycogen reserves are restored
B. Genetic Engineering Answer: A
C. Mutation
D. Transcription 83. Characteristics of fast twitch muscles
include all of these EXCEPT? E. Dark Side of the Moon
A. Designed for rapid, powerful response Answer: B
B. Large amounts of actin and myosin
C. Fatigue rapidly 89. Which of the following is not a type of
D. Packed with myoglobin neuron?
E. Depend heavily on anaerobic metabolic A. Afferent
pathways B. Efferent
Answer: D C. Interneuron
D. Outerneuron
84. A ligament connects ___________? Answer: D
A. Bone to muscle
B. Bone to bone 90. Which of the following carry
C. Skin to Muscle information toward the brain and spinal
D. Muscle to muscle cord?
E. None of the above A. Motor Neurons
Answer: D B. Interneurons
C. Sensory Neurons
85. What protects the Central Nervous D. Effectors
System? E. None of the above
A. Bone and Membranes Answer: C
B. Cerebrospinal fluid
C. Bone, Membranes and Cerebrospinal 91. What is the long extension of a neuron
fluid called?
D. A Brick Wall A. Dendrite
E. None of the above B. Axon
Answer: C C. Effector
D. Neurotransmitter
86. What is/are characteristics of white Answer: B
matter?
A. Consists of myelinated axons 92. What makes up the peripheral nervous
B. Consists of interneurons, cell bodies, system?
and unmyelinated axons A. Brain and spinal cord
C. Allows communication between the B. All nervous tissue in the body,
cerebral hemispheres excluding the brain and spinal cord
D. Allows communication over long C. Nervous tissue, brain and spinal cord
distances D. Spinal cord
E. A & D Answer: B
Answer: E
93. Nerve impulses leave the neuron
87. What are the two types of matter through_____
located in the brain? A. Dendrites
A. White, black B. Cell body
B. White, gray C. Nucleus
C. Gray, black D. Axon
D. Gray, brown E. Axon endings
E. Pink, yellow Answer: E
Answer: B
94. The _____ increases the rate of
88. The cerebral hemispheres sit conduction of nerve impulses and helps
comfortably over the their repair.
A. Hypothalamus A. Myelin Sheath
B. Thalamus B. Sodium-Potassium Pumps
C. Primary motor area C. Nerve
D. Frontal Lobe D. Dendrites
Answer: A
101. Energy source for muscle
95. What is the most common type of concentration: Oxygen debt is paid back
cancer for women? happens:
A. Lung A. 6 seconds into exercise
B. Ovary B. 10 seconds into exercise
C. Breast C. 30-40 seconds into exercise
D. Bladder D. End of exercise
Answer: C E. After prolonged exercise
Answer: E
96. Which is not true of DNA?
A. It is single-stranded 102. What are some warning signs of
B. It has a sugar deoxyribose cancer?
C. It functions primarily in the nucleus A. Change in bowel or bladder habit or
D. It contains the bases adenine, guanine, function
cytosine, and thymine B. A sore that does not heal
Answer: A C. Unusual bleeding or bloody discharge
D. Thickening or lump in breast or
97. One difference between RNA and DNA elsewhere
is E. All of the above
A. DNA is stable and RNA is not Answer: E
B. RNA is stable and DNA is not
C. DNA is single-stranded 103. Which one of the following is known
D. RNA has a sugar and DNA does not to cause cancer?
E. They are not different A. Tobacco Smoke
Answer: A B. Radiation
C. Viruses
98. What is polymerase chain reaction D. Excessive Alcohol Consumption
(PCR)? E. All of the Above
A. A reaction that destroys the cell Answer: E
B. A technique used to increase the
amount of specific DNA 104. What happens to a cell when damage
C. A result of cancer is too extensive to repair?
D. A disease caused by liver failure A. Cell returns to cell cycle
Answer: B B. Cell begins mutation
C. Cell damage accumulates leading to
99. Energy sources for muscle contraction: cancer
ATP formed from creatine phosphate and D. Cell divides and produces more cells
ADP happeneds: E. It is programmed cell death
A. 6 seconds into exercise Answer: E
B. 10 seconds into exercise
C. 30-40 seconds into exercise 105. What is NOT a way to cure cancer?
D. End of exercise A. Surgery to remove tumors
E. After prolonged exercise B. Radiation therapy to kill localized
Answer: B cancer cells
C. Inhibition of blood vessel formation
100. Energy sources for muscle D. Chemotherapy to kill cancer cells
concentration: ATP Stored in muscles E. Take an advil
happens: Answer: E
A. 6 seconds into exercise
B. 10 seconds into exercise 106. What percentage of Earth's Water
C. 30-40 seconds into exercise Supply is NOT in oceans?
D. End of exercise A:3
E. After prolonged exercise B:40
Answer: A C: 50
D: 13
E:50 113. A three-base sequence on transfer
Answer: A RNA (tRNA) that binds to the
complementary base pairs of a codon on
107. The Earth's population in 2008 was: the mRNA is a(n)
A. 3 Billion A. Anticodon
B. 4 Billion B. Codon
C. 5 Billion C. Polymerase
D. 6.7 Billion D. Promoter
E. 10 Billion Answer: A
Answer: D
114. What is the manipulation of genetic
108. 97% of the Earth's water is in: material for human purposes?
A. Oceans A. Biotechnology
B. Lakes B. Genetic Engineering
C. Rivers C. Mutation
D. Swamps D. Transcription
E. Bogs Answer: B
Answer: A
115. What are DNA changes called?
109. Which of the following is the first step A. Haloids
in creating a transgenic animal? B. RNA
A. Infect the gene of interest into donor C. Life
cell D. Mutations
B. Implant cell into host mother Answer: D
C. Locate offspring with transgenic gene
D. None of the above 116. The shape of a typical neuron is
Answer: A specialized for:
A. Movement
110. More than _____ of human DNA does B. Communication with other cells
not code for protein. C. Barrier Building
A. 10% D. Transporting Blood
B. 25% Answer: B
C. 50%
D. 95% 117. Neuroglial cells do what to neurons?
E. 99% A. Support
Answer: C B. Protect
C. Insulate
111. Which of the following is not one of D. Nuture
the four Nucleotides: E. All of the Above
A. Adenine Answer: E
B. Cytosine
C. Thymine 118. What is an Axon?
D. Codene A. Body of neuron
E. None of the Above B. Long extension of neuron
Answer: D C. The signal of the neuron
D. None of the Above
112. The triplet code of CAT in DNA is Answer: B
represented as ___ in mRNA and ___ in
tRNA. 119. Neurons have:
A. CAT, CAT A. Dendrites
B. GAA, CAT B. Cell Body
C. GTA, CAU C. Axon
D. GUA, CAU D. All of the Above
Answer: D Answer: D
120. About how many skeletal muscles we C. The layer of tissue that contains
have that are usually attached to bones? photoreceptors.
A. 400 D. The group of axons from the eye to the
B. 500 brain.
C. 600 Answer: B
D. 700
E. 850 127. What are the factors that reduce the
Answer: D size of populations?
A. Density-independent regulating factors
121. What connects to the Motor neuron? B. Density-dependent regulating factors
A. Myofibril C. Density-growth regulating factors
B. Sacroplasmic D. Both a&b
C. Acetylcholine Answer: D
D. Tubele
Answer: C 128. An example of a density-dependent
regulating factor is...
122.Which two muscles you are u...sing A. Food scarcity
when flexing or extending your arm? B. Disease causing organisms
A. Biceps and triceps C. A&B
B. Biceps and rectus D. None of the above
C. Rectus and triceps Answer: C
D. Pectoralis and rectus
Answer: A 129. What percentage of Earth's water is
in the oceans?
123. What is the lens? A. 75%
A. A layer of tissue that contains the B. 50%
photoreceptors C. 97%
B. The colored part of the eye D. 25%
C. A transparent, semispherical body of Answer: C
tissue behind the iris and pupil
D. The opening at the center of the iris 130. Why are forests disappearing?
Answer: C A. Human population is increasing and
getting rid of trees to have land or space
124. What is the function of the cornea? and to build homes
A. Receives light B. Because we're having too many forest
B. Controls shape of lens fires esp. in California
C. Refracts light C. Too much oil and gasoline are
D. Protects the eyeball consumed by the population which kills
Answer: C the forest plantation
D. People are carving their initials on trees
125. Which of the following is NOT a and breaking branches while hiking
structure of the inner layer of the eye? Answer: A
A. Retina
B. Rods 131. How many bones are in the middle
C. Cones ear?
D. Fovea A. 1
E. All of the above are part of the inner B. 2
layer C. 3
Answer: E D. 4
E. 5
126. What are cones? Answer: c
A. The photoreceptors responsible for
black and white vision. 132. How many types of olfactory
B. The photoreceptors responsible for receptors do we have?
color vision. A. About 50
B. About 200 D. LOL
C. About 1000 Answer: B
D. About 20,000
E. About 1,000,000 139. The brain is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ command
Answer: C center
A. Army
133. The pupil is located in which part of B. Central
the body? C. TV
A. Ear D. Center
B. Mouth Answer: B
C. Nose
D. Eye 140. The cerebrum is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ part
E. Chest of the brain
Answer: D A. Dumbest
B. Biggest
134. What is the most common eye C. Hollowes
problem affecting men and women older D. None of the above
than 50? Answer: B
A. Cataracts
B. Astigmatism 141. Painful damage to a ligament is
C. Glaucoma called____.
D. Choroid A. Break
Answer: A B. Osteoporosis
C. Fragment
135. Which structure of the middle layer of D. Sprain
the eye regulates the amount of light E. Rapture
entering the eye through the pupil? Answer: D
A. Choroid
B. Ciliary body 142. How many bones are in the Human
C. Iris Body?
D. Pupil A. 33
Answer: C B. 206
C. 639
136. What type of receptors are D. It varies in the individual
specialized to respond to temperature? Answer: B
A. Photoreceptors
B. Thermoreceptors 143. Which of these is not part of the axial
C. Chemoreceptors skeleton?
D. Mechanoreceptors A. Skull
Answer: B B. Vertebral column
C. Sternum and rib cage
137. The thalamus functions in the D. Pectoral girdle
following, EXCEPT: Answer: D
A. Motor activity
B. Smell 144. What is the appendicular skeletons
C. Memory main purpose?
D. Taste A. To support
E. None of the above B. To protect
Answer: B C. To allow movement
D. Nothing in particular
138. Central nervous system is E. To stay stiff
abbreviated... Answer: C
A. nnn
B. CNS 145. A ________ is a set of three
C. asa nucleotides for a specific amino acid.
A. Codon the image focuses on the retina .
B. DNA B. Causes light rays to diverge so that the
C. mRNA image focuses on the retina.
D. RNA C. Focuses entire image on retina.
E. Translation D. I don’t know
Answer: A E. None of the above
Answer: A
146. Which is not a stimulant?
A. Cocaine 152. What is the function of Sclera?
B. Amphetamines A. Fine focusing of light onto retina.
C. Alcohol B. Protects the eyeball.
D. Nicotine C. Provides detail cover vision.
Answer: C D. Beautify our eyes.
E. Transmits impulses from the retina to
147. What is the conscious part of the the brain.
brain? Answer: B
A. The eyes
B. Cerebrum 153. If the world's population was 21births
C. Hypothalamus per 1000 individuals per year, death rate
D. Both A & C was 7.2 deaths per 1000 individuals per
E. The brain is actually a made up organ year. Calculate the growth rate.
that was formed by the U.S. Government. A. 1.24%
Answer: B B. 1.38%
C. 4%
148. A person who is in a coma is……… D. 1.34%
A. Totally unresponsive to all sensory E. None of them above
input and cannot be awakened. Answer: B
B. Totally responsive to all sensory input
and can be awakened. 154. What are not related to depletion of
C. Basically just sleeping. resources?
D. A,B, & C. A. Soil erosion
E. Just A & C. B. Overfishing
Answer: A C. Water shortage
D. Deforestation
149. The opening in the center of the iris E. None of them above
through which light enters the eye is Answer: E
called the:
A. Iris 155. When we want to predict future
B. Pupil growth, which of the following is helpful?
C. Ciliary body A. Immigration
D. Lens B. Population dynamics
E. None of the above C. Age structure
Answer: B D. None of them above
E. All of them above
150. Where do we experience the pain of Answer: C
heart attack?
A. Stomach 156. What chemical do drugs such as
B. Testes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil affect?
C. Left Arm. A. Acteylcholine
D. Heart. B. Dompamine
E. Belly Button. C.Serotonin
Answer: C D.Carbidopa
E.Norepinephrine
151. Convex lens ________. Answer: C
A. Causes light rays to coverage so that
157. The neuron sending the message to D. Increased brain size
the body is called: E. Reduced size between males and
A. Postsynaptic Neuron females
B. Neurotransmitter Answer: D
C. Synapse
D. Presynaptic Neuron 164. If an individual walks on two feet
E. Synaptic Cleft what would this be called?
Answer: D A. Trilimbic
B. Tripeldicular
158. A junction between a neuron and C. Bipedalism
another cell is called a: D. Human like
A. Neurotransmitter E. Ateles geoffoyi vellerosus
B. Synapse Answer: C
C. Threshold
D. Action potential 165.Which is not a trait of primates?
Answer: B A. Flattened nails
B. Stereoscopic vision
159. When a neuron responds to an C. Forward-facing eyes
incoming signal, it transmits its message D. Infle xible shoulder joints
along the ________? E. Grasping forelimbs
A. Dendrites Answer: D
B. Nerve
C. Axon 166. Sexual (fill in the blank, fill in the
D. Sheath blank) produce variation in population?
Answer: C A. Reproduction, genetic response
B. Reproduction, genes
160. Which of the following is a function C. Alleles, gametes
performing by the skeleton? D. Reproduction, mutation
A. Storage of minerals E. Assortment, mutations
B. Storage of fat Answer: D
C. Protection
D. All of the above 167. What is the function of a messenger
E. None of the above RNA ?
Answer: D A. Carries DNA information in the
sequence of its bases from the nucleus to
161. The appendicular skeleton includes the cytoplasm.
A. Shoulders B. Strengthens the cells
B. Pelvis C. Produce glucose
C. Arms D. All the above
D. Legs Answer: A
E. All of the above
Answer: E 168. What is the function of transfer RNA?
A. Binds to a specific amino acid and
162. The skull... bones of a human transports it to the appropriate region
newborn are not fused, but are instead mRNA
connected by fibrous connective tissue. B. to produce sperm
True C. to enlarge muscles
False D. to transport liquids through your
Answer: True digestive system.
Answer: A
163. What is not a major trend in Hominid
Evolution? 169. What is the function of Ribosomal
A. Bipedalism RNA?
B. Elongation of limbs A. Combines with protein to form
C. Shortening of jaw ribosomes.
B. To increase your height 176. What is a motor neuron and all the
C. To mix with DNA and see the reaction muscle cells it stimulates called?
D. To make a new protein for the human A. Tetanus
body B. Muscle Twitch
Answer: A C. Motor Unit
D. Insertion
170. Point mutations result from Answer: C
A. Nucleotide
B. Substitution 177. Which of the following is NOT a
C. Insertion common trait of all kinds of muscles?
D. Deletion A. Muscles are excitable
E. All of the above B. Muscles are contractile
Answer: E C. Muscles are extensible
D. Muscles are elastic
171. Which is the proper order? E. They are all common traits of muscles
A. DNA -> RNA -> Protein Answer: E
B. RNA -> DNA -> Protein
C. DNA -> Protein -> RNA 178. Which one of the following is not a
D. DNA <- RNA <- Protein treatment for cancer?
E. RNA <- Protein <- DNA A. Surgery
Answer: A B. Radiation
C. Chemotherapy
172. What are changes in DNA called? D. Biopsy
A. Anticodon E. Gene Therapy
B. Malformations Answer: D
C. Polysomes
D. Mutations 179. Which of the following is not a type of
E. Cannabinoids cancer?
Answer: D A. Cervical
B. Liver
173. Which is a technique that increases C. Leukocytosis
the amount of specific DNA? D. Burkitt's Lymphoma
A. Regeneration E. Lung
B. Polymerase chain reaction Answer: D
C. Marijane chain reaction
D. The Budweiser method 180. Which of the following is not one of
E. Synthesis the 7 warning signs of cancer?
Answer: B A. A sore that does not heal
B. Indigestion or difficult swallowing
C. Unusual bleeding or bloody discharge
174. Skeletal Muscle is also called? D. Obvious change in wart or mole
A. Sarcomeres E. Migraine headaches
B. Fast twitch muscle fibers Answer: E
C. Slow Twich muscle fibers
D. Striated Muscle 181. What is the most common form of
Answer: D cancer cases among males?
A. Prostate cancer
175. Muscles are: B. Testicular Cancer
A. Excitable C. Leukemia
B. Contractile D. Colon Cancer
C. Extensible Answer: A
D. Elastic
E. All of the above 182. What are some major muscles in the
Answer: E body?
A. Oblique
B. Abdominis
C. Biceps Brachii
D. Hamstring
E. All of the above
Answer: E

183. What can greatly influence the


further development of muscles?
A. Exercise
B. Drink milk
C. Diet
D. Flex muscles
E. Eat more
Answer: A

184. Muscles are:


A. Excitable
B. Contractable
C. Extensible
D. Elastic
E. All of the above
Answer: E

185. The bundles of myofilaments make


up about what percent of the cell volume?
A. 10%
B. 20%
C. 30%
D. 40%
E. 80%
Answer: E

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