Answer Choices:
A. catheter
B. nurse*
C. scalpel
D. syringe
Answer:
B
Question: Which of the following is not an example of evidence used by John Snow to determine that cholera was being transmitted by water in London in the 1800s?
Answer Choices:
A. a high frequency of cholera cases located near a water pump on Broad Street
B. beer workers not contracting cholera because they drank beer rather than water
C. microscopic examination of water*
D. waste and sewage being dumped into the Thames River
Answer:
C
Question: Hypersecretion of growth hormone leads to a condition called ____, while hyposecretion can lead to a disorder called ____.
Answer Choices:
A. acromegaly; gigantism
B. gigantism; pituitary dwarfism
C. gigantism; diabetes insipidus
D. acromegaly; gigantism
Answer:
D. acromegaly; gigantism
Question: When a country allows trade and becomes an importer of a good,
Answer Choices:
a) Both domestic producers and domestic consumers become better off.
b) Domestic producers become better off, and domestic consumers become worse off.
c) Domestic producers become worse off, and domestic consumers become better off.
d) Both domestic producers and domestic consumers become worse off.
Answer:
c) Domestic producers become worse off, and domestic consumers become better off.
Question: Which of the following is not true of the filtration membrane?
Answer Choices:
a. Permeable blood cells and proteins from entering the Bowman’s capsule.
b. Prevents proteins and nearly other solutes.
c. Large molecules can pass through the glomerular capillaries.
d. Made up of the basement membrane between the capillary wall and the visceral layer of the Bowman capsule.
Answer:
c. Large molecules can pass through the glomerular capillaries.
Question: Select the correctly matched pair.
Answer Choices:
a) Enteroendocrine cells – produce mucus
b) Chief cells – produce hormones
c) Parietal cells – produce hydrochloric acid
d) Neck cells – produce mucus
e) Mucous cells – produce intrinsic factor
Answer:
c) Parietal cells – produce hydrochloric acid
Question: Malarial disease in Brazil is an example of which type of disease?
Answer Choices:
A. endemic*
B. epidemic
C. pandemic
D. sporadic
Answer:
A
Question: Which term refers to the study of the cause of disease?
Answer Choices:
A. epidemiology
B. etiology*
C. morbidiology
D. pathology
Answer:
B
Question: As the pH of the blood decreases, the amount of oxygen bound to hemoglobin at any given Po2 will _______.
Answer Choices:
a) Stay the same
b) Increase then decrease
c) Increase
d) Decrease
Answer:
d) Decrease
Question: Which type of studies gathers data from past cases to study present-day cases?
Answer Choices:
A. descriptive
B. experimental
C. retrospective
D. prospective*
Answer:
D
Question: John Snow developed a detailed map (the “ghost map”) to investigate the etiology of which disease?
Answer Choices:
A. anthrax
B. botulism
C. cholera*
D. listeriosis
Answer:
C
Question: When do congenital heart diseases occur?
Answer Choices:
a. in early childhood
b. at birth
c. during adolescence
d. in old age
Answer:
b
Question: Which of the following organic molecules include hormones?
Answer Choices:
A. 1,2,3,4
B. 1,1,4
C. 1,3,4
D. 1,1,4
E. 1,2,4
Answer:
E. 1,2,4