Answer Choices:
a) Increase in arterial pressure in alveoli
b) Decrease in the rate of gas exchange
c) Increase in gas pressure
d) Decrease in water vapor pressure
Answer:
b) Decrease in the rate of gas exchange
Question: How do tubular reabsorption and tubular secretion differ?
Answer Choices:
a) Tubular reabsorption occurs in Bowman’s capsule, while tubular secretion occurs in the peritubular capillary.
b) Tubular secretion adds materials to the filtrate; tubular reabsorption removes materials from the filtrate.
c) Tubular secretion moves materials from the filtrate into the blood; tubular reabsorption moves materials from the blood into the filtrate.
d) Tubular reabsorption increases urine volume; tubular secretion decreases urine volume.
e) Tubular secretion is a passive process; tubular reabsorption uses active transport.
Answer:
b) Tubular secretion adds materials to the filtrate; tubular reabsorption removes materials from the filtrate.
Question: In experimental epidemiological studies, study subjects are manipulated in some manner.
Answer:
True
Question: In which route does bile flow?
Answer Choices:
a) Cystic duct to the hepatic duct.
b) Common bile duct to the gallbladder.
c) Hepatic ducts into the hepatic duct.
d) Gallbladder into the common hepatic duct.
e) Bile canaliculi into the bile ducts.
Answer:
a) Cystic duct to the hepatic duct.
Question: Which statement about diffuse lymphatic tissue is accurate?
Answer Choices:
a. It has a clear boundary.
b. It contains macrophages.
c. It is located superficial to mucous membranes.
d. It is organized into compact, somewhat spherical structures.
Answer:
b
Question: What is the result of oversecretion of aldosterone?
Answer Choices:
a. Hypotonia
b. Hypertonic urine
c. Hypotonic urine
d. Hyperkalemia
e. Hypernatremia
Answer:
e. Hypernatremia
Question: Which of the following accurately describes the thoracic duct?
Answer Choices:
A. occupies a major portion of the body
B. drains lymph
C. carries the lymph of the head, upper-right limb, and right thorax
D. the largest lymphatic vessel
Answer:
B. drains lymph
Question: The left lymphatic duct drains lymph from the ___
Answer Choices:
A. left arm, left chest, and left side of head
B. upper part of the body
C. the right lymphatic duct, right side of head
D. abdomen
E. right side of the body
Answer:
A. left arm, left chest, and left side of head
Question: Chemical messengers that influence the activity of another cell are ____ chemical messengers. On the other hand, chemical messengers that influence the activity of the same cell that releases them are ____ chemical messengers.
Answer Choices:
A. endocrine; paracrine
B. autocrine; exocrine
C. exocrine; autocrine
D. paracrine; autocrine
Answer:
D. paracrine; autocrine
Question: When the pH of body fluids decreases, the kidney compensates by
Answer Choices:
a. increasing the rate of H+ secretion and decreasing the rate HCO3- reabsorption.
b. decreasing the rate of H+ secretion and increasing the rate of HCO3- reabsorption.
c. decreasing the rate of both H+ secretion and HCO3- reabsorption.
d. increasing the rate of both H+ secretion and HCO3- reabsorption.
Answer:
d
Question: What receptors are affected by changes in the osmolality of extracellular fluid?
Answer Choices:
a. Osmoreceptors
b. Baroreceptors
c. Proprioceptors
d. Nociceptors
e. Chemoreceptors
Answer:
a. Osmoreceptors
Question: Which of the following is true about modern emerging diseases?
Answer Choices:
A. Malaria is an example of an emerging disease.
B. They are diseases that increase in frequency after a period of decline.
C. They are diseases that the WHO has classified as being poorly understood.
D. They occur in both developing and developed countries.*
Answer:
D
Question: In which portion of the digestive tract does digestion begin?
Answer Choices:
a. pharynx
b. esophagus
c. mouth
d. stomach
Answer:
c
Question: Where is the majority of our water reabsorbed into the blood?
Answer Choices:
a. Ascending loop of Henle
b. Collecting duct
c. Proximal convoluted tubule
d. Distal convoluted tubule
e. Descending loop of Henle
Answer:
c. Proximal convoluted tubule
Question: Hormones secreted by the hypothalamus travel through the ____ from the hypothalamus to the ____.
Answer Choices:
A. hypothalamohypophyseal portal system, anterior pituitary gland
B. hypothalamohypophyseal tract, posterior pituitary gland
C. hypothalamohypophyseal portal system, posterior pituitary gland
D. hypothalamohypophyseal tract, anterior pituitary gland
Answer:
A. hypothalamohypophyseal portal system, anterior pituitary gland