Question: Low pressure, porous vessels that reabsorb solutes and water from the tubule cells.
Answer Options: a) Peritubular capillaries, b) Efferent arterioles, c) Vasa recta, d) Afferent arterioles.
Answer: a) Peritubular capillaries.
Question: The act of emptying the bladder is called voiding.
Answer Options: a) True, b) False.
Answer: a) True.
Question: The urethra contains an internal sphincter of smooth muscle.
Answer Options: a) True, b) False.
Answer: a) True.
Question: Which of the choices below is the salt level-monitoring part of the nephron?
Answer Options: a) macula densa, b) principal cell, c) nephron loop, d) renal corpuscle.
Answer: a) macula densa. Quiz 3 (8 Questions)
Question: The major targets of growth hormone are ______.
Answer Options: a) the bones and skeletal muscles, b) the liver, c) the kidneys, d) the blood vessels.
Answer: a) the bones and skeletal muscles.
Question: Which organ is responsible for synthesizing ANP?
Answer Options: a) the skin, b) the liver, c) the heart, d) the spleen.
Answer: c) the heart.
Question: The single most important regulator of calcium levels in the blood is ______.
Answer Options: a) thyroid hormone, b) calcitonin, c) parathyroid hormone.
Answer: c) parathyroid hormone.
Question: Aldosterone ______.
Answer Options: a) is secreted by the neurohypophysis, b) functions to increase sodium reabsorption, c) presence decreases potassium concentration in the blood, d) production is greatly influenced by ACTH.
Answer: b) functions to increase sodium reabsorption.
Question: Which of the choices below is the parent cell for all formed elements of blood?
Answer Options: a) hemocytoblast, b) pluripotent stem cell, c) megakaryocyte, d) proerythroblast.
Answer: a) hemocytoblast.
Question: No visible cytoplasmic granules are present in ______.
Answer Options: a) monocytes, b) eosinophils, c) basophils, d) lymphocytes.
Answer: d) lymphocytes.
Question: A lack of intrinsic factor, leading to a deficiency of vitamin B12 and causing an appearance of large, pale cells called macrocytes, is characteristic of ______.
Answer Options: a) aplastic anemia, b) sickle cell anemia, c) polycythemia, d) pernicious anemia.
Answer: d) pernicious anemia.
Question: Which of the following is characteristic of all leukocytes?
Answer Options: a) They are phagocytic, b) They are the least numerous of the formed elements in blood, c) They have cytoplasmic granules, d) They are nucleated.
Answer: d) They are nucleated.