Answer Choices:
Muscle
Epithelial
Nervous
Connective
Answer: Nervous
Question: Which of the following is not one of the major functions of muscles?
Answer Choices:
Movement
Protection
Heat production
Posture
Breathing
Answer: Protection
Question: The “resting and digesting” division of the autonomic nervous system is the
Answer Choices:
A. Sympathetic division.
B. Parasympathetic division.
Answer: B. Parasympathetic division
Question: Which layer of the skin is composed mainly of dense irregular connective tissue containing collagen and elastic fibers?
Answer Choices:
Hypodermis
Basement membrane
Epidermis
Dermis
Subcutaneous layer
Answer: Dermis
Question: What is another name for the shaft of a long bone?
Answer Choices:
diaphysis
epiphysis
metaphysis
periosteum
marrow
Answer: diaphysis
Question: You stepped on a nail. List the sequential layers (or strata) of the epidermis that the nail penetrated through to finally reach the dermis.
Answer Choices:
basale, spinosum, granulosom, corneum
granulosom, spinosum, lucidum, corneum, basale
corneum, lucidum, granulosom, spinosum, basale
corneum, granulosom, spinosum, basale
corneum, granulosom, lucidum, spinosum, basale
Answer: corneum, lucidum, granulosom, spinosum, basale
Question: Pseudostratified columnar epithelium ciliated variety _______.
Answer: lines most of the respiratory tract
Question: What is the role of tropomyosin in skeletal muscles?
Answer Choices:
A. Tropomyosin serves as a contraction inhibitor by blocking the myosin binding sites on the actin molecules.
B. Tropomyosin serves as a contraction inhibitor by blocking the actin binding sites on the myosin molecules.
C. Tropomyosin is the receptor for the active transport of potassium into the cell.
D. Tropomyosin is the chemical that activates the myosin heads.
Answer: A. Tropomyosin serves as a contraction inhibitor by blocking the myosin binding sites on the actin molecules (Marked correct)
Question: What is the fibrous covering on the surface of bone that is involved in thickening of the bone called?
Answer Choices:
periosteum
endosteum
marrow
epiphysis
metaphysic
Answer: periosteum
Question: Bending your head back until it hurts is an example of _______.
Answer Choices:
A. extension
B. flexion
Answer: A. extension