Test Bank For Anatomy & Physiology The Unity Of form and Function 7th Edition by Kenneth S. Saladin

1.

Sometimes anatomical terms come from origins that do not lend any insight into their meaning.

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Topic: Module A05 Basic terminology.
Learning Outcome: 01.07e State some reasons why the literal meaning of a word may not lend to insight into its definition.
Section: 01.07
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

2.

Feeling for swollen lymph nodes is an example of auscultation.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

3.

We can see through bones with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

4.

Histology is the study of structures that can be observed without a magnifying lens.

FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Topic: Module A05 Basic terminology.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

5.

Cells were first named by microscopist Robert Hooke.

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science

6.

All functions of the body can be interpreted as the effects of cellular activity.

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science

7.

The hypothetico-deductive method is common in physiology, whereas the inductive method is common in anatomy.

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.03a Describe the inductive and hypothetico-deductive methods of obtaining scientific knowledge.
Section: 01.03
Topic: Scientific Method

8.

An individual scientific fact has more information than a theory.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.03c Explain what is meant by hypothesis, fact, law, and theory in science.
Section: 01.03
Topic: Scientific Method

9.

Evolutionary (Darwinian) medicine traces some of our diseases to our evolutionary past.

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.04a Explain why evolution is relevant to understanding human form and function.
Section: 01.04
Topic: Human origins and adaptations

10.

The terms development and evolution have the same meaning in physiology.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.04b Define evolution and natural selection.
Section: 01.04
Topic: Human origins and adaptations

11.

Organs are made of tissues.

TRUE

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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: A06.01 Describe, in order from simplest to most complex, the major levels of organization in the human organism.
HAPS Topic: Module A06 Levels of organization.
Learning Outcome: 01.05a List the levels of human structure from the most complex to the simplest.
Section: 01.05
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

12.

A molecule of water is more complex than a mitochondrion (organelle).

FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: A06.01 Describe, in order from simplest to most complex, the major levels of organization in the human organism.
HAPS Topic: Module A06 Levels of organization.
Learning Outcome: 01.05a List the levels of human structure from the most complex to the simplest.
Section: 01.05
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

13.

Homeostasis and occupying space are both unique characteristics of living things.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.06a State the characteristics that distinguish living organisms from nonliving objects.
Section: 01.06
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

14.

Positive feedback helps to restore normal function when one of the body’s physiological variables gets out of balance.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: B02.02 Compare and contrast positive and negative feedback in terms of the relationship between stimulus and response.
HAPS Topic: Module B02 General types of homeostatic mechanisms.
Learning Outcome: 01.06e Define positive feedback and give examples of its beneficial and harmful effects.
Section: 01.06
Topic: Types of homeostatic mechanisms

15.

Negative feedback is a self-amplifying chain of events that tends to produce rapid change in the body.

FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: B02.02 Compare and contrast positive and negative feedback in terms of the relationship between stimulus and response.
HAPS Topic: Module B02 General types of homeostatic mechanisms.
Learning Outcome: 01.06d Define negative feedback, give an example of it, and explain its importance to homeostasis.
Section: 01.06
Topic: Types of homeostatic mechanisms

16.

Anatomists around the world adhere to a lexicon of standard international terms, which stipulates both Latin names and accepted English equivalents.

TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Topic: Module A05 Basic terminology.
Learning Outcome: 01.07a Explain why modern anatomical terminology is so heavily based on Greek and Latin.
Section: 01.07
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

17.

Feeling structures with your fingertips is called _________, whereas tapping on the body and listening for sounds of abnormalities is called ____________.

A.  palpation; auscultation 

B.  auscultation; percussion 

C.  percussion; auscultation 

D.  palpation; percussion 

E.  percussion; palpation 

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

18.

Known as “the father of modern anatomy,” __________ was the first to publish accurate drawings of the body.

A.  Vesalius 

B.  Maimonides 

C.  Harvey 

D.  Aristotle 

E.  van Leeuwenhoek 

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science

19.

The most influential medical textbook of the ancient era was written by __________.

A.  Hippocrates 

B.  Aristotle 

C.  Galen 

D.  Vesalius 

E.  Avicenna 

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science

20.

Which of these is the best imaging technique for routinely examining the anatomical development of a fetus?

A.  Auscultation 

B.  PET scan 

C.  MRI 

D.  Sonography 

E.  Radiography