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1
Which of the following terms is defined as the study of structure by means of the cutting and separation of tissues?
A)percussion
B)auscultation
C)dissection
D)palpation
2
Which of the following scientific pioneers published On the Movement of the Heart and Blood Vessels in Animals?
A)Andreas Vesalius
B)William Harvey
C)Robert Hooke
D)Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
3
Proper experimental design includes all of the following except
A)statistical treatment of the results.
B)a very small sample size to prevent random or chance results.
C)methods to prevent experimenter bias such as the double-blind method.
D)the control group receives similar treatment to that of the experimental group, except for the test variable.
4
A law of nature describes the predictable ways in which matter and energy behave.
A)True
B)False
5
During human evolution, humans have developed all of the following characteristics: color and stereoscopic vision, bipedalism, and a prehensile hand.
A)True
B)False
6
Which of the following is the correct evolutionary sequence for our species?
A)Australopithecus-Homo erectus-Homo sapiens-Homo habilis
B)Homo habilis-Homo sapiens-Australopithecus-Homo erectus
C)Australopithecus-Homo habilis-Homo erectus-Homo sapiens
D)Homo erectus-Homo habilis-Homo sapiens-Australopithecus
7
Which of the following terms is used to describe our ability to sense and react to a variety of stimuli?
A)metabolism
B)responsiveness
C)differentiation
D)compartmentalization
8
A person can be declared legally dead if he or she has
A)very slow reflexes.
B)an erratic heartbeat.
C)weakened respiration.
D)no brainwaves for 24 hours.
9
Which of the following is one of our mammalian characteristics?
A)endothermy
B)dorsal hollow nerve cord
C)postanal tail
D)internal skeleton
10
Which of the following is not strictly a primate characteristic?
A)flat nails instead of claws
B)only two mammary glands
C)four upper and lower incisors
D)three middle ear bones
11
An organ is a mass of similar cells that forms a discrete region of our body.
A)True
B)False
12
If you become overheated, which of the following negative feedback mechanisms are used to lower your body temperature?
A)sweating and vasoconstriction of surface blood vessels
B)shivering and vasoconstriction of surface blood vessels
C)sweating and vasodilation of surface blood vessels
D)shivering and vasodilation of surface blood vessels
13
If a scientist were to speculate about the causes of a phenomenon without any definitive proof, it would be a/an:
A)hypothesis
B)theory
C)law of nature
D)fact
E)double blind
14
All living things react to stimuli in their environment. This statement most closely relates to which characteristic of life?
A)metabolism
B)development
C)responsiveness
D)assimilation
E)reproduction
15
Which of the following is not a common characteristic of both fungi and animals?
A)eukaryotic
B)maintain a metabolism
C)heterotrophic
D)endothermic
E)metabolic
16
Humans are differentiated from other primates because they have:
A)a hollow nerve chord
B)an internal skeleton
C)endothermy
D)opposable thumbs
E)bipedalism
17
Australopithecus:
A)had six incisors
B)was bipedal
C)had a larger brain than Homo sapiens
D)was a type of monkey
E)was not multicellular
18
The theory of evolution:
A)is based on very little documented evidence
B)is irrelevant to the study of modern physiology
C)explains the slight variance in DNA structure between chimpanzees and humans.
D)does not relate to bacterial resistance
E)predicts what new species will look like prior to their appearance on earth
19
The early scientist who was the first to discover the role of the heart, arteries, and veins in blood circulation was:
A)Avicenna
B)Paracelsus
C)Galen
D)Aristotle
E)Harvey
20
Which scientist first observed cells under a microscope?
A)Harvey
B)Hooke
C)van Leeuwenhoek
D)Schleiden
E)Schwann
21
The tendency for the bodies of living things to maintain more or less stable internal conditions is:
A)the cell theory
B)set point
C)positive feedback
D)homeostasis
E)dynamic equilibrium
22
If your blood pressure started to rise very rapidly, a set of activities that your body would undertake to reverse this potentially dangerous condition would probably begin. The processes that would restore stability are called collectively:
A)homeostasis
B)negative feedback
C)set point
D)the cell theory
E)positive feedback





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