BIO 201 Chapter 1 Smart Book Questions

Click and drag on elements in order Place the levels of structural hierarchy in the body in order of complexity, from the smallest/simplest at the top to the largest/most complex at the bottom.

1) atom 2) cell 3) tissue 4) organ 5) organ system 6) organism

An organ is best described as which of the following?

A structure composed of at least two different tissues, with recognizable boundaries, and with a discrete function

Students are studying the shape, size, and parts of the heart. They are studying the ______ of the heart.

Anatomy

Which is the smallest particle with a unique chemical identity?

Atom

Anatomy is the study of ______.

Body Structures

In the word cardiology, the root is ______.

Cardi-

In which of the following does a surgeon learn a procedure on animals before practicing on humans?

Comparative physiology

Which is an example of a class of tissue?

Connective

An example of a well-designed experiment would have a(n) ______ group, which would receive a placebo, and a(n) ______ group, which would receive the intervention (i.e. treatment) being tested.

Control, Experimental

Corpora is the plural form of

Corpus

What is the plural form of cortex?

Cortices

The term for the process of carefully separating tissues to reveal anatomical relationships is

Dissection

Without the use of energy, matter tends to flow ______.

Down Gradients

A structure that carries out a response to a stimulus is called a(n)

Effector

Responsiveness is also known as

Excitability

Information that can be independently verified by any trained person is called which of the following?

Fact

True or false: The scientific method is based on an informed conjecture that is capable of being tested and potentially proven false by experimentation or data collection

False

True or false: The scientific method is based on an informed conjecture that is capable of being tested and potentially proven false by experimentation or data collection.

False

True or false: The study of ultrastructure focuses on examining individual cells, but not the fine details of cells

False

True or false: The study of ultrastructure focuses on examining individual cells, but not the fine details of cells.

False

Which of the following are examples of a positive feedback mechanism? Select all that apply.

Formation of a Blood Clot Contractions during Labor

A difference in chemical concentration, electrical charge, physical pressure, temperature, or other variable between one point and another is a physiological

Gradient

What type of anatomy focuses on body structures that can be observed without magnification?

Gross Anatomy

The study of normal tissues, or groups of cells and their surrounding extracellular materials, is called

Histology

Which branch of medicine examines tissues for disease?

Histopathology

Which method of reasoning begins with a hypothesis or question and then tries to answer that question?

Hypothetico-deductive method

Match the word elements on the left with the proper description on the right for the word "hypothermia."

Hypr: Prefix Therm: Root Ia: Suffix

To be considered a scientific fact, information must be what?

Independently verified

The ______ method of study is the process of drawing conclusions and making predictions from repeated observation. It is a specific tool within the scientific method.

Inductive

What is the act of looking at the body called?

Inspection

What are the benefits of a large sample size? Select all that apply.

It controls for individual variation. It enables us to place greater confidence in the outcome. It controls for chance events.

Which of the following are the criteria for a good hypothesis?

It is testable and falsifiable. It is consistent with what is already known.

Most exploratory surgery has been replaced with ______.

Medical Imaging Techniques

The inductive method allows one to make conclusions based on what?

Observation

What is a group of organs with a unique collective function called?

Organ System

A single complete individual capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homeostasis is termed a living

Organism

Which of the following describes a single complete individual?

Organism

The subdiscipline of physiology that is concerned with the mechanisms of disease is

Pathophysiology

A review that is the method of evaluating results by other experts in that field is called a(n)

Peer Review

Medical mistakes, such as prescribing the wrong dose of medication, can result from failure to consider which of the following?

Physiological variation

The name of a substance with no significant effect on a subject's physiology but is given to a control group that thinks they are being given the treatment is a(n)

Placebo

Which structure encloses a human cell and controls the traffic of molecules in and out of the cell

Plasma Membrane

Which structure encloses a human cell and controls the traffic of molecules in and out of the cell?

Plasma Membrane

Contractions during childbirth is an example of a feedback mechanism

Positive

What type of feedback is a self-amplifying cycle in which a physiological change leads to an even greater change in the same direction?

Positive

Which of the following describes the integration center of a feedback mechanism?

Processes information, relates it to other information, and makes a decision of what a response should be

What is a cell or organ that is specialized to detect a stimulus called?

Receptor

The number of animals (or people) used in an experimental study is called the _____ size.

Sample

The number of animals (or people) used in an experimental study is called the _____size

Sample

Which of the following is a process by which an educated guess is capable of being tested and may be proven false by experimentation?

Scientific Method

Changes in the environment, to which organisms respond, are called what?

Stimuli

A prefix and a(n) ___ are word-elements that modify the core meaning of the root

Suffix

An international body of anatomists convened in 1998 to standardize anatomical terminology. The result was a book known as the ______, which accepts both Latin and common English equivalents.

Terminologia Anatomica

Terminologia Anatomica: Nomina Anatomica:

Terminologia Anatomica: Included Latin and commonly used English terms. Devised in 1998 Nomina Anatomica: Purged eponyms from terminology and included only Latin terms. Devised in the late 1800s

What is gross anatomy?

The study of body structures that can be observed without magnification

An aggregation of cells and extracellular materials, which perform a discrete function, is known as a(n)

Tissue

The name of a back muscle is ______, while the name of a wrist bone is ______.

Trapezius; Trapezium

If the textbook states a value for a typical human heart rate, you should assume that the value refers to the heart rate of a(n) ______.

a Healthy 22 Year Old

The study of individual cells is called

cytology

Part of a hip bone is an ______, while the final portion of the small intestine is the ______.

ilium, ileum

Match each term with its correct definition. Neurophysiology Endocrinology Pathophysiology Comparative physiology

neurophysiology = physiology of the nervous system endocrinology = physiology of hormones pathophysiology = study of disease mechanisms comparitive physiology = study of how biological processes vary in different animal species