TEST BANK Animal Physiology FOURTH EDITION 2026 version

TEST BANK
Animal
Physiology
FOURTH EDITION




TEST BANK


HILL • WYSE • ANDERSON

, Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage


TEST BANK QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice

1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
b. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
c. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
d. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating

2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists
would study its
a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. ecology.
d. cell physiology.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?

,a. Evolution
b. Cell physiology
c. Morphology
d. Ecology
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

4. In the study of physiology, the term “ ” refers to the components of living
animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as
they do.
a. feedback
b. regulation
c. natural selection
d. mechanism
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering

5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the
firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. ATP
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
TextbookxReference:xMechanismxandxOrigin:xPhysiology’sxTwoxCentralxQuestionsxBlo
om’sxCategory:x2.xUnderstanding

7. Inxthexfirefly,xlightxisxemittedxwhen
a. ATPxcombinesxwithxluciferin,xformingxluciferyl-AMP.
b. releasedxnitricxoxidexblocksxthexmitochondria’sxusexofxoxygen.
c. thexelectron-excitedxproductxofxO2x andxluciferyl-AMPxreturnsxtoxitsxgroundxstate.
d. luciferasexisxactivatedxbyxoxygen
.xAnswer:xc
TextbookxReference:xMechanismxandxOrigin:xPhysiology’sxTwoxCentralxQuestions

, Bloom’sxCategory:x5.xEvaluating

8. Whichxofxthexfollowingxisxconsideredxthex“on”xswitchxforxthexlight-
emittingxreactionxofxthexfirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitricxoxide
d. ATP
Answer:xc
TextbookxReference:xMechanismxandxOrigin:xPhysiology’sxTwoxCentralxQuestionsxBlo
om’sxCategory:x3.xApplying

9. Axphysiologicalxmechanismxorxotherxtraitxthatxisxaxproductxofxevolutionxand
xisxadvantageousxisxcalled
a. anxadaptation.
b. naturalxselection.
c. adaptivexsignificance.
d. evolution.
Answer:xa
TextbookxReference:xMechanismxandxOrigin:xPhysiology’sxTwoxCentralxQuestionsxBlo
om’sxCategory:x1.xRemembering

10. Whatxisxthexadaptivexsignificancexofxlightxemissionxinxthexfirefly?
a. Femalexfirefliesxemitxlightxinxsuchxaxwayxthatxdistinguishesxtheirxspecies.
b. Allxfirefliesxemitxlightxtoxlurexprey.
c. Malexfirefliesxemitxlightxtoxattractxmates.
d. Malexfirefliesxemitxlightxtoxevadexpredator
s.xAnswer:xc
TextbookxReference:xMechanismxandxOrigin:xPhysiology’sxTwoxCentralxQuestionsxBlo
om’sxCategory:x2.xUnderstanding

11. Whichxofxthexfollowingxisxaxsimilarityxbetweenxanxoctopusxandxaxfish?
a. Thexevolutionaryxadaptationxofxexcellentxvision
b. Thexmechanismxofxvision
c. Thexprocessingxofxvisualxsignalsxbeforexreachingxthexopticxnerve
d. Thexneuroanatomyxofxthexey
exAnswer:xa
TextbookxReference:xMechanismxandxOrigin:xPhysiology’sxTwoxCentralxQuestionsxBlo
om’sxCategory:x5.xEvaluating

12. Researchxinxthexfieldxof
physiologyxemphasizesxsynthesisxacrossxlevelsxofxbiologicalxorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative