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BIO 169 CORE EXAMS SET 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
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✔✔Compare and contrast minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation and explain the
significance of each - ✔✔

✔✔Describe the relationship between anatomic dead space and physiological dead
space - ✔✔

✔✔Define the four different respiratory volume measurements and explain how the four
respiratory capacities are calculated from the volume measurements - ✔✔

✔✔Define and explain the significance of forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume
(FEV) and maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) - ✔✔

✔✔Define partial pressure and explain how its is altered with changes in total pressure
and the percentage of a gas - ✔✔

✔✔Describe a partial pressure gradient and the movement of a gas relative to its partial
pressure gradient - ✔✔

✔✔Explain the laws that govern gas solubility - ✔✔

✔✔Describe pulmonary gas exchange and the partial pressure gradients responsible -
✔✔

✔✔Name the two anatomic features of the respiratory membrane that contribute to
efficient pulmonary gas exchange - ✔✔

✔✔Explain ventilation perfusion coupling and how it maximizes pulmonary gas
exchange - ✔✔

✔✔Explain tissue gas exchange - ✔✔

✔✔Compare and contrast pulmonary and tissues gas exchange - ✔✔

✔✔Explain why hemoglobin is essential to oxygen transport - ✔✔

✔✔Describe the three ways carbon dioxide is transported in the blood - ✔✔

✔✔Explain oxygen binding to hemoglobin and the oxygen hemoglobin saturation curve
- ✔✔