TRIDENT TECH BIO 211 EXAM 1 2026/2027 – BIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & TEST PREP
General Senses - correct answer ✔✔-located all over the body
-receptors not specialized
Special Senses - correct answer ✔✔-involve specific organ (all 3 located in head)
Mechanoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to mechanical stimuli (compression, bending or
stretching of receptors)
Chemoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to chemicals (odor molecules)
Photoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to light
Thermoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to temperature change
Nociceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to painful mechanical, chemical, and thermal stimuli
Proprioceptors - correct answer ✔✔Awareness of body position and movements (muscle sense)
Sensory Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔Decline in sensitivity to a prolonged stimulus
Superior Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking up and medially
Inferior Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking down and medially
Medial Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking medially
Lateral Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking laterally
Superior Oblique - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking down and laterally
Inferior Oblique - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking up and laterally
cleans, disinfects, lubricates - correct answer ✔✔The functions of tears (alphabetical order)
Fibrous Layer - correct answer ✔✔Sclera and cornea
Sclera - correct answer ✔✔-Posterior 4/5ths of eye
-white connective tissue maintains shape of eyeball and provides site for muscle attachment
Cornea - correct answer ✔✔-Anterior 1/5th of eye
-transparent
-refracts light that enters eye
QUESTIONS & TEST PREP
General Senses - correct answer ✔✔-located all over the body
-receptors not specialized
Special Senses - correct answer ✔✔-involve specific organ (all 3 located in head)
Mechanoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to mechanical stimuli (compression, bending or
stretching of receptors)
Chemoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to chemicals (odor molecules)
Photoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to light
Thermoreceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to temperature change
Nociceptors - correct answer ✔✔Respond to painful mechanical, chemical, and thermal stimuli
Proprioceptors - correct answer ✔✔Awareness of body position and movements (muscle sense)
Sensory Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔Decline in sensitivity to a prolonged stimulus
Superior Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking up and medially
Inferior Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking down and medially
Medial Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking medially
Lateral Rectus - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking laterally
Superior Oblique - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking down and laterally
Inferior Oblique - correct answer ✔✔Eye muscle for looking up and laterally
cleans, disinfects, lubricates - correct answer ✔✔The functions of tears (alphabetical order)
Fibrous Layer - correct answer ✔✔Sclera and cornea
Sclera - correct answer ✔✔-Posterior 4/5ths of eye
-white connective tissue maintains shape of eyeball and provides site for muscle attachment
Cornea - correct answer ✔✔-Anterior 1/5th of eye
-transparent
-refracts light that enters eye
