HESI A2 V2 BIOLOGY EXAM II 2026 FULL SOLVED QUESTIONS ANSWERS GENETICS AND INHERITANCE REVIEW SHEET.pdf

HESI A2 V2 BIOLOGY EXAM II 2026 FULL
SOLVED QUESTIONS ANSWERS GENETICS
AND INHERITANCE REVIEW SHEET

◉ How are bones classified?
Answer: By shape.
Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*


◉ What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone?
Answer: Osteoblasts


◉ What occurs to osteoblasts when they become fixed in the dense
bone matrix?
Answer: They stop dividing but continue to maintain body tissues as
osteocytes.


◉ How many bones make up the axial skeleton?

,Answer: 28 bones of the skull. 14-facial, 14-cranium.


◉ How many bones make the facial skeleton?
Answer: 2 nasal bones
2 maxillary bones
2 zygomatic bones
1 mandible
2 palatine bones
1 vomer
2 lacrimal bones
2 inferior nasal bones


◉ What are the bones of the cranium?
Answer: single occipital
frontal
ethmoid
sphenoid
paired parietal
temporal
ossicles


◉ What bone structures are in the ossicles (ears) ?

, Answer: malleus, incus, stapes


◉ How many bones make the skeletal column?
Answer: 33 bones


◉ How many cervical vertebrae in the skeletal column?
Answer: 7


◉ How many thoracic vertebrae in the skeletal column?
Answer: 12


◉ How many lumbar vertebrae?
Answer: 5


◉ How many sacral vertebrae?
Answer: 5


◉ How many coccygeal vertebrae?
Answer: 1-the tailbone


◉ What makes up the final part of the axial skeleton?
Answer: the thorax