Table of Contents
PART I. FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSIOLOGY
1:Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
2:Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
3:Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
4:Physiological Development and Epigenetics
5:Transport of Solutes and Water
PART II. FOOD, ENERGY, AND TEMPERATURE
6:Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
7:Energy Metabolism
8:Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
9:The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
10:Thermal Relations
11:Food, Energy, and Temperature at Work: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places
PART III. INTEGRATING SYSTEMS
12:Neurons
13:Synapses
14:Sensory Processes
15:Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
16:Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
17:Reproduction
18:Integrating Systems at Work: Animal Navigation
,PART IV. MOVEMENT AND MUSCLE
19:Control of Movement: The Motor Bases of Animal Behavior
20:Muscle
21:Movement and Muscle at Work: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse
PART V. OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE, AND INTERNAL TRANSPORT
22:Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Physiology
23:External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
24:Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid-Base
Physiology)
25:Circulation
26:Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Trasnport at Work: Diving by Marine Mammals
PART VI. WATER, SALTS, AND EXCRETION
27:Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
28:Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
29:Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
30:Water, Salts, and Excretion at Work: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas
, Test Bank
to accompany
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
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?
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