BIOL201 Week 6 Unit Exam 2 (50- Questions and Answers) American Public University

W6: Unit Exam 2 1. Question: Which of the following foods is best for bone health? 2. Question: Hematopoiesis is best described as: 3. Question: With respect to their direct effects on osseous tissue, which pair of hormones has actions that oppose each other? 4. Question: Wolff's law, which describes the effect of mechanical forces in bone modeling/remodeling, would predict that . 5. Question: Bone growth in diameter is known as: 6. Question: How many vertebrae are located in the thoracic region? 7. Question: The sternal angle is which of these? 8. Question: What unites the bodies of adjacent vertebrae? 9. Question: Which of the following is a function of the axial skeleton? 10. Question: True ribs are which of these? 11. Question: You can feel this bony landmark at your anterolateral hip. 12. Question: There are carpal bones and tarsal bones. 13. Question: Which of the following is the lateral bone of the lower leg? 14. Question: The distal end of the femur has a horseshoe shape made up of which of the following parts? 15. Question: Which is the lateral-most carpal bone of the proximal row? 16. Question: When the rounded process of one bone fits into the concave surface of another to allow movement in one plane it is called what type of joint? 17. Question: The proximal radioulnar joint . 18. Question: Which of these allows the head to rock forward and backward? 19. Question: The ankle joint . 20. Question: When the articulation surface of one bone is convex, and the reciprocal surface is concave it is called what type of joint? 21. Question: Which type of contraction allows a muscle to produce tension without changing the angle of a skeletal joint or moving a load? 22. Question: Which structures of cardiac muscle allows the cells to contract in waves so the heart can work as a pump? 23. Question: All of the following are functions of skeletal muscles except for which? 24. Question: A muscle-forming stem cell is called a what? 25. Question: Varying degrees of contractive force in a skeletal muscle are 26. Question: Think about the things that you do each day—talking, walking, sitting, standing, and running—all of these activities require movement of particular . 27. Question: Which of the following helps an agonist work? 28. Question: The skeletal muscles are divided into (muscles of the trunk and head) and (muscles of the arms and legs) categories. 29. Question: Anatomists name the skeletal muscles according to a number of criteria, each of which describes the muscle in some way. These include naming it . 30. Question: Which of the following statements is correct about what happens during flexion? 31. Question: A synapse is the location where the axon of a neuron connect with another neuron or a muscle fiber. The following characteristic(s) are always present in chemical synapses: 32. Question: The nervous system is involved in receiving about the environment around and then generating to that information. 33. Question: What neurotransmitter is released at the neuromuscular junction? 34. Question: Which of the following voltages would most likely be measured during 35. Question: Which of the following is probably going to propagate an action potential fastest? 36. Question: Which of these locations is where the greatest level of integration is taking place in the example of testing the temperature of something? 37. Question: Which part of a neuron transmits an electrical signal to a target cell ? 38. Question: Which part of a neuron transmits an electrical signal to a target cell? 39. Question: Which part of a neuron contains the nucleus? 40. Question: The division of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord is the nervous system. 41. Question: The two vertebral arteries merge to form which artery? 42. Question: Which non-nervous tissue develops from the neuroectoderm? 43. Question: Which primary vesicle of the embryonic nervous system does not differentiate into more vesicles at the secondary stage? 44. Question: What is the name for a bundle of axons within a nerve? 45. Question: All of the following are motor nerves EXCEPT: 46. Question: Where the CSF is filtered back into the blood for drainage from the nervous system. 47. Question: What gives rise to most of the muscle and connective tissues? 48. Question: The meninges protrude through the spinal column but nerves may not be involved and few symptoms are present. This describes which of the following? 49. Question: Which layer of the meninges surrounds and supports the sinuses that form the route through which blood drains from the CNS? 50. Question: What type of ganglion contains neurons that control homeostatic mechanisms of the body?