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The nose is _______ to the neck. - Answer-superior Surgery is being done on the proximal part of an arm. Which location is the surgery being performed? - Answer-A A child falls out of bed and suffers a broken metatarsal. The child has broken their _______________. - Answer-foot You see a person winking at you. Which muscle is the person using? - Answer-orbicularis oculi The branch of physical anthropology where anthropological data and techniques are used to determine sex, age, race, or percentage of skeletal or biological materials in civil or criminal law. - Answer-forensic anthropology Animal tissue that functions mainly to bind and support other tissues, having a sparse population of cells scattered through an extracellular matrix. - Answer-connective tissue The skeleton of the trunk and head is referred to as ___________. - Answer-axial skeleton connective tissue in which fat is stored and which has the cells distended by droplets of fat. - Answeradipose tissue which of the following describes tissues? - Answer-a group of associated cells with similar structure and function which type of tissue is shown in figure 1? - Answer-Connective Which type of tissue is shown in Figure 1? - Answer-BoneA person suffers from a condition resulting in a lack of coordinated movement in the walls of the small intestine. Which tissue is most likely malfunctioning? - Answer-Smooth muscle You are looking at a prepared slide with a microscope and see striations. What tissue are you looking at? - Answer-Epithelial What are the most probable functions of the tissue in the figure to the right? - Answer-Secretion and absorption Which of the following bones would be best used to determine gender? - Answer-pelvis Which of the following bones would be best used to determine height? - Answer-femur The separation of nucleic acids or proteins, on the basis of their size and electrical charge, by measuring their rate of movement through an electrical field in a gel - Answer-Gel electrophoresis When DNA moves through an Agarose gel electrophoresis, the fragments with ___________ base pairs move more quickly and are further towards the end of the gel when the run is complete - Answer-less A molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses is ___________________. - Answer-DNA The measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics, especially as a means of verifying personal identity - Answer-Biometrics DNA is _______________________ and will move through the gel toward the __________________ end of the electrophoresis chamber. - Answer-negative, positive Which bio-metric is considered Non-Invasive? - Answer-A: all of these (Retinal scan, vein mapping, voice recognition)Differences in DNA sequence on homologous chromosomes that can result in different patterns of DNA segments resulting from treatment with restriction enzymes. - Answer-RFLPs An enzyme that cuts DNA at or near specific recognition nucleotide sequences known as restriction sites - Answer-Restriction Enzymes A depression on the surface of the brain is - Answer-Sulcus The brain and spinal cord are part of which nervous system - Answer-Central Nervous System Breathing and Heart rate are controlled by the - Answer-Brain Stem Vision is controlled by the - Answer-occipital lobe If the cerebellum experiences a large blow from a blunt object, what would probably happen? - Answeruncoordinated body movement Nerves the carry impluses toward the brain are - Answer-sensory nerves A simple spinal reflex goes along which of the following reflex arcs - Answer-affent neuron, interneuron, efferent neuron An automatic response to a stimulus that often does not pass through the brain is called - Answer-reflex Which membrane protein is responsible for restoring the original concentration of ions during the action potential? - Answer-Na+/K+ Pump Which portion of the neuron contains the most neurotransmitter receptor sites? - Answer-Dendrites At rest, the outside the axon is: - Answer-positive