Anatomy Final Exam with Complete
Solutions
True or False: The hollow center of a blood vessel is called the endothelium. - Correct
Answers -False
True or False: Pericardial (serous) fluid is located in a space external to the visceral
pericardium. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: The coronary sinus carries oxygenated blood. - Correct Answers -False
True or False: The nephron is considered the functional filtration unit of the kidney. -
Correct Answers -True
True or False: Following boyles law, air flows from a region of higher pressure into a
region of lower pressure within the lungs - Correct Answers -True
True or False: The tunica intima is composed primarily of a single layer of squamous
epithelial cells known as the endothelium. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: During swallowing elevation of the uvula and soft palate prevents food or
fluid from entering the nasopharynx. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum. - Correct
Answers -True
True or False: The heart cannot contract without signals from the autonomic nervous
system. - Correct Answers -False
True or False: The testes are the male gonads. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Cilia in the lower respiratory tract beat so as to move mucus and trapped
dust in a superior direction. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Sympathetic stimulation results in constriction of bronchioles. - Correct
Answers -False
True or False: The scrotum provides an environment for the testes that is normally 2 to
3 degrees celsius higher than normal core body temperature. - Correct Answers -False
, True or False: The majority of nutrient digestion and absorption occurs in the small
intestine. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: In the uterine tubes, peristaltic contractions and ciliary movement assist
the movement of the oocyte or fertilized ovum into the uterus. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Slow twitch muscle fibers are specialized to contract for long periods of
time and are fatigue resistant. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Lysosome functions range from the digestion of materials by the cell to
the self-destruction of the cell. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: In the hierarchy of skeletal muscle fiber components myofilaments are
considered muscle cells. - Correct Answers -False
True or False: The frontal plane divides the body into superior and inferior sections. -
Correct Answers -False
What is deglutition?
a. Taking food into the mouth
b. Chewing and mixing food with saliva
c. Secretion of mucus
d. Swallowing
e. Rhythmic alternate contraction of muscle layers - Correct Answers -d. Swallowing
What is the major function of plasma fibrinogen?
a. carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide
b. regulating blood clotting
c. regulating osmotic pressure
d. storing energy as ATP - Correct Answers -b. regulating blood clotting
The layers of an artery wall is/are responsible for vasoconstriction and vasodilation
is/are the:
a. Tunica externa
b. Tunica interna
c. Tunica Media
d. All of these choices - Correct Answers -c. Tunica Media
There are four valves in the heart, what is the correct order in which blood flows through
these valves starting in the right atrium?
1. Bicuspid Valve
2. Tricuspid Valve
3. Pulmonary Semilunar
Solutions
True or False: The hollow center of a blood vessel is called the endothelium. - Correct
Answers -False
True or False: Pericardial (serous) fluid is located in a space external to the visceral
pericardium. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: The coronary sinus carries oxygenated blood. - Correct Answers -False
True or False: The nephron is considered the functional filtration unit of the kidney. -
Correct Answers -True
True or False: Following boyles law, air flows from a region of higher pressure into a
region of lower pressure within the lungs - Correct Answers -True
True or False: The tunica intima is composed primarily of a single layer of squamous
epithelial cells known as the endothelium. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: During swallowing elevation of the uvula and soft palate prevents food or
fluid from entering the nasopharynx. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum. - Correct
Answers -True
True or False: The heart cannot contract without signals from the autonomic nervous
system. - Correct Answers -False
True or False: The testes are the male gonads. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Cilia in the lower respiratory tract beat so as to move mucus and trapped
dust in a superior direction. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Sympathetic stimulation results in constriction of bronchioles. - Correct
Answers -False
True or False: The scrotum provides an environment for the testes that is normally 2 to
3 degrees celsius higher than normal core body temperature. - Correct Answers -False
, True or False: The majority of nutrient digestion and absorption occurs in the small
intestine. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: In the uterine tubes, peristaltic contractions and ciliary movement assist
the movement of the oocyte or fertilized ovum into the uterus. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Slow twitch muscle fibers are specialized to contract for long periods of
time and are fatigue resistant. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Lysosome functions range from the digestion of materials by the cell to
the self-destruction of the cell. - Correct Answers -True
True or False: In the hierarchy of skeletal muscle fiber components myofilaments are
considered muscle cells. - Correct Answers -False
True or False: The frontal plane divides the body into superior and inferior sections. -
Correct Answers -False
What is deglutition?
a. Taking food into the mouth
b. Chewing and mixing food with saliva
c. Secretion of mucus
d. Swallowing
e. Rhythmic alternate contraction of muscle layers - Correct Answers -d. Swallowing
What is the major function of plasma fibrinogen?
a. carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide
b. regulating blood clotting
c. regulating osmotic pressure
d. storing energy as ATP - Correct Answers -b. regulating blood clotting
The layers of an artery wall is/are responsible for vasoconstriction and vasodilation
is/are the:
a. Tunica externa
b. Tunica interna
c. Tunica Media
d. All of these choices - Correct Answers -c. Tunica Media
There are four valves in the heart, what is the correct order in which blood flows through
these valves starting in the right atrium?
1. Bicuspid Valve
2. Tricuspid Valve
3. Pulmonary Semilunar
