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Test Bank to accompany Neuroscience, Sixth Edition by Dale Purves // 9780878937257 // Complete Guide Chapter 1-34| Latest Test Bank 100% Verified Answers with rationales | LATEST

Institution
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Course
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition

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Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System wi wi wi wi wi




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1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
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a. Exon
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Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics Bloom
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2. Genomics is the analysis of wi wi wi wi


a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
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b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
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c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
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d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
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e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a specie
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Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics Bloom
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3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to ma
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ke observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
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b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
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c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
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d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
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e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communicatio
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Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
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c. Charles Sherrington. wi


d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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5. Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
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a. Transmits action potentials wi wi


b. Supports electrical signals wi wi


c. Repairs the nervous system wi wi wi


d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
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6. In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
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a. Postsynaptic terminal wi


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c. Axon
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7. Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosi
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s underlying synaptic communication?
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a. Mitochondria
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c. Cytoskeleton
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8. Most neurons have wi wi


a. one axon hillock (initial segment).
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b. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments).
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d. one axon hillock (initial segment) and one dendrite.
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e. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments) and one dendrite
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, 9. Which statement best describes the function of a neuron with multiple, high
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ly branched dendrites and one axon?
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a. It passes information directly to multiple neurons.
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b. It cannot integrate information from multiple neurons.
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c. It receives information from only one other neuron.
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d. It integrates information from many neurons.
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e. The information it receives will not be relayed
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10. Which statement best describes most neurons?
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a. They receive information via axons.
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b. They transmit information to other cells via dendrites.
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d. They conduct signals bidirectionally.
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11. Compared with projection neurons, axons of local circuit neurons (interneurons)
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12. An action potential is a(n)
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change in the electrical potential across the nerve cell membrane.
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a. single
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13. The part of a synapse to which the contents of synaptic vesicles bind is called the
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