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Anatomy And Physiology The Unity Of
Form And Function 8th Edition Saladin
Test Bank
Chapter 01 Major Themes of Anatomy and Physiology Answer Key

True / False Questions
1.Sometimes anatomical terms come from origins that do not lend any insight into their meaning.

TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Topic: Module A05 Basic terminology.
Learning Outcome: 01.07e State some reasons why the literal meaning of a word may not lend to insight into its definition.
Section: 01.07
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

2. Feeling for swollen lymph nodes is an example of auscultation.

FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
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Me: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

3. We can see through bones with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

4. Histology is the study of structures that can be observed without a magnifying lens.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Topic: Module A05 Basic terminology.
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

5. Cells were first named by microscopist Robert Hooke.

TRUE
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Blooms Level: 1. Remember




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, Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science

6. All functions of the body can be interpreted as the effects of cellular activity.

TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science

7. The hypothetico-deductive method is common in physiology, whereas the inductive method is common
in anatomy.

TRUE
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Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.03a Describe the inductive and hypothetico-deductive methods of obtaining scientific knowledge.
Section: 01.03
Topic: Scientific Method

8. An individual scientific fact has more information than a theory.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.03c Explain what is meant by hypothesis, fact, law, and theory in science.
Section: 01.03
Topic: Scientific Method

9. Evolutionary (Darwinian) medicine traces some of our diseases to our evolutionary past.

TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.04a Explain why evolution is relevant to understanding human form and function.
Section: 01.04
Topic: Human origins and adaptations

10. The terms development and evolution have the same meaning in physiology.

FALSE

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Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.04b Define evolution and natural selection.
Section: 01.04
Topic: Human origins and adaptations




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,11. Organs are made of tissues.

TRUE
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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: A06.01 Describe, in order from simplest to most complex, the major levels of organization in the human organism.
HAPS Topic: Module A06 Levels of organization.
Learning Outcome: 01.05a List the levels of human structure from the most complex to the simplest.
Section: 01.05
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

12. A molecule of water is more complex than a mitochondrion (organelle).

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: A06.01 Describe, in order from simplest to most complex, the major levels of organization in the human organism.
HAPS Topic: Module A06 Levels of organization.
Learning Outcome: 01.05a List the levels of human structure from the most complex to the simplest.
Section: 01.05
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

13. Homeostasis and occupying space are both unique characteristics of living things.

FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 3. Apply
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.06a State the characteristics that distinguish living organisms from nonliving objects.
Section: 01.06
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

14. Positive feedback helps to restore normal function when one of the body's physiological variables gets
out of balance.

FALSE
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Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: B02.02 Compare and contrast positive and negative feedback in terms of the relationship between stimulus and response.
HAPS Topic: Module B02 General types of homeostatic mechanisms.
Learning Outcome: 01.06e Define positive feedback and give examples of its beneficial and harmful effects.
Section: 01.06
Topic: Types of homeostatic mechanisms

15. Negative feedback is a self-amplifying chain of events that tends to produce rapid change in the body.

FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Objective: B02.02 Compare and contrast positive and negative feedback in terms of the relationship between stimulus and response.
HAPS Topic: Module B02 General types of homeostatic mechanisms.
Learning Outcome: 01.06d Define negative feedback, give an example of it, and explain its importance to homeostasis.
Section: 01.06
Topic: Types of homeostatic mechanisms



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, 16. Anatomists around the world adhere to a lexicon of standard international terms, which stipulates both
Latin names and accepted English equivalents.

TRUE
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Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
HAPS Topic: Module A05 Basic terminology.
Learning Outcome: 01.07a Explain why modern anatomical terminology is so heavily based on Greek and Latin.
Section: 01.07
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology




Multiple Choice Questions


17. Feeling structures with your fingertips is called , whereas tapping on the body and listening
for sounds of abnormalities is called .


A. palpation; auscultation
B. auscultation; percussion
C. percussion; auscultation
D. palpation; percussion
E. percussion; palpation

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 2. Understand
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.01b Describe several ways of studying human anatomy.
Section: 01.01
Topic: Scope of anatomy and physiology

18. Known as "the father of modern anatomy," was the first to publish accurate drawings of
the body.


A. Vesalius
B. Maimonides
C. Harvey
D. Aristotle
E. van Leeuwenhoek

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms Level: 1. Remember
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: 01.02b Describe the contributions of some key people who helped to bring about this transformation.
Section: 01.02
Topic: Origins of biomedical science




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