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Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
Multiple Choice
1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. Regulatory DNA
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
2. Genomics is the analysis of
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.
Answer: e
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to make
observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Charles Sherrington.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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,e. Camillo @swGolgi @swand @swSantiago @swRamón
@swy @swCajal. @swAnswer: @swd
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw1. @swRemembering
5. Which @swfunction @swis @swa @swcharacteristic @swprimarily @swof @swneurons @swonly, @swand @swnot @swglia?
a. Transmits @swaction @swpotentials
b. Supports @swelectrical @swsignals
c. Repairs @swthe @swnervous @swsystem
d. Prevents @swregeneration @swof @swthe @swnervous @swsystem
e. Produces
@swmyelin
@swAnswer: @swa
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw1. @swRemembering
6. In @swwhich @swpart @swof @swa @swneuron @swwould @swmost @swof @swthe @swendoplasmic @swreticulum @swbe
@swconcentrated?
a. Postsynaptic @swterminal
b. Presynaptic @swterminal
c. Axon
d. Cell @swbody
e. Dendrite
@swAnswer:
@swd
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw1. @swRemembering
7. Which @swintracellular @swcomponent @swfacilitates @swthe @swprocesses @swof @swendocytosis
@swand @swexocytosis @swunderlying @swsynaptic @swcommunication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic @swreticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi @swapparatus
e. Nucleus
@swAnswer:
@swc
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw2. @swUnderstanding
8. Most @swneurons @swhave
a. one @swaxon @swhillock @sw(initial @swsegment).
b. multiple @swaxon @swhillocks @sw(initial @swsegments).
c. one @swdendrite.
d. one @swaxon @swhillock @sw(initial @swsegment) @swand @swone @swdendrite.
e. multiple @swaxon @swhillocks @sw(initial @swsegments) @swand @swone
@swdendrite. @swAnswer: @swa
Textbook @swReference: @swNeurons
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@swRemembering
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, Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
Multiple Choice
1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. Regulatory DNA
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
2. Genomics is the analysis of
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.
Answer: e
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to make
observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Charles Sherrington.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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,e. Camillo @swGolgi @swand @swSantiago @swRamón
@swy @swCajal. @swAnswer: @swd
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw1. @swRemembering
5. Which @swfunction @swis @swa @swcharacteristic @swprimarily @swof @swneurons @swonly, @swand @swnot @swglia?
a. Transmits @swaction @swpotentials
b. Supports @swelectrical @swsignals
c. Repairs @swthe @swnervous @swsystem
d. Prevents @swregeneration @swof @swthe @swnervous @swsystem
e. Produces
@swmyelin
@swAnswer: @swa
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw1. @swRemembering
6. In @swwhich @swpart @swof @swa @swneuron @swwould @swmost @swof @swthe @swendoplasmic @swreticulum @swbe
@swconcentrated?
a. Postsynaptic @swterminal
b. Presynaptic @swterminal
c. Axon
d. Cell @swbody
e. Dendrite
@swAnswer:
@swd
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw1. @swRemembering
7. Which @swintracellular @swcomponent @swfacilitates @swthe @swprocesses @swof @swendocytosis
@swand @swexocytosis @swunderlying @swsynaptic @swcommunication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic @swreticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi @swapparatus
e. Nucleus
@swAnswer:
@swc
Textbook @swReference: @swCellular @swComponents @swof @swthe @swNervous
@swSystem @swBloom’s @swLevel: @sw2. @swUnderstanding
8. Most @swneurons @swhave
a. one @swaxon @swhillock @sw(initial @swsegment).
b. multiple @swaxon @swhillocks @sw(initial @swsegments).
c. one @swdendrite.
d. one @swaxon @swhillock @sw(initial @swsegment) @swand @swone @swdendrite.
e. multiple @swaxon @swhillocks @sw(initial @swsegments) @swand @swone
@swdendrite. @swAnswer: @swa
Textbook @swReference: @swNeurons
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