ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY 4TH EDITION
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Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse & Margaret Anderson
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, Test Bank
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Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
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TEST BANK QUESTIONS
Multiple Choice
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1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
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b. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
c. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
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d. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology
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2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists
would study its
a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
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c. ecology.
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d. cell physiology.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
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3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
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,a. Evolution
b. Cell physiology
c. Morphology
d. Ecology
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Answer: d
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4. In the study of physiology, the term “ ” refers to the components of living
animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as
they do.
a. feedback
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b. regulation
c. natural selection
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d. mechanism
Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
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d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.
Answer: a
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6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the
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firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. ATP U
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
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7. In the firefly, light is emitted when
a. ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
b. released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
c. the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
d. luciferase is activated by oxygen.
Answer: c
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8. Which of the following is considered the “on” switch for the light-emitting reaction of
the firefly?
a. Oxygen
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b. Luciferase
c. Nitric oxide
d. ATP
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Answer: c
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9. A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution and is
advantageous is called
a. an adaptation.
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b. natural selection.
c. adaptive significance.
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d. evolution.
Answer: a
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10. What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
a. Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species.
b. All fireflies emit light to lure prey.
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c. Male fireflies emit light to attract mates.
d. Male fireflies emit light to evade predators.
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Answer: c
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11. Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
a. The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision U
b. The mechanism of vision
c. The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
d. The neuroanatomy of the eye N
Answer: a
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12. Research in the field of physiology emphasizes synthesis across levels of
biological organization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
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