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ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY 4TH EDITION
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RichardW.Hill,GordonA.Wyse & Margaret Anderson
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Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition H
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ill • Wyse • Anderson zl zl zl zl




Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
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TEST BANK QUESTIONS zl zl




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1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
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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.
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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. An
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Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology Bloom’s zl zl zl zl zl zl zl



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2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists wo
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uld study its
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a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. ecology.
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Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology B
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loom’s Category: 2. Understanding zl zl zl




3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
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,a. Evolution
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c. Morphology
d. Ecology
Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology B
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4. In the study of physiology, the term “
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” refers to the components of living animals and the interactions among those compone
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nts that enable animals to perform as they do.
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a. feedback
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d. mechanism
Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’
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s Category: 1. Remembering
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5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
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a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP. zl zl zl zl zl zl



b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
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c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
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d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction. A zl zl zl zl zl zl zl



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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’
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6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the fire
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fly?
a. Oxygen
b. ATP
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’
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s Category: 2. Understanding
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7. In the firefly, light is emitted when
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a. ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
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c. the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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8. Which of the following is considered the “on” switch for the light-
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emitting reaction of the firefly? zl zl zl zl



a. Oxygen
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d. ATP
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’
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s Category: 3. Applying
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9. A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution and is ad
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a. an adaptation.
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d. evolution.
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10. What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
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a. Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species.
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b. All fireflies emit light to lure prey.
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c. Male fireflies emit light to attract mates.
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d. Male fireflies emit light to evade predators. A
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’
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11. Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
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a. The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision
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c. The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
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d. The neuroanatomyof the eye
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’
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a. evolutionary
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