APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
1. What is the difference between anatomy and physiology?
ANS Anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts, whereas physiology is
molecule,
the study of the functionof body parts m
2. What are the levels of organization?
ANS subatomic particles, atom,macromolecule, organelle, cell,
tissue, organ, organ system, organis
3. What are the requirements of life?
,APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
ANS Water, food, oxygen, heat, pressure
4. What are the characteristics of life?
ANS Movement (internal or gross); Respon- siveness (reaction to internal or
external change); Growth (increase in size withoutchange in shape); Reproduction
(new organisms or new cells); Respiration (use ofoxygen; removal of CO2);
Digestion (breakdown of food); Absorption (movement ofsubstances through
membranes and into fluids); Circulation (movement within bodyfluids); Assimilation
(changing nutrients into chemically different forms); Excretion (removal of
metabolic wastes)
5. Define homeostasis
ANS Body's maintenance of a stable environment
6. What is a homeostatic mechanism?
ANS the body maintains homeostasis througha number of self-regulating control
systems; examples are regulating body temper-ature and pressure sensitive
receptors to regulate body pressure
,APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
7. Define matter
ANS Anything that takes up space and has mass (weight). It is com-posed of
elements.
8. Define element
ANS fundamental substance composed of chemically identical atoms
9. Define atoms
ANS smallest particle of an element; basic unit of matter
10. What is the structure of an atom?
ANS An atom consists of a nucleus containingprotons and neutrons, with
electrons in
orbit around the nucleus.
11. Atomic nucleus
ANS the nucleus contains protons and neutrons
, APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
12. Proton
ANS subatomic particle that has a positive charge
13. Neutron
ANS subatomic particle that has no charge
14. Electron
ANS subatomic particle that has a negative charge
15. Atomic number
ANS number or protons in nucleus
16. Atomic mass
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
1. What is the difference between anatomy and physiology?
ANS Anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts, whereas physiology is
molecule,
the study of the functionof body parts m
2. What are the levels of organization?
ANS subatomic particles, atom,macromolecule, organelle, cell,
tissue, organ, organ system, organis
3. What are the requirements of life?
,APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
ANS Water, food, oxygen, heat, pressure
4. What are the characteristics of life?
ANS Movement (internal or gross); Respon- siveness (reaction to internal or
external change); Growth (increase in size withoutchange in shape); Reproduction
(new organisms or new cells); Respiration (use ofoxygen; removal of CO2);
Digestion (breakdown of food); Absorption (movement ofsubstances through
membranes and into fluids); Circulation (movement within bodyfluids); Assimilation
(changing nutrients into chemically different forms); Excretion (removal of
metabolic wastes)
5. Define homeostasis
ANS Body's maintenance of a stable environment
6. What is a homeostatic mechanism?
ANS the body maintains homeostasis througha number of self-regulating control
systems; examples are regulating body temper-ature and pressure sensitive
receptors to regulate body pressure
,APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
7. Define matter
ANS Anything that takes up space and has mass (weight). It is com-posed of
elements.
8. Define element
ANS fundamental substance composed of chemically identical atoms
9. Define atoms
ANS smallest particle of an element; basic unit of matter
10. What is the structure of an atom?
ANS An atom consists of a nucleus containingprotons and neutrons, with
electrons in
orbit around the nucleus.
11. Atomic nucleus
ANS the nucleus contains protons and neutrons
, APHY 101 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE 2024 - 2025
12. Proton
ANS subatomic particle that has a positive charge
13. Neutron
ANS subatomic particle that has no charge
14. Electron
ANS subatomic particle that has a negative charge
15. Atomic number
ANS number or protons in nucleus
16. Atomic mass
