RIO SALADO BIO 201 ANATOMY AND
PHYSIOLOGY FINAL PRACTICE PAPER 2026
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
◉ What is the longest and strongest bone of the face? Answer:
Mandible
◉ The temporal bone riddled with sinuses Answer: Mastoid Process
◉ What is a Colle's Fracture? Answer: A break in the distal end of the
radius
◉ What is the most common site for fractures in the Humerus?
Answer: surgical neck
◉ Sagittal Suture Answer: Right and Left Parietal
◉ Lambdoid Suture Answer: Occipital and Parietal Bone
◉ Squamosal Suture Answer: temporal and parietal Bone
◉ Coronal Suture Answer: Parietal and Frontal Bone
,◉ Cervical Vertebrae Answer:
◉ Thoracic Vertebrae Answer:
◉ Lumbar Vertebrae Answer:
◉ What is the only vertebrae that does not have a body? Answer:
atlas
◉ Where is the pituitary gland housed? Answer: sella turcica of the
sphenoid
◉ Where are the Paranasal sinuses found? Answer: maxillae
◉ Where is the location of the center of gravity of the body? Answer:
it is 1 cm posterior to the sacral promontory
◉ Thoracic vertebrae T2 through T8 differ from the others in that?
Answer: they have superior and inferior demifacets
◉ The antebrachium is composed of which two bones? Answer: the
radius and the ulna
, ◉ The short bone that attaches to the third metacarpal is the
Answer: capitate
◉ The bone in direct contact with the first metatarsal (big toe) is the
Answer: medial cuneiform
◉ Why are the paranasal sinuses at greater risk for infection?
Answer: their location adjacent to the middle ear cavity often
creates a high risk for infection
◉ The tibia is in contact with which tarsus? Answer: talus
◉ Ostealgia Answer: pain in the bone
◉ Carpal bones Answer: trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate,
scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform
◉ Tarsal bones Answer: calcaneus, talus, navicular, medial
cuneiform, Intermediate cuneiform, lateral cuneiform, cuboid
◉ Chondromalacia patellae Answer: softening of the posterior
patella surface
PHYSIOLOGY FINAL PRACTICE PAPER 2026
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
◉ What is the longest and strongest bone of the face? Answer:
Mandible
◉ The temporal bone riddled with sinuses Answer: Mastoid Process
◉ What is a Colle's Fracture? Answer: A break in the distal end of the
radius
◉ What is the most common site for fractures in the Humerus?
Answer: surgical neck
◉ Sagittal Suture Answer: Right and Left Parietal
◉ Lambdoid Suture Answer: Occipital and Parietal Bone
◉ Squamosal Suture Answer: temporal and parietal Bone
◉ Coronal Suture Answer: Parietal and Frontal Bone
,◉ Cervical Vertebrae Answer:
◉ Thoracic Vertebrae Answer:
◉ Lumbar Vertebrae Answer:
◉ What is the only vertebrae that does not have a body? Answer:
atlas
◉ Where is the pituitary gland housed? Answer: sella turcica of the
sphenoid
◉ Where are the Paranasal sinuses found? Answer: maxillae
◉ Where is the location of the center of gravity of the body? Answer:
it is 1 cm posterior to the sacral promontory
◉ Thoracic vertebrae T2 through T8 differ from the others in that?
Answer: they have superior and inferior demifacets
◉ The antebrachium is composed of which two bones? Answer: the
radius and the ulna
, ◉ The short bone that attaches to the third metacarpal is the
Answer: capitate
◉ The bone in direct contact with the first metatarsal (big toe) is the
Answer: medial cuneiform
◉ Why are the paranasal sinuses at greater risk for infection?
Answer: their location adjacent to the middle ear cavity often
creates a high risk for infection
◉ The tibia is in contact with which tarsus? Answer: talus
◉ Ostealgia Answer: pain in the bone
◉ Carpal bones Answer: trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate,
scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform
◉ Tarsal bones Answer: calcaneus, talus, navicular, medial
cuneiform, Intermediate cuneiform, lateral cuneiform, cuboid
◉ Chondromalacia patellae Answer: softening of the posterior
patella surface
