Biom 3090: Autonomic Pharmacology Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

BIOM 3090: AUTONOMIC PHARMACOLOGY UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. What are the two main divisions of the nervous system?

Answer:
Central Nervous System (CNS)
&
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

Question:
2. What are the two main divisions of the peripheral nervous
system (PNS)?

Answer:
Efferent & Afferent

Question:
3. What are the two main divisions of the efferent division of
the PNS?

Answer:
Autonomic & Somatic

Question:
4. What are the three main divisions of the autonomic
nervous system?

Answer:
Sympathetic
Parasympathetic
Enteric

Question:
5. T/F: "Most organs receive innervation from either the
PSNS or the SNS."

Answer:
False, most organs receive innervation from both the PSNS and the SNS

Question:
6. T/F: "Most organs receive innervation from both the PSNS
and the SNS."

Answer:
True

, Question:
7. T/F: "There are central and peripheral components of the
autonomic nervous system."

Answer:
True

Question:
8. T/F: "All components of the autonomic nervous system
are peripheral (not central)."

Answer:
False, there are central and peripheral components of the autonomic nervous
system

Question:
9. What are ganglia?

Answer:
aggregations of cell bodies of post-ganglionic neurons

Question:
10. Pre-ganglionic fibers travel from _____ to _____?

Answer:
brain & spinal cord --> ganglia

Question:
11. Post-ganglionic fibers travel from _____ to _____?

Answer:
axons from ganglia --> effector organs

Question:
12. What does the autonomic nervous system innervate/
regulate?

Answer:
- heart
- blood vessels
- glands
- visceral organs