HESI Retake Anatomy and Physiology
Exam Practice Questions and Answers
The most abundant tissue - Answer✔️✔️-connective
Cellular contact is important for - Answer✔️✔️-wound healing
Where does fertilization occur - Answer✔️✔️-fallopian tubes
What is the functional unit of the kidney - Answer✔️✔️-nephron
In order for inhalation to occur, what must happen? - Answer✔️✔️-
contraction of the diaphragm, which enlarges chest cavity and draws in air
Neutrophils are - Answer✔️✔️-A white blood cell that phagocytize
microorganisms
Lympocytes are - Answer✔️✔️-WBC that are also one of the body's main
types of immune cells, made in the bone marrow and found in the blood
and lymph tissue, and defend the body against foreign substances
Monocytes are - Answer✔️✔️-macrophages
All actions of the nervous system depend on the transmission of nerve
impulses over which of the following - Answer✔️✔️-neurons
What are the glands of the skin that produce a thin, watery secretion -
Answer✔️✔️-eccrine glands
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Which tissues serves as the framework by providing support and structure
for organs - Answer✔️✔️-connective tissue
What are the two functions of the male and female sex organs -
Answer✔️✔️-production of gametes and production of hormones
Blood in the pulmonary veins returns to the - Answer✔️✔️-left atrium
Diploid has how many chromosomes - Answer✔️✔️-46
Haploid has how many chromosomes - Answer✔️✔️-23
Mitosis produces - Answer✔️✔️-2 diploid cells
Meiosis produces - Answer✔️✔️-4 haploid cells
Skeletal system function - Answer✔️✔️-protection, movement, mineral
storage, and production of blood
Efferent neurons are - Answer✔️✔️-motor neurons that carry neural
impulses away from the CNS and toward muscles to cause movement
Afferent neurons are - Answer✔️✔️-sensory neurons that carry nerve
impulses from sensory stimuli toward the CNS and brain
Gametes are - Answer✔️✔️-sex cells
What do capillaries do - Answer✔️✔️-carry blood away from the body in
order to exchange nutrients, oxygen, and waste
What is the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and blood through
the alveoli called - Answer✔️✔️-external respiration
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The exchange of gases between the blood and tissue cells is - Answer✔️✔️-
internal respiration
Most of carbon dioxide in the blood does which of the following -
Answer✔️✔️-converts to bicarbonate ions by carbonic anhydrase within
RBC
Ovum can be described as - Answer✔️✔️-a mature female reproductive cell
that can divide to give rise to an embryo usually only after fertilization by
male cell
Ligaments are - Answer✔️✔️-bone to bone
Tendons are - Answer✔️✔️-bone to muscle
Osteocytes are - Answer✔️✔️-bone forming cells
4 steps of bone ossification - Answer✔️✔️-hematoma formation, callus
formation, ossification, bone remodeling
Gallbladder is part of - Answer✔️✔️-digestive system
Vastus lateralis - Answer✔️✔️-extends and stabilizes the knee
Muscle contraction that moves food through digestive tract - Answer✔️✔️-
peristalsis
Schwann cells are located in - Answer✔️✔️-PNS
How does nervous system work with muscular system - Answer✔️✔️-tells
muscles how to respond to environment
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