BIOS 251- Chapter 1 Quiz With
Questions and Correct Verified
Answers
Pleural Cavities - Answer-The Lungs are located within
the________________________
Sagittal - Answer-This plane runs lengthwise front to back and divides the body into
right and left sides.
Anatomical - Answer-When a person is standing with the arms at the sides and the
palms turned forward, with the head and feet pointing forward, the individual is said
to be in what position?
caudal - Answer-The medical term that means "pertaining to the tail" is
____________
midsagittal plane - Answer-The imaginary "line" created when the body is divided
into equal right and left halves is called the ______________________.
umbilicus - Answer-The navel, or belly button, is also known as the
___________________.
costochondritis - Answer-The term for inflammation of the cartilage of the ribs is
_____________________.
False - Answer-The neck bones are the sacral vertebrae.
Sternal - Answer-Which term relates to the breastbone?
Carpal - Answer-Which term relates to the wrist?
Histology - Answer-The study of tissue is ________________.
Lumbar - Answer-Which term relates to the lower back?
Femoral - Answer-Which term relates to the the thigh?
Hippocrates - Answer-Who was known as the Father of Medicine?
Hippocratic Oath - Answer-What did Hippocrates establish that is still used in
medicine today?
Natural causes of disease rather than attributing them to acts of the gods and
demons - Answer-What did Hippocrates urge physicians to seek?
, diseases had a supernatural or physical causes and complex structures were built
from simpler parts - Answer-What did Aristotle believe?
Claudius Galen - Answer-did animal dissections because use of cadavers was
banned
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) - Answer-wrote the canon of medicine, used in medical schools
for 500 years.
Andreas Vesalius - Answer-published first atlas of anatomy
William Harvey - Answer-birth of experimental physiology; realized blood flows out of
heart and back to it again
Robert Hooke - Answer-made many improvements to compound microscope (30X);
named cells
Antony van Leeuwenhoek - Answer-invented the simple microscope (200X)
Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann - Answer-concluded that all organisms
were composed of cells; first tenet of cell theory
Charles Darwin - Answer-Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—‟the
book that shook the world"
Evolution - Answer-a change in the genetic composition of a population of organisms
Natural Selection - Answer-A process in which individuals that have certain inherited
traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of
those traits.
Adaptations - Answer-inherited features of anatomy and physiology that evolved in
response to pressures and that enable organism to succeed
Hierarchy of Complexity - Answer-organism, organ systems, organs, tissues, cells,
organelles, molecules, atoms
Reductionism - Answer-large, complex systems can be understood by studying their
simpler components
Holism - Answer-"Emergent properties" of the whole organism cannot be predicted
from the properties of the separate parts
organization, cellular composition, metabolism, responsiveness, movement,
homeostasis, development, reproduction, and evolution - Answer-Characteristics of
Life:
organization - Answer-living things exhibit a higher level of organization than
nonliving things
Questions and Correct Verified
Answers
Pleural Cavities - Answer-The Lungs are located within
the________________________
Sagittal - Answer-This plane runs lengthwise front to back and divides the body into
right and left sides.
Anatomical - Answer-When a person is standing with the arms at the sides and the
palms turned forward, with the head and feet pointing forward, the individual is said
to be in what position?
caudal - Answer-The medical term that means "pertaining to the tail" is
____________
midsagittal plane - Answer-The imaginary "line" created when the body is divided
into equal right and left halves is called the ______________________.
umbilicus - Answer-The navel, or belly button, is also known as the
___________________.
costochondritis - Answer-The term for inflammation of the cartilage of the ribs is
_____________________.
False - Answer-The neck bones are the sacral vertebrae.
Sternal - Answer-Which term relates to the breastbone?
Carpal - Answer-Which term relates to the wrist?
Histology - Answer-The study of tissue is ________________.
Lumbar - Answer-Which term relates to the lower back?
Femoral - Answer-Which term relates to the the thigh?
Hippocrates - Answer-Who was known as the Father of Medicine?
Hippocratic Oath - Answer-What did Hippocrates establish that is still used in
medicine today?
Natural causes of disease rather than attributing them to acts of the gods and
demons - Answer-What did Hippocrates urge physicians to seek?
, diseases had a supernatural or physical causes and complex structures were built
from simpler parts - Answer-What did Aristotle believe?
Claudius Galen - Answer-did animal dissections because use of cadavers was
banned
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) - Answer-wrote the canon of medicine, used in medical schools
for 500 years.
Andreas Vesalius - Answer-published first atlas of anatomy
William Harvey - Answer-birth of experimental physiology; realized blood flows out of
heart and back to it again
Robert Hooke - Answer-made many improvements to compound microscope (30X);
named cells
Antony van Leeuwenhoek - Answer-invented the simple microscope (200X)
Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann - Answer-concluded that all organisms
were composed of cells; first tenet of cell theory
Charles Darwin - Answer-Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—‟the
book that shook the world"
Evolution - Answer-a change in the genetic composition of a population of organisms
Natural Selection - Answer-A process in which individuals that have certain inherited
traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of
those traits.
Adaptations - Answer-inherited features of anatomy and physiology that evolved in
response to pressures and that enable organism to succeed
Hierarchy of Complexity - Answer-organism, organ systems, organs, tissues, cells,
organelles, molecules, atoms
Reductionism - Answer-large, complex systems can be understood by studying their
simpler components
Holism - Answer-"Emergent properties" of the whole organism cannot be predicted
from the properties of the separate parts
organization, cellular composition, metabolism, responsiveness, movement,
homeostasis, development, reproduction, and evolution - Answer-Characteristics of
Life:
organization - Answer-living things exhibit a higher level of organization than
nonliving things
