Test Bank for Neuroscience 6th Edition by Dale Purves ISBN-9781605353807|All Chapters 1-34 Fully Covered|COMPLETE GUIDE A+.

, Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White

Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System

Multiple Choice

1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. Regulatory DNA
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

2. Genomics is the analysis of
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.
Answer: e
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to make
observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Charles Sherrington.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.

,e. Camillo @ayGolgi @ayand @aySantiago @ayRamón @ayy
@ayCajal. @ayAnswer: @ayd

Textbook @ayReference: @ayCellular @ayComponents @ayof @aythe @ayNervous
@aySystem @ayBloom’s @ayLevel: @ay1. @ayRemembering




5. Which @ayfunction @ayis @aya @aycharacteristic @ayprimarily @ayof @ayneurons @ayonly, @ayand @aynot @ayglia?
a. Transmits @ayaction @aypotentials
b. Supports @ayelectrical @aysignals
c. Repairs @aythe @aynervous @aysystem
d. Prevents @ayregeneration @ayof @aythe @aynervous @aysystem
e. Produces
@aymyelin @ayAnswer:

@aya

Textbook @ayReference: @ayCellular @ayComponents @ayof @aythe @ayNervous
@aySystem @ayBloom’s @ayLevel: @ay1. @ayRemembering




6. In @aywhich @aypart @ayof @aya @ayneuron @aywould @aymost @ayof @aythe @ayendoplasmic @ayreticulum @aybe
@ayconcentrated?

a. Postsynaptic @ayterminal
b. Presynaptic @ayterminal
c. Axon
d. Cell @aybody
e. Dendrite
@ayAnswer:

@ayd

Textbook @ayReference: @ayCellular @ayComponents @ayof @aythe @ayNervous
@aySystem @ayBloom’s @ayLevel: @ay1. @ayRemembering




7. Which @ayintracellular @aycomponent @ayfacilitates @aythe @ayprocesses @ayof @ayendocytosis @ayand
@ayexocytosis @ayunderlying @aysynaptic @aycommunication?

a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic @ayreticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi @ayapparatus
e. Nucleus
@ayAnswer:

@ayc

Textbook @ayReference: @ayCellular @ayComponents @ayof @aythe @ayNervous
@aySystem @ayBloom’s @ayLevel: @ay2. @ayUnderstanding




8. Most @ayneurons @ayhave
a. one @ayaxon @ayhillock @ay(initial @aysegment).
b. multiple @ayaxon @ayhillocks @ay(initial @aysegments).
c. one @aydendrite.
d. one @ayaxon @ayhillock @ay(initial @aysegment) @ayand @ayone @aydendrite.
e. multiple @ayaxon @ayhillocks @ay(initial @aysegments) @ayand @ayone
@aydendrite. @ayAnswer: @aya

Textbook @ayReference: @ayNeurons

, @ayBloom’s @ayLevel: @ay1.
@ayRemembering