Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
TEST BANK
Animal Physiology
Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse, Margaret Anderson
4th Edition
Page 1
, Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
Chapter 2: Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
Chapter 3: Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
Chapter 4: Physiological Development and Epigenetics
Chapter 5: Transport of Solutes and Water
Chapter 6: Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
Chapter 7: Energy Metabolism
Chapter 8: Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
Chapter 9: The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
Chapter 10: Thermal Relations
Chapter 10: Thermal Relations
Chapter 11: Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places
Chapter 12: Neurons
Chapter 13: Synapses
Chapter 14: Sensory Processes
Chapter 15: Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
Chapter 16: Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
Chapter 17: Reproduction
Chapter 18: Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation
Chapter 19: Control of Movement: The Motor Bases of Animal Behavior
Chapter 20: Muscle
Chapter 21: Movement and Muscle AT WORK:
Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse
Chapter 22: Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Physiology
Chapter 23: External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
Chapter 24: Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid–Base
Physiology)
Chapter 25: Circulation
Chapter 26: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals
Chapter 27: Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
Chapter 28: Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
Chapter 29: Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
Chapter 30: Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas
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, Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
Test Bank
to accompany
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
Hill • Wyse • Anderson
Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
TEST BANK QUESTIONS
Multiple Choice
1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
b. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
c. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
d. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists
would study its
a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. ecology.
d. cell physiology.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
, Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
a. Evolution
b. Cell physiology
c. Morphology
d. Ecology
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
4. In the study of physiology, the term “_______” refers to the components of living
animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as
they do.
a. feedback
b. regulation
c. natural selection
d. mechanism
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the
firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. ATP
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
7. In the firefly, light is emitted when
a. ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
b. released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
c. the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
d. luciferase is activated by oxygen.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
TEST BANK
Animal Physiology
Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse, Margaret Anderson
4th Edition
Page 1
, Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
Chapter 2: Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
Chapter 3: Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
Chapter 4: Physiological Development and Epigenetics
Chapter 5: Transport of Solutes and Water
Chapter 6: Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
Chapter 7: Energy Metabolism
Chapter 8: Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
Chapter 9: The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
Chapter 10: Thermal Relations
Chapter 10: Thermal Relations
Chapter 11: Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places
Chapter 12: Neurons
Chapter 13: Synapses
Chapter 14: Sensory Processes
Chapter 15: Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
Chapter 16: Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
Chapter 17: Reproduction
Chapter 18: Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation
Chapter 19: Control of Movement: The Motor Bases of Animal Behavior
Chapter 20: Muscle
Chapter 21: Movement and Muscle AT WORK:
Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse
Chapter 22: Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Physiology
Chapter 23: External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
Chapter 24: Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid–Base
Physiology)
Chapter 25: Circulation
Chapter 26: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals
Chapter 27: Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
Chapter 28: Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
Chapter 29: Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
Chapter 30: Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas
Page 2
, Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
Test Bank
to accompany
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
Hill • Wyse • Anderson
Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
TEST BANK QUESTIONS
Multiple Choice
1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
b. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
c. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
d. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists
would study its
a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. ecology.
d. cell physiology.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
, Test Bank - Animal Physiology 4th Edition
a. Evolution
b. Cell physiology
c. Morphology
d. Ecology
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
4. In the study of physiology, the term “_______” refers to the components of living
animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as
they do.
a. feedback
b. regulation
c. natural selection
d. mechanism
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the
firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. ATP
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
7. In the firefly, light is emitted when
a. ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
b. released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
c. the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
d. luciferase is activated by oxygen.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
