OpenStax Biology 2e Instructor Answer Guide
Biology 2e
Unit 7: Animal Structure and Function
Chapter 36: Sensory Systems
Visual Connection Questions
1. Which of the following statements about mechanoreceptors is false?
d. Meissner’s corpuscles extend into the lower dermis.
2. Cochlear implants can restore hearing in people who have a nonfunctional cochlear. The
implant consists of a microphone that picks up sound. A speech processor selects sounds in the
range of human speech, and a transmitter converts these sounds to electrical impulses, which
are then sent to the auditory nerve. Which of the following types of hearing loss would not be
restored by a cochlear implant?
B. Hearing loss resulting from an abnormal auditory nerve.
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3. Which of the following statements about the human eye is false?
a. Rods detect color, while cones detect only shades of gray.
Review Questions
4. Where does perception occur?
b. cerebral cortex
5. If a person’s cold receptors no longer convert cold stimuli into sensory signals, that person
has a problem with the process of ________.
d. transduction
6. After somatosensory transduction, the sensory signal travels through the brain as a(n) _____
signal.
a. electrical
7. Many people experience motion sickness while traveling in a car. This sensation results from
contradictory inputs arising from which senses?
d. Vision and Vestibular System
8. _____ are found only in _____ skin, and detect skin deflection.
b. Merkel’s disks: glabrous
9. If you were to burn your epidermis, what receptor type would you most likely burn?
a. free nerve endings
10. Many diabetic patients are warned by their doctors to test their glucose levels by pricking
the sides of their fingers rather than the pads. Pricking the sides avoids stimulating which
receptor?
b. Meissner’s corpuscles
11. Which of the following has the fewest taste receptors?
d. filiform papillae
Biology 2e
Unit 7: Animal Structure and Function
Chapter 36: Sensory Systems
Visual Connection Questions
1. Which of the following statements about mechanoreceptors is false?
d. Meissner’s corpuscles extend into the lower dermis.
2. Cochlear implants can restore hearing in people who have a nonfunctional cochlear. The
implant consists of a microphone that picks up sound. A speech processor selects sounds in the
range of human speech, and a transmitter converts these sounds to electrical impulses, which
are then sent to the auditory nerve. Which of the following types of hearing loss would not be
restored by a cochlear implant?
B. Hearing loss resulting from an abnormal auditory nerve.
, OpenStax Biology 2e Instructor Answer Guide
3. Which of the following statements about the human eye is false?
a. Rods detect color, while cones detect only shades of gray.
Review Questions
4. Where does perception occur?
b. cerebral cortex
5. If a person’s cold receptors no longer convert cold stimuli into sensory signals, that person
has a problem with the process of ________.
d. transduction
6. After somatosensory transduction, the sensory signal travels through the brain as a(n) _____
signal.
a. electrical
7. Many people experience motion sickness while traveling in a car. This sensation results from
contradictory inputs arising from which senses?
d. Vision and Vestibular System
8. _____ are found only in _____ skin, and detect skin deflection.
b. Merkel’s disks: glabrous
9. If you were to burn your epidermis, what receptor type would you most likely burn?
a. free nerve endings
10. Many diabetic patients are warned by their doctors to test their glucose levels by pricking
the sides of their fingers rather than the pads. Pricking the sides avoids stimulating which
receptor?
b. Meissner’s corpuscles
11. Which of the following has the fewest taste receptors?
d. filiform papillae
