Test Bank For The Human Body in Health and Disease 8th
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Rationals
What is anatomy? - ANSWER: Study of structure of an organism and relationships of its parts
What is physiology? - ANSWER: Study of functions of living organisms and their parts
What is a dissection? - ANSWER: Principle technique used to isolate and study structural components
What is pathology? - ANSWER: Scientific study of disease
What is a disease? - ANSWER: Unusual variation of body structure or function that prevent the body
from maintaining internal stability
What is the scientific method? - ANSWER: Logical systematic approach to discovering principles of
nature involving tentative explanations called hypotheses
What is a hypothesis? - ANSWER: Tentative explanation
what is a Experimentation - ANSWER: Experiments designed to be simple to avoid errors
What are experimental controls? - ANSWER: Used to ensure that the test situation itself is not
affecting the result.
What is a test group? - ANSWER: The group receiving the drug.
What is a control group? - ANSWER: The group receiving the substitute.
What is a theory/law? - ANSWER: A hypothesis that has gained a high level of confidence.
What are the levels of organization? - ANSWER: Atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, systems,
organism.
What is organization? - ANSWER: The most important characteristic of body structure.
What is an organism? - ANSWER: A living thing.
What is the chemical level? - ANSWER: Atoms and molecules.
What are cells? - ANSWER: Smallest living units of structure and function in our bodies.
What are tissues? - ANSWER: Organization of many cells that act together to perform a complex cell
function.
What are organs? - ANSWER: Groups of several different kinds of tissues arranged in a way that allows
them to act together as a unit to perform a special function.
What is a system? - ANSWER: Variety of numbers and kinds of organs arranged in ways that allow
them to work together to perform complex functions for the body.
What is the median? - ANSWER: A broken line along the middle.
What is bilateral symmetry? - ANSWER: The left and right sides of the body roughly mirror each other.
Edition, 9780323734165 | All Chapters with Answers and
Rationals
What is anatomy? - ANSWER: Study of structure of an organism and relationships of its parts
What is physiology? - ANSWER: Study of functions of living organisms and their parts
What is a dissection? - ANSWER: Principle technique used to isolate and study structural components
What is pathology? - ANSWER: Scientific study of disease
What is a disease? - ANSWER: Unusual variation of body structure or function that prevent the body
from maintaining internal stability
What is the scientific method? - ANSWER: Logical systematic approach to discovering principles of
nature involving tentative explanations called hypotheses
What is a hypothesis? - ANSWER: Tentative explanation
what is a Experimentation - ANSWER: Experiments designed to be simple to avoid errors
What are experimental controls? - ANSWER: Used to ensure that the test situation itself is not
affecting the result.
What is a test group? - ANSWER: The group receiving the drug.
What is a control group? - ANSWER: The group receiving the substitute.
What is a theory/law? - ANSWER: A hypothesis that has gained a high level of confidence.
What are the levels of organization? - ANSWER: Atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, systems,
organism.
What is organization? - ANSWER: The most important characteristic of body structure.
What is an organism? - ANSWER: A living thing.
What is the chemical level? - ANSWER: Atoms and molecules.
What are cells? - ANSWER: Smallest living units of structure and function in our bodies.
What are tissues? - ANSWER: Organization of many cells that act together to perform a complex cell
function.
What are organs? - ANSWER: Groups of several different kinds of tissues arranged in a way that allows
them to act together as a unit to perform a special function.
What is a system? - ANSWER: Variety of numbers and kinds of organs arranged in ways that allow
them to work together to perform complex functions for the body.
What is the median? - ANSWER: A broken line along the middle.
What is bilateral symmetry? - ANSWER: The left and right sides of the body roughly mirror each other.
