TEST BANK
Animal
Physiology
FOURTH EDITION
TEST BANK
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?
,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
, Bloom’s iCategory: i5. iEvaluating
8. Which iof ithe ifollowing iis iconsidered ithe i“on” iswitch ifor ithe ilight-emitting ireaction
iof ithe ifirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric ioxide
d. ATP
Answer: ic
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i3. iApplying
9. A iphysiological imechanism ior iother itrait ithat iis ia iproduct iof ievolution iand
iis iadvantageous iis icalled
a. an iadaptation.
b. natural iselection.
c. adaptive isignificance.
d. evolution.
Answer: ia
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i1. iRemembering
10. What iis ithe iadaptive isignificance iof ilight iemission iin ithe ifirefly?
a. Female ifireflies iemit ilight iin isuch ia iway ithat idistinguishes itheir ispecies.
b. All ifireflies iemit ilight ito ilure iprey.
c. Male ifireflies iemit ilight ito iattract imates.
d. Male ifireflies iemit ilight ito ievade
ipredators. iAnswer: ic
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i2. iUnderstanding
11. Which iof ithe ifollowing iis ia isimilarity ibetween ian ioctopus iand ia ifish?
a. The ievolutionary iadaptation iof iexcellent ivision
b. The imechanism iof ivision
c. The iprocessing iof ivisual isignals ibefore ireaching ithe ioptic inerve
d. The ineuroanatomy iof ithe ieye
iAnswer: ia
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i5. iEvaluating
12. Research iin ithe ifield iof physiology iemphasizes isynthesis iacross ilevels
iof ibiological iorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
Animal
Physiology
FOURTH EDITION
TEST BANK
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?
,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
, Bloom’s iCategory: i5. iEvaluating
8. Which iof ithe ifollowing iis iconsidered ithe i“on” iswitch ifor ithe ilight-emitting ireaction
iof ithe ifirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric ioxide
d. ATP
Answer: ic
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i3. iApplying
9. A iphysiological imechanism ior iother itrait ithat iis ia iproduct iof ievolution iand
iis iadvantageous iis icalled
a. an iadaptation.
b. natural iselection.
c. adaptive isignificance.
d. evolution.
Answer: ia
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i1. iRemembering
10. What iis ithe iadaptive isignificance iof ilight iemission iin ithe ifirefly?
a. Female ifireflies iemit ilight iin isuch ia iway ithat idistinguishes itheir ispecies.
b. All ifireflies iemit ilight ito ilure iprey.
c. Male ifireflies iemit ilight ito iattract imates.
d. Male ifireflies iemit ilight ito ievade
ipredators. iAnswer: ic
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i2. iUnderstanding
11. Which iof ithe ifollowing iis ia isimilarity ibetween ian ioctopus iand ia ifish?
a. The ievolutionary iadaptation iof iexcellent ivision
b. The imechanism iof ivision
c. The iprocessing iof ivisual isignals ibefore ireaching ithe ioptic inerve
d. The ineuroanatomy iof ithe ieye
iAnswer: ia
Textbook iReference: iMechanism iand iOrigin: iPhysiology’s iTwo iCentral iQuestions
iBloom’s iCategory: i5. iEvaluating
12. Research iin ithe ifield iof physiology iemphasizes isynthesis iacross ilevels
iof ibiological iorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
