Test Questions and Correct Answers
2025-2026 Edition.
What is the study of the structures in the body? - Answer Anatomy
What is the study of the functions of the structures in the body? - Answer Physiology
What are the levels of hierarchy organization from most complex to least complex? - Answer
Organism, Organ System, Organ, Tissue, Cellular, Chemical
A group of specialized cells similar in function and origin is? - Answer Tissues
A group of tissues is? - Answer An organ
What is the study of tissues? - Answer Histology
What is the microscopic study of cells? - Answer Cytology
What is the sum of all chemical reactions in the body? - Answer Metabolism (controlled by
thyroid)
External body covering and protecting deeper tissues is what body system? - Answer
Integumentary
What body system protects and supports body organs? - Answer Skeletal
What body system controls locomotion, facial expression, and maintains posture? - Answer
Muscular
What body system has fast acting control and responds to internal and external changes by
activating muscles and glands? - Answer Nervous
, What body system is involved with the transportation of blood and carries: O2, CO2, nutrients,
wastes? - Answer Cardiovascular
What body system houses white blood cells and picks up leaked fluids then puts them back into
the bloodstream? - Answer Lymphatic/ Immunity
What body system keeps blood supplied with O2 and removes CO2 through the walls of air sacs
in the lungs? - Answer Respiratory
What body system breaks down food into absorbable units that enter blood for distribution to
body cells? - Answer Digestive
What body system eliminates wastes form the body, regulates water, electrolytes, and acid base
balance? - Answer Urinary
What body system produces sperm, hormones, and offspring? - Answer Male Reproductive
What body system produces eggs, sex hormones, is the site for fertilization, and development of
the fetus? - Answer Female Reproductive
What system are the spleen, tonsils, and thymus in? - Answer Lymphatic/ Immunity
What distributes oxygen and nutrients and carries away wastes? - Answer Cardiovascular
What system makes and matures most blood cells? - Answer Skeletal
What four systems protect against diseases? - Answer Lymphatic/ Immunity, Skeletal,
Cardiovascular, Integumentary
What system returns proteins and plasma to the blood stream? - Answer Lymphatic/
Immunity
What system eliminates liquid wastes and regulates fluid balance? - Answer Urinary