TEST BANK For Animal Physiology 4th Edition by Richard W. Hill Gordon A. Wyse All chapters complete

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Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
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Hill • Wyse • Anderson
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Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
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TEST BANK QUESTIONS
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1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
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a. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
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b. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
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c. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
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d. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
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Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology
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Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
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2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists
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would study its
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a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. ecology.
d. cell physiology.
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Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
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Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
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3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
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,a. Evolution
b. Cell physiology
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c. Morphology
d. Ecology
Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
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4. In the study of physiology, the term ―
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animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as
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they do.
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a. feedback
b. regulation
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d. mechanism
Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
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5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
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a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP. r r r r r r


b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
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c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
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d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction. r r r r r r


Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
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6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the
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firefly?
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a. Oxygen
b. ATP
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
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7. In the firefly, light is emitted when
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a. ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
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b. released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
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c. the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
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d. luciferase is activated by oxygen. r r r r


Answer: c
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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8. Which of the following is considered the ―on‖ switch for the light-emitting reaction of
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the firefly?
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a. Oxygen
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d. ATP
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 3. Applying
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9. A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution and is
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advantageous is called
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a. an adaptation.
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d. evolution.
Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
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10. What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
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a. Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species.
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b. All fireflies emit light to lure prey.
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c. Male fireflies emit light to attract mates.
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d. Male fireflies emit light to evade predators.
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Answer: c
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
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11. Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
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a. The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision
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b. The mechanism of vision
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c. The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
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d. The neuroanatomy of the eye
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Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
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12. Research in the field of r r r r r physiology emphasizes synthesis across levels of r r r r r


biological organization.
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a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative



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