TEST BANK
ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY 4TH EDITION
Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse & Margaret Anderson
, Test Bank
to accompany
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
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?
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,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
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, Bloom’s sCategory: s5. sEvaluating
8. Which sof sthe sfollowing sis sconsidered sthe s“on” sswitch sfor sthe slight-emitting
sreaction sof sthe sfirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric soxide
d. ATP
Answer: sc
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s3. sApplying
9. A sphysiological smechanism sor sother strait sthat sis sa sproduct sof sevolution
sand sis sadvantageous sis scalled
a. an sadaptation.
b. natural sselection.
c. adaptive ssignificance.
d. evolution.
sAnswer: sa
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s1. sRemembering
10. What sis sthe sadaptive ssignificance sof slight semission sin sthe sfirefly?
a. Female sfireflies semit slight sin ssuch sa sway sthat sdistinguishes stheir sspecies.
b. All sfireflies semit slight sto slure sprey.
c. Male sfireflies semit slight sto sattract smates.
d. Male sfireflies semit slight sto sevade
spredators. sAnswer: sc
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s2. sUnderstanding
11. Which sof sthe sfollowing sis sa ssimilarity sbetween san soctopus sand sa sfish?
a. The sevolutionary sadaptation sof sexcellent svision
b. The smechanism sof svision
c. The sprocessing sof svisual ssignals sbefore sreaching sthe soptic snerve
d. The sneuroanatomy sof sthe
seye sAnswer: sa
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s5. sEvaluating
12. Research sin sthe sfield sof s physiology semphasizes ssynthesis sacross slevels
sof sbiological sorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
© 2016 Sinauer Associates, Inc.
ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY 4TH EDITION
Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse & Margaret Anderson
, Test Bank
to accompany
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
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?
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,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
© 2016 Sinauer Associates, Inc.
, Bloom’s sCategory: s5. sEvaluating
8. Which sof sthe sfollowing sis sconsidered sthe s“on” sswitch sfor sthe slight-emitting
sreaction sof sthe sfirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric soxide
d. ATP
Answer: sc
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s3. sApplying
9. A sphysiological smechanism sor sother strait sthat sis sa sproduct sof sevolution
sand sis sadvantageous sis scalled
a. an sadaptation.
b. natural sselection.
c. adaptive ssignificance.
d. evolution.
sAnswer: sa
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s1. sRemembering
10. What sis sthe sadaptive ssignificance sof slight semission sin sthe sfirefly?
a. Female sfireflies semit slight sin ssuch sa sway sthat sdistinguishes stheir sspecies.
b. All sfireflies semit slight sto slure sprey.
c. Male sfireflies semit slight sto sattract smates.
d. Male sfireflies semit slight sto sevade
spredators. sAnswer: sc
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s2. sUnderstanding
11. Which sof sthe sfollowing sis sa ssimilarity sbetween san soctopus sand sa sfish?
a. The sevolutionary sadaptation sof sexcellent svision
b. The smechanism sof svision
c. The sprocessing sof svisual ssignals sbefore sreaching sthe soptic snerve
d. The sneuroanatomy sof sthe
seye sAnswer: sa
Textbook sReference: sMechanism sand sOrigin: sPhysiology’s sTwo sCentral sQuestions
sBloom’s sCategory: s5. sEvaluating
12. Research sin sthe sfield sof s physiology semphasizes ssynthesis sacross slevels
sof sbiological sorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
© 2016 Sinauer Associates, Inc.
