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 aCategory: a5. aEvaluating
8. Which aof athe afollowing ais aconsidered athe a“on” aswitch afor athe alight-emitting
areaction aof athe afirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric aoxide
d. ATP
Answer: ac
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a3. aApplying
9. A aphysiological amechanism aor aother atrait athat ais aa aproduct aof aevolution
aand ais aadvantageous ais acalled
a. an aadaptation.
b. natural aselection.
c. adaptive asignificance.
d. evolution.
aAnswer: aa
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a1. aRemembering
10. What ais athe aadaptive asignificance aof alight aemission ain athe afirefly?
a. Female afireflies aemit alight ain asuch aa away athat adistinguishes atheir aspecies.
b. All afireflies aemit alight ato alure aprey.
c. Male afireflies aemit alight ato aattract amates.
d. Male afireflies aemit alight ato aevade
apredators. aAnswer: ac
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a2. aUnderstanding
11. Which aof athe afollowing ais aa asimilarity abetween aan aoctopus aand aa afish?
a. The aevolutionary aadaptation aof aexcellent avision
b. The amechanism aof avision
c. The aprocessing aof avisual asignals abefore areaching athe aoptic anerve
d. The aneuroanatomy aof athe
aeye aAnswer: aa
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a5. aEvaluating
12. Research ain athe afield aof a physiology aemphasizes asynthesis aacross alevels
aof abiological aorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
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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 aCategory: a5. aEvaluating
8. Which aof athe afollowing ais aconsidered athe a“on” aswitch afor athe alight-emitting
areaction aof athe afirefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric aoxide
d. ATP
Answer: ac
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a3. aApplying
9. A aphysiological amechanism aor aother atrait athat ais aa aproduct aof aevolution
aand ais aadvantageous ais acalled
a. an aadaptation.
b. natural aselection.
c. adaptive asignificance.
d. evolution.
aAnswer: aa
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a1. aRemembering
10. What ais athe aadaptive asignificance aof alight aemission ain athe afirefly?
a. Female afireflies aemit alight ain asuch aa away athat adistinguishes atheir aspecies.
b. All afireflies aemit alight ato alure aprey.
c. Male afireflies aemit alight ato aattract amates.
d. Male afireflies aemit alight ato aevade
apredators. aAnswer: ac
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a2. aUnderstanding
11. Which aof athe afollowing ais aa asimilarity abetween aan aoctopus aand aa afish?
a. The aevolutionary aadaptation aof aexcellent avision
b. The amechanism aof avision
c. The aprocessing aof avisual asignals abefore areaching athe aoptic anerve
d. The aneuroanatomy aof athe
aeye aAnswer: aa
Textbook aReference: aMechanism aand aOrigin: aPhysiology’s aTwo aCentral aQuestions
aBloom’s aCategory: a5. aEvaluating
12. Research ain athe afield aof a physiology aemphasizes asynthesis aacross alevels
aof abiological aorganization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
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