Test Bank to Accompany
Animal Physiology, 5th Edition
By Hill • Wyse • Anderson
(All Chapters, Latest Edition, With Verified Answers)
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. Ecoloy
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. mechanim
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 Category: 5. Evaluating
8. Which of the following is considered the “on” switch for the light-emitting
reaction of the firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric oxide
d. ATP
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 3. Applying
9. A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution
and is advantageous is called
a. an adaptation.
b. natural selection.
c. adaptive significance.
d. evolution
. Answer:
a
, Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
10. What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
a. Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species.
b. All fireflies emit light to lure prey.
c. Male fireflies emit light to attract mates.
d. Male fireflies emit light to evade
predators. Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
11. Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
a. The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision
b. The mechanism of vision
c. The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
d. The neuroanatomy of the
eye Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
12. Research in the field of physiology emphasizes synthesis across
levels of biological organization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: This Book’s Approach to
Physiology Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
13. Which statement regarding animals is true?
a. There is no distinction between an animal and its environment.
b. Once adults, animals are structurally static.
c. All animals require energy to maintain their organization.
d. Body size is significant in the lives of only
small animals. Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Animals
Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
14. Most cells of an animal
a. are exposed to the external environment.
b. are exposed to the internal environment.
c. fluctuate between exposure to the external environment and the internal environment.
d. turn over while being exposed to the
internal environment. Answer: b
Textbook Reference: Animals
Bloom’s Category: 2.
Understanding
Animal Physiology, 5th Edition
By Hill • Wyse • Anderson
(All Chapters, Latest Edition, With Verified Answers)
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. Ecoloy
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. mechanim
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 Category: 5. Evaluating
8. Which of the following is considered the “on” switch for the light-emitting
reaction of the firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric oxide
d. ATP
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 3. Applying
9. A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution
and is advantageous is called
a. an adaptation.
b. natural selection.
c. adaptive significance.
d. evolution
. Answer:
a
, Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
10. What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
a. Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species.
b. All fireflies emit light to lure prey.
c. Male fireflies emit light to attract mates.
d. Male fireflies emit light to evade
predators. Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
11. Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
a. The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision
b. The mechanism of vision
c. The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
d. The neuroanatomy of the
eye Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central
Questions Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
12. Research in the field of physiology emphasizes synthesis across
levels of biological organization.
a. evolutionary
b. comparative
c. environmental
d. integrative
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: This Book’s Approach to
Physiology Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
13. Which statement regarding animals is true?
a. There is no distinction between an animal and its environment.
b. Once adults, animals are structurally static.
c. All animals require energy to maintain their organization.
d. Body size is significant in the lives of only
small animals. Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Animals
Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
14. Most cells of an animal
a. are exposed to the external environment.
b. are exposed to the internal environment.
c. fluctuate between exposure to the external environment and the internal environment.
d. turn over while being exposed to the
internal environment. Answer: b
Textbook Reference: Animals
Bloom’s Category: 2.
Understanding
