Test Bank Animal Physiology 5th Edition (LATEST) By Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse & Margaret
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Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
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. Correct
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. Correct 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 Correct 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 Correct Answer:d
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions Bloom’s Category:
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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. Correct Answer:a
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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 Correct Answer:c
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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. Correct Answer:c
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 the
firefly?
a. Oxygen
b. Luciferase
c. Nitric oxide
d. ATP
Correct Answer:c
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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. Correct Answer:a
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