TEST: HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

• A body system consists of:

  a group of organs which perform a common function
• Most absorption of food occurs in the:

  small intestine
• small intestine

  kidney
• Rh blood factor is determined by:

  the presence or absence of a particular erythrocyte protein
• What is the function of the lymph nodes?

  filter and purify interstitial liquid returning to the blood
• The process of chromosome reduction occurs during:


  meiosis
• The liver and pancreas are connected to the:

  small intestine
• How do nerve signals pass through a synapse?


  by chemical transmitters, by acetylcholine
• The circulatory system removes waste products from:

  cells
• The retinal cells responsible for night vision are:

  rods
• Through which part of the ear is pressure equalized when ascending or descending through the atmosphere?

  Eustachian tube
• Diastole is:

  when the ventricles relax and fill with blood
• ___ filtration of the blood is called dialysis.

  artificial
• between the left ventricle and the aorta

  aortic
• between the left atrium and the left ventricle

  mitral
• between the right atrium and the right ventricle

  tricuspid
• between the right ventricle and the lungs

  pulmonary
• The tissue which diverts food from the trachea upon swallowing is the ___.

  epiglottis
• Blood flowing to the lungs from the heart flows through the ___.

  pulmonary arteries
• The long bone in the upper leg is the 

  femur
• Which unit of the brain is responsible for the coordination of movement?

  the cerebellum
• The connective tissue that attaches bone to bone is called ___ and muscle to bone is called ___.

  ligamentstendons
• The transparent anterior sclera is called the 

  cornea
• The loss of muscle function due to muscle disease or disease in the nervous system may cause _____.

  paralysis
• Inadequate thyroid hormone is known as

  hypothyroidism
• Hyperthyroidism may cause the victim to 

  have bulging eyes
• Aspherical distortion of light through the cornea is called 

  astigmatism
• The absorption of oxygen into individual cells is part of cellular respiration.


  true
• The lungs contain elastic muscle tissue to permit inhalation.

  false
• disease protection

  leukocytes
• carries CO2

  erythrocytes
• devoid of nucleus

  erythrocytes
• phagocytosis

  leukocytes
• ilium 

  pelvic girdle
• arms

  pectoral girdle
• scapulae

  pectoral girdle
• sacrum

  pelvic girdle
• ischium

  pelvic girdle
• polarization 

  impulse
• branching "tree-like" structure 

  dendrite