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The Nervous System Electricity
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
05/12/2010

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26.1. Benjamin Franklin’s discovery that lightning, an awesome manifestation of weather, was electric led to

A) the idea that electricity is related to health and well-being
B) the revolutionary war
C) the idea that one should get struck with lightning once in a lifetime
D) the idea that one should always carry keys in one’s pocket
E) a boom in the kite business
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the idea that electricity is related to health and well-being
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26.2. Cell bodies and dendrites make up the_______________ and axons make up the _____________ (pictured on slide).

A) cerebrum, cerebellum
B) cerebellum, cerebrum
C) hind brain, mid brain
D) gray matter, white matter
E) white matter, gray matter
Definition
gray matter, white matter
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26.3. Luigi Galvani saw that he could cause a frog’s leg to twitch by touching it with

A) acetylcholine
B) a strong base
C) a strong acid
D) two similar metals
E) two different metals
Definition
two different metals
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26.4. ____________ concluded that under normal conditions, the electric fluid is generated in the brain (after being extracted from the blood), travels down the nerves, and stimulates the muscles.

A) Alessandro Volta
B) John Aldini
C) Luigi Galvani
D) Luigi Golgi
E) Andrew Ure
Definition
Luigi Galvani
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26.5. ____________ believed that there was no such thing as “animal electricity” and all the electricity was generated by two different metals in a salt solution.

A) Alessandro Volta
B) John Aldini
C) Luigi Galvani
D) Luigi Golgi
E) Andrew Ure
Definition
Alessandro Volta
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26.6. John Aldini tested the effect of electricity in causing muscles to twitch on:

A) frogs
B) oxen
C) live humans
D) dead bodies of criminals
E) all of the above
Definition
all of the above
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26.7. Knowing about John Aldini’s experiments, Mary Shelley wrote the book, __________.

A) Dracula
B) Thunder and Lightning
C) All in a Day’s Work
D) The Body Snatchers
E ) Frankenstein
Definition
Frankenstein
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26.8. When Eduard Hitzig placed stimulating electrodes that gave weak electric shocks into the brain of wounded soldiers he found that:

A) the felt hungry
B) they sneezed
C) their eyes moved
D) they laughed
E) they cried
Definition
their eyes moved
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26.9. By noticing the pattern of his wife’s epileptic seizures, John Hughlings Jackson guessed that

A) the brain must be organized into different regions that control the motor activities
B) the brain must act as a unified whole
C) the corpus collosum must connect the right brain to the left brain
D) the blood must flow clockwise in the brain
E) none of the above
Definition
the brain must be organized into different regions that control the motor activities
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26.10. Wilder Penfield serendipitously found that ___________when he electrically stimulated various regions of the brain and people could hear music.

A) music is the universal language
B) memories are stored as music
C) memory is based on the musical scale
D) the brain was the material basis of memory
E) none of the above
Definition
the brain was the material basis of memory
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26.11. Which of the following technologies replace or enhance the normal neurological functions?

A) Boston Digital Arm.
B) Chip produced by Cyberkinetics that allow one to use a computer using thoughts alone.
C) Cochlear Implant produced by Boston Scientific.
D) Orgasmatron designed by Stuart Meloy.
E) all of the above.
Definition
all of the above.
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26.12. Stanley Milgram found that the majority of people in his study would deliver 450 volt shocks to students as a punishment for not learning because:

A) the subjects would not question authority.
B) the subjects believed the students deserved the shocks
C) the subjects believed that the shocks would help the students learn
D) they believed the shocks were fake
E) the subjects knew they were shocking an actor
Definition
the subjects would not question authority.
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26.13. According to Richard Feynman, the greatest value of science is the freedom to__________.

A) give shocks
B) doubt
C) tell people what to do
D) march
E) to practice your own religion
Definition
doubt
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26.14. The nervous system is entirely derived from the___________.

A) pachyderm
B) neuroniderm
C) mesoderm
D) endoderm.
E) ectoderm
Definition
ectoderm
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