Which of the following senses is NOT correctly matched with the type of sensory receptors involved?

A) Vision: photoreceptors

B) Smell: chemoreceptors

C) Touch: mechanoreceptors

D) Hearing: mechanoreceptors

E) Taste: photoreceptors

Which of the following trends of evolution in animals, from the ancestral to the more recently evolved species, is (are) not in a correct order?

A) Cellular level organization-> Tissue level organization-> Organ level organization

B) Asymmetry-> Radial symmmetry-> Bilateral symmetry

C) True Coelom-> Two primary tissue layers (endoderm and ectoderm)

D) Cephalization-> Radial symmetry

E) Both C and D are not in a correct order

Which of the following statements is not true?

A) Any longitudianal cut through an animal with radial symmetry produces a mirror image

B) The three types of primary tissue layers in animal embryos are ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm

C) Humans and other chordates (animals with vertebrates) have no segmentation

D) Cephalization is the development of an anterior end (head)

E) Protists are considered ancestral to all animals

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the complete digestive system?

A) Mechanical processing and motility that break up, mix, and propel food material

B) Secretion that releases digestive enzymes into the gastrointestinal tract

C) Digestion that breakdown food into nutrient molecules small enough to be absorbed

D) Absorption of digested nutrients and water into body fluids

E) One opening for both intake of food and expulsion of undigested residues

Osmotic regulation; Urea

and

Acid-base regulation; Urea

The nephron is the basic functional unit of the mammalian kidney. Which of the following structures of the nephron is NOT matched correctly to its function?

A) Glomerulus: filtration of blood

B) Proximal convoluted tubule: reabsorption of water and solute back to blood

C) Loop of Henle: excretion of urine from body

D) Distal convoluted tubule: active transport of hydrogen ions and other solutes from blood into tubule

E) Collecting duct: reabsorption of water from urine

Digestion of food requires the help of many hydrolytic enzymes that break down polymers in the food to monomers that can be absorbed. Which of the following hydrolic enzymes is (are) correctly matched with its (their) function?

A) Lipases: hydrolyze fats (lipids)

B) Amylase: hydrolyzes starch

C) Nucleases: hydrolyze nucleic acids

D) Pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin: hydrolyze proteins

E) All of the above are correctly matched

Which of the following statements about the circulatory system of a mammal is NOT true?

A) A mammalian heart has three chambers

B) The oxygenated blood from the lungs flows into the left atrium and then into the left ventricle

C) The oxygen-poor blood returns from circulating through the body into the right atrium and then into the right ventricle

D) The oxygen-poor blood flows from the right ventricle to the lungs

E) The mammalian heart has a pulmonary circuit, which circulates blood between the heart and the lungs, and a systemic circuit, which circulates blood between the heart and the rest of the body

The circulatory system evolved from an open to a closed system. In vertebrates, it evolved from a single-circuit to a two-circuit system. Which of the following organisms is NOT matched correctly with the kind of circulatory system it has?

A) A grasshopper (arthropod): open circulatory system

B) An earthworm: closed circulatory system with a single-circuit system of blood flow

C) A fish: closed circulatory system with a two-cicuit system of blood flow

D) A bird: closed circulatory system with a two-cicuit system of blood flow

E) A mammal: closed circulatory system with a two-circuit system of blood flow

The immune system helps us defend against invasion by diease-causing microbes such as bacteria and viruses. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the immune system?

A) Skin provides a good physical barrier to prevent invasion

B) Our tear and saliva have bacteria-killing enzymes such as lysozomes

C) Acute inflammation is not an immune response

D) Macrophages are immune cells that ingest the invading microbes

E) B cells produce antibodies and respond to a specific antigen

Which of the following characteristics is not that of animals?

A) Aerobic heterotrophs

B) Most are motile

C) Most are multicellular but many are single-celled

D) Cells have no cell wall

E) All are eukaryotes

Which of the following hormoes is NOT true?

A) Hormones produced in one cell type cause the activities of target cells to change in various ways

B) Hormones are a part of teh endocrine system

C) Hormones can be either steriod type or peptide (protein) type

D) Hormones have a pattern of action that consists of reception, transduction, and induction

E) Hormones are nonspecific. That is, one hormone can perform many different functions

Which of the following tissue type is not correctly matched to an example?

A) Epithelial-lining of respiratory tract

B) Connective-absorptive surface within intestine

C) Muscular-heart wall

D)Nervous-spinal cord

E) Connective-ligament and cartilage

Which of the following endocrine glands is NOT appropriately matched with the hormone it produces?

A) Hypothalamus: ADH

B) Posterior pituitary: oxytocin

C) Adrenal gland: adrenaline

D) Gonads (testes): progesterone

E) Gonads (ovaries): estrogen

Anterior pituitary; Egg maturation and ovulation; Sperm maturation and release

OR

Anterior pituitary; Sperm maturation and release; Egg maturation and ovulation

Which of the following types of neurons is NOT appropriately matched with its function?

A) Sensory neuron: detect and relay information to the brain

B) Motor neuron: deliver commands from other neurons to muscle or glands

C) Interneuron: interact to integrate and coordinate reflex arcs

D) Sensory neuron: detect and relay information to the spinal cord

E) Interneuron: deliver commands from other neurons to muscle or glands

Which of the following components of the mammalian digestive system is NOT matched to its function?

A) Stomach: mixing and storage of food and digestion of proteins

B) Small intestine: degestion and absorption of most nutrients

C) Large intestine: absorption of water and minerals

D) Liver: produce saliva for digestion and lubrication

E) Pancreas: secret hydrolytic enzymes to aid in digestion of food

Which of the following statements about the lymphatic system is NOT true?

A) Lymph nodes are a part of the lymphatic system

B) Lymphatic system works closely with the respiratory system

C) Spleen is a part of the lymphatic system

E) Lymphatic system protects the body from diseases through imminuty

Fairly unorganized in stucture, contractions are involuntary and slow

French people (care-free)

Rigid organization, voluntary contractions and usually quite fast

German (rigid)