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| What are the two parts to the human skeleton? |
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| The axial skeleton consists of what parts of the human skeleton? |
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| Skull, vertebral column, sternum and rib cage |
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| What parts of the human skeleton are in the appendicular skeleton? |
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| Pectoral girdle (shoulders), pelvic girdle (pelvis), and the limbs |
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| What heals bone fractures? |
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| Fibroblasts and osteoblasts |
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| Which of the bone functions provides a rigid framwork that supports soft tissues? |
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| Which of the following is not part of the axial skeleton? |
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| The human body is made up of approximately how many bones? |
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| A fluid-filled sac that cushions certain joints and reduces friction between tendons and ligaments is called a |
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| Who most commonly suffers from osteoporosis? |
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| How many parts is the human skeleton divided into? |
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| Inflammation of the synovial membrane which results in accumulation of synovial fluid in the joint and constant irritation that can destroy the cartilage. |
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| Which are the smallest facial bones? |
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| Which of the following happens during prophase? |
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| Changes occur in the nucleus as well as the cytoplasm |
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| Which of the following is not a bone function? |
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| Bone fractures are healed by? |
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| Fibroblasts and osteoblasts |
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| The vertical column is made up of how many sections? |
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| The skeleton is a framework of bone and cartilage that performs which of the following functions? |
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| Bone forming cells are called |
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| Which of the following is not a classification of vertebrae? |
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| Which of the following is not a facial bone? |
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| In sequence, organize the vertebral column from top to bottom |
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| Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, coccyx |
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| Which of the following is not true about bones |
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| Which of the following is not a function of the skeleton |
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| The phalanges are located in the |
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| The purpose of osteoblasts is to |
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| Deposit new bone in response to stress |
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| Bone growth is stimulated by growth hormone from the |
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| What is the bone that forms the forehead and the front of the brain case called? |
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| Which of the following is not one of the functions of the skeleton? |
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| Preventing change in body temperature |
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| What hormone plays a role in bone remodeling in women? |
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| Where do blood cells form? |
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| Movement of a body part away from the body midline is an example of |
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| A general term referring to joint inflammation |
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| The axial skeleton includes all of the following except |
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| Which is not a kind of muscle |
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| The skeletal muscle is also called |
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| Which one of these things are not true about common traits each muscle has |
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| Muscles are not extensible |
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| Muscular dystrophy happens when |
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| To many calcium ions enter the cell |
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| Skeletal muscle is also called |
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| Striated (striped) muscle |
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| What are calcium ions stored in? |
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| What is the tip of a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle called? |
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| What is the difference between fast-twitch muscle cells and slow-twitch muscle cells? |
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| Slow-twitch muscle cells are designed for endurance and fast-twitch muscle cells are designed for rapid, powerful response |
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| The body has more than ____ skeletal muscles. |
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| A motor neuron and all the muscle cells it stimulates are called a |
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| How many kinds of muscle are there? |
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| Which is true of muscles? |
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| What causes Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? |
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| A defective gene for production of the protein dystrophin |
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| How many high school students said they have used anabolic steroids to reach their athletic goals? |
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| The contractile unit of skeletal muscles is called a |
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| bends forearm at elbow, rotates hand |
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| A single contracting muscle cell can require as much as 600 _________ ATP. |
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| Which of the following is a trait that all muscles have in common? |
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| Tiny cylindrical inpocketings of a muscle cell's plasma membrane, which are scattered through the cell, are known as |
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| A band of connective tissue that connects muscle to bone is called a |
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| Muscle contractions are controlled by the availability of |
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| A constant, powerful contraction is called a |
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| The muscle that raises the arm is called the |
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| In a muscle, energy is stored in the form of |
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| The skeletal muscle is also called the |
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| Muscles get larger when they are repeatedly made to exert more than _______% of their maximum force |
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| In order to build muscle tone and mass, how much of your muscles maximum force must be exerted? |
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| What are the glial cells also known as? |
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| The junction between a neuron and another cell is called |
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| What is the first event that occurs in the synapse as the message is sent from one neuron to the next |
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| The nerve impulse reaches the axon ending of the presynaptic neuron |
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| Synaptic transmission is communication between |
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| The _____ neurons conduct information toward the brain and spinal cord. These neurons generally extend from sensory receptors. |
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| What is the function of the myelin sheath? |
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| Insulate the axon and to increase the speed of nerve impulses |
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| Which neurons conduct information toward the brain and spinal cord? |
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| When an action potential reaches the end of the axon, a chemical is released from the axon's tip. That message is then conveyed to the adjacent cell. That chemical is called |
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| Which is NOT a characteristic of Parkinson's disease? |
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| What two things are bundles together to form nerves? |
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| What category of neurons conducts information toward the brain and spinal cord? |
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| What category of neurons carries information away from the brain and spinal cord? |
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| The receiving part of a neuron is composed of what two portions? |
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| What is the period called in which a neuron cannot fire? |
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| Also known as glial cells, these support and protect neurons. |
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| A bundle of parallel axons, dendrites, or both arising from many neurons |
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| What is the insulating outer layer of an axon that also increases its rate of conduction and helps its repair? |
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| The junction between a neuron and another cell is called a |
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| What does the sensory neurons conduct information towards? |
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| All of the following steps are included in the reflex arc EXCEPT |
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| The frontal lobe is stimulated causing swallowing |
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| Which of the following is the three general categories of neurons |
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| Sensory, motor, interneurons |
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| When neurons respond to an incoming signal, the message is translated along the what? |
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| What type of neuron generally extends from sensory receptors and conducts information toward the brain and spinal cord? |
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| A neuron may have up to as many as _________ synapses at which it receives input from other neurons. |
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| A neuron has many short, projecting branches called |
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| These receive information from other neurons or from the environment |
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| Between a neuron and another cell, there is a junction which is called |
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| Sensory neurons send information to |
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| The brain and spinal cord |
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| A neuron has many short, projecting branches called |
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| The thalamus functions in all of the follow except |
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| The _______ is the part of the brain responsible for sensory-motor coordination. |
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| The central nervous system includes the ______ and the _____. |
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| What is the largest part of the brain? |
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| Which lobe in the brain is responsible of hearing? |
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| What part of the brain is where memory is stored? |
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| Which of the following body processes does the hypothalamus control? |
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| he central nervous system includes the _______ and________ which are made of many closely packed neurons. |
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| A bridge between higher and lower brain centers |
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| Which part of the brain is responsible for sensory–motor coordination and stores memory of learned motor pattern? |
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| Which of the following parts of the brain is associated with vision? |
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| Which one is NOT true about the hypothalamus? |
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| Stores memory of learned motor patterns |
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| What is not ture about cerebrospinal fluid? |
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| It is formed by the tight junctions between the celss of the capillary walls. |
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| What is the death of nerve cells caused by an interruption of blood flow to a region of the brain? |
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| What is the false statement? |
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| The autonomic nervous system governs conscious sensations and voluntary movements. |
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| All of the following are parts of the brain except |
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| "Pons" connect lower portions of the CNS with higher brain structures. What does the word "pons" literally mean? |
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| What is the largest part of the brain? |
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| What are common disorders of the nervous system? |
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| Headaches, comas, and spinal cord injuries. |
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| Spinal cord injury results in |
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| impaired function below the site of the injury |
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| Which is not a structure of the brain? |
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| The spinal cord extends about |
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| This term refers to the brain and spinal cord |
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| Which brain part allows left and right cerebral hemispheres to communicate with one another? |
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| Which of the following is the correct statement? |
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| The limbic system is involved in emotions and memory |
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| Is the center for emotions |
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| A disorder of the nervous system is |
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| Sedatives are drugs that ______________ the CNS. |
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| Which of these drugs is an opiate? |
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| The meninges, which form a protective cover over the brain and spinal cord, consist of how many layers? |
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| Which of the following does not help to protect the central nervous system? |
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| Which of these are a class of receptors? |
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| A cloudy or opaque lens, reduces visual acuity and may be caused by glucose accumulation associated with Type 1 diabetes, excessive exposure to sunlight, and cigarette smoke is |
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| The optic nerve does which of the following? |
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| Carries the message from the eyes to the brain |
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| What is not a part of the classes of receptors? |
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| What does not make up the middle ear? |
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| An estimated _____ million Americans have some degree of hearing loss |
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| The receptors responsible for color vision are _____. |
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| What receptor is responsible for detecting change in light intensity? |
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| The pigment in rods, called __________, is packaged in membrane-bound disks that are stacked like coins in the outer segment of the rod. |
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| The ear has three main parts. Which one functions as the transmitter? |
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| How many types of olfactory receptors do we do? |
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| There are five types of sensory. __________ are responsible for the sensations we describe as touch, pressure, hearing, and equilibrium. |
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| Which part of the ear serves as an amplifier? |
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| Which of the following is/are NOT considered as the general senses? |
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| Which of the following senses of taste are not responsible for taste buds? |
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| Which is not apart of the inner ear? |
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| When there is an obstruction that prevents sound from traveling to the middle and inner ear, what happens? |
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| A person experiences conductive hearing loss |
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| Cones function in ______ vision, while Rods function in__________vision |
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| How many bones are in the middle ear? |
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| Why constitutes being farsighted? |
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| Able to see distant objects more clearly than close ones, and your eyeball is too short |
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| Distant objects out of focus |
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| What is the auditory tube? |
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| A canal that connects the middle eat cavity with the upper region of the throat. |
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| Why do we have a blind spot in our vision? |
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| That is where the optic nerve attaches to the eye, and there are no photoreceptors in that area |
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| All of the following are general senses except |
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| What does the middle layer of an eye contain? |
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| What does the outer layer of an eye contain? |
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| What does the inner layer of an eye contain? |
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| Changes in DNA are called |
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| A field in which scientists make controlled use of living cells to perform specific tasks is known as: |
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| What is similar about DNA and RNA? |
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| Which of the following RNA is used for carrying DNA's information in the sequence of its bases from the nucleus to the cytoplasm？ |
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| How many bases are there on a single tRNA？ |
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| Where are amino acids built into proteins？ |
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| Each original strand serves as a template for a new strand during |
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| DNA is a double helix consisting of |
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| Two strands of nucleotides |
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| What is the Central Dogma? |
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| Transcription is ________ synthesis |
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| The first step in converting the DNA message to a protein is to copy the message as RNA, by a process called |
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| Changes in genes are called ____ |
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| Which of these three stages are not part of protein synthesis? |
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| What is spliced together to form the mature mRNA that is translated into a protein? |
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| In Double Stranded DNA the templates are mixed with all of the following except? |
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| __________ engineering allows a gene for a trait considered useful by humans to be taken from one species and transferred to another species. |
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| DNA and RNA are similar in that they both |
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have a sugar phosphate backbone.
and are double-stranded. |
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Which of the following is NOT correct?
RNA and DNA are similar because |
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| they both function primarily in the nucleus |
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| Changes in DNA are called |
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| The "language" of genes that translates the sequences of bases in DNA into the specific sequence of amino acids in a protein is called the |
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| What is a change in the nucleotide sequence of DNA? |
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| A _____, is a population or group of populations whose members are capable of successful interbreeding. |
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| What is the study of the geographic distribution of organisms? |
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| The fossil record provides evidence of_____. |
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A _______ is a population or group of populations
whose members are capable of successful interbreeding |
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| Large scale evolutionary change over longer periods of time |
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| An individual's fitness refers to |
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| The number of their genes represented in future generations |
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| Which of the following is NOT true about fossils? |
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| Fossils are very abundant and easy to find |
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| Which of the following molecules is most critical to the development of cells? |
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| Evolution that results from changes at the genetic level is called? |
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| What is the only source for brand new genetic information? |
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| Which is the correct order of classification categories from NARROWEST to BROADEST? |
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| Species, family, subphylum, phylum, domain |
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| Who is (or, more accurately, was) Lucy? |
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| A young female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis |
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| Which of the following are steps of the fossilization process? |
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| Causes of microevolution include |
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| Which of the following are the levels on which evolution occurs? |
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| A and D (microevolution and macroevolution) |
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| Which one of the following is true about Charles Robert Darwin? |
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| Father and Grandfather were physicians and scientists |
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| What is the first of the sequence for fossilization? |
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| An organism dies underwater |
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| Which of following is the wrong statement? |
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| The human population is increasing, the rate of growth is increasing, too |
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| What's the definition of Eugenics? |
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| A science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed |
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| Which of these is NOT part of the sequence for fossilization? |
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| Which of the following hominid types is considered the first to begin using tools? |
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| Which of these is NOT a characteristic of primates? |
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| What occurs through changes in allele frequencies within a population over a few generations? |
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| The term hominin refers to |
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| The human lineage and its immediate ancestors |
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| Convergent evolution can result in |
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| Rare changes in DNA are known as |
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| What is the name of the process in which overfarming and overgrazing transform marginal farmland to desert? |
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| What is the name for the measure of the amount of productive land and water required to support a person or population based on its consumption level? |
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| Which of the following is helpful to predict future growth? |
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| What is the name for the measure of the amount of Carbon Dioxide entering the atmosphere due to a person or nation’s dailty activites? |
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| What is a carbon footprint? |
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| he measure of the amount of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere due to a person's or nation's daily activities |
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| How populations change in size is defined as ____ |
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| Carrying capacity is NOT determined by ____ |
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| Deforestation is defined as |
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| removal of trees from an area without replacing the trees |
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| Population dynamics is is described as |
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| How populations change in size |
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| The relative number of individuals of each age is |
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| Population dynamics describe how _____ change in ____. |
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| Which of the following can be the best example of density independent? |
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| What does Depletion of Resource include? |
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| Which is NOT the influence that Global Warming brings to us? |
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| Coastal cities could never flood |
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| Which of the following is an astigmatism? |
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| Visual image is distorted |
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| What one of these is not a special sense? |
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| Which of these is not a class of receptors? |
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