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Test Bank to accompany Animal Physiology, Fifth Edition Hill • Wyse • Anderson

Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage

TEST BANK QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice

• Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
• It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
• It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
• It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
• It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology

Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating

• To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists

would study its

• biomechanics.
• evolution.
• ecology.
• cell physiology.

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology

Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

• The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
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• Evolution
• Cell physiology
• Morphology
• Ecology

Answer: d

Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology

Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

• 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.

• feedback
• regulation
• natural selection
• mechanism

Answer: d

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering

• How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
• Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
• Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
• ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
• Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

• Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the

firefly?

• Oxygen
• ATP
• Light
• Luciferin

Answer: c

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

• In the firefly, light is emitted when
• ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
• released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
• the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
• luciferase is activated by oxygen.

Answer: c

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Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating

• Which of the following is considered the “on” switch for the light-emitting reaction of

the firefly?

• Oxygen
• Luciferase
• Nitric oxide
• ATP

Answer: c

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 3. Applying

• A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution and is

advantageous is called

• an adaptation.
• natural selection.
• adaptive significance.
• evolution.

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering

• What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
• Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species.
• All fireflies emit light to lure prey.
• Male fireflies emit light to attract mates.
• Male fireflies emit light to evade predators.

Answer: c

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding

• Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
• The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision
• The mechanism of vision
• The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
• The neuroanatomy of the eye

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions

Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating

• Research in the field of physiology emphasizes synthesis across levels of

biological organization.

• evolutionary
• comparative
• environmental
• integrative
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