Exam 1 Review

Question 1

Which of the following is not a tissue type?

Answer 1

Hair

Question 2

What is the function of acetylcholinesterase (ACHase)?

Answer 2

Deactivation of ACH

Question 3

The Na-K pump is an example of?

Answer 3

Active Transport

Question 4

To move a limb closer to midline?

Answer 4

Adduction

Question 5

What kind of modification do the cells that line the trachea have?

Answer 5

Ciliated

Question 6

What type of tissue covers surfaces?

Answer 6

Epithelium

Question 7

Neurons produce special chemicals called ______________ that are released at the synapse?

Answer 7

Neurotransmitters

Question 8

Sympathetic response refers with Autonomic Nervous System response?

Answer 8

Flight or Fight or Freeze

Question 9

“Origin”, “insertion”, and “action” are descriptive terms of what tissue?

Answer 9

Skeletal muscle

Question 10

What ion is stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle?

Answer 10

Ca++

Question 11

Where are muscles found that have intercalated disks and can therefore work as a
syncytium?

Answer 11

The wall of the heart

Question 12

How does the common anesthetic lidocaine work?

Answer 12

Blocks sodium channels

Question 13

About what percent of the animal’s body is water?

Answer 13

70

Question 14

Which cellular organelle is involved in the synthesis of ribosomal RNA?

Answer 14

Nucleolus

Question 15

“The central purpose of physiology is to provide constancy of the internal
environment” defines what term?

Answer 15

Homeostasis

Question 16

The junction between neurons is the _________________?

Answer 16

Synapse

Question 17

If epithelial cells are very flat, like those lining blood vessels, they are given what
name?

Answer 17

Squamous

Question 18

Where in the body is acetylcholine (ACH) and serotonin found?

Answer 18

At nerve Synapses

Question 19

Which two terms of orientation mean the same in the dog?

Answer 19

Posterior-Caudal

Question 20

The heart has specialized nervous tissue interspersed within the muscle called
______________?

Answer 20

Purkinje fibers

Question 21

Which layer of meninges is most superficial?

Answer 21

Dura Mater

Question 22

Which of the following is the site in the cell for protein synthesis?

Answer 22

Ribosomes

Question 23

Ultrastructural anatomy imaging utilizes ______________________.

Answer 23

Electron Microscopes

Question 24

Which molecule makes up most of our body weight

Answer 24

Oxygen

Question 25

Which of the following is not a type of connective tissue?

Answer 25

Simple Cuboidal

Question 26

Nodes of Ranvier are a part of what structure?

Answer 26

Myelinated nerves

Question 27

Energy (ATP) is needed for what type of transport across the cell membrane?

Answer 27

Active transport

Question 28

_______ connect(s) muscles to bones.

Answer 28

Tendons

Question 29

What is the proper sequence of events in skeletal muscle contraction? (1) crossbridging (2) separation (3) power stroke

Answer 29

crossbridging power stroke separation

Question 30

Which of the following is not true for skeletal muscle?

Answer 30

It is stimulated to contract only by the autonomic nervous system

Question 31

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in humans is called what in the dog?

Answer 31

cranial cruciate ligament

Question 32

What organelles of the cell packages materials synthesized by the rough ER?

Answer 32

Golgi Complex

Question 33

The functional unit of skeletal muscle is the __________________.

Answer 33

Sarcomere

Question 34

What is the major building block of the cell membrane?

Answer 34

Phospholipids

Question 35

Which of the following is found in the largest percent in the market age of the domestic animal’s body?

Answer 35

Muscle

Question 36

Calcium binds to the protein troponin on __________ allowing muscle contraction?

Answer 36

Actin

Question 37

The ventral root of the spinal cord peripheral nerves are _____?

Answer 37

Motor Nerves

Question 38

Which anatomical plane bisects the animal into top and bottom halves?

Answer 38

Frontal

Question 39

At which phase of cell division does the nuclear envelop completely disappear and chromatids line up across cell’s equator?

Answer 39

Metaphase

Question 40

The stifle (knee) ligaments are named by their insertion onto which bone?

Answer 40

Tibia

Question 41

As discussed in class, IVDD is often caused by partial or completed rupture of the ___________?

Answer 41

Nucleus pulposus

Question 42

Which cellular organelle is important for energy production?

Answer 42

Mitochondria