FINAL

Question 0

The major means of propelling food through the digestive tract is
A) churning 
B) swallowing 
C) peristalsis 
D) segmentation

Answer 0

C) peristalsis

Question 1

Which layer if the alimentary cabal contains the nerve supply of the enteric neurons that regulate digestive system activity?
A) mucosa
B) serosa 
C) muscularis externa
D) submucosa

Answer 1

D) submucosa

Question 2

What is the most likely consequence of removing the gallbladder?
A) complete inability to digest far
B) death. You can’t love without a gallbladder
C) most people don’t have symptoms, but some people get pain and diarrhea

Answer 2

C) most people don’t have symptoms, but some people get pain and diarrhea

Question 3

An effective way to medically treat diarrhea would be to use a drug that
A) increases the activity of the longitudinal layer if the muscularis
B) increase the activity of the parasympathetic division of the ANS
C) inhibits muscle tone in the anal sphincters
D) inhibits the activity if the myenteric nerve plexus

Answer 3

D) inhibits the activity if the myenteric nerve plexus