1.

What is the outer region of the kidney

called? 7. A larger-diameter muscular tube that
a) renal cortex transports blood away from the heart toward
b) medulla oblongata the cells of body tissues is called________.
c) the pelvis a)Vein
d) kidney muscularis B)Artery
e) aorta C)Capillary
answer: A D)Venule
answer: B
2. The kidneys regulate:
a) excretion 8. What is the smallest kind of vein
b) the collecting duct a. artery
c) amount of water and substances that are b. venule
removed to and from the blood c. arteriole
d)how urine will leave the body d. heart
e) the breakdown of amino acid e. lungs
answer: C answer: B

3. What hormone is released by the kidneys? 9. How large is the human heart?
a. adrenaline a. watermelon
b. calcitonin b. fist
c. erythropoietin c. It greatly varies
d. insulin d. golf ball
e. oxytocin e. marble
answer :C answer: B

4. The function (s) of nephrons include: 10. What is the single greatest killer of men
A. glomerular Filtration and women in the United States?
B. Tubular Reabsorption a. car accidents
C. Tubular Secretion b. marijuana
D. All of the Above c. cardiocascular disease
E. None of the Above d. aids
answer: D e. cigarettes
answer: C
5. Which of the following is a mechanism to
move blood from the lower parts of the body 11. The amount of air inhaled or exhaled
toward the heart? during a normal breath is called
a. Valves in veins prevent backflow of blood a. inspiratory reserve volume
b. Contraction of skeletal muscle squeeze veins b. tidal volume
c. Breathing causes pressure changes that c. expiratory volume
move blood toward the heart d. vital capacity
d. all of the above e. residual volume
answer: D answer: b

6. What are the two circuits through which 12. What is a process of the respiratory
blood flows through the heart? system?
a) the pulmonary circuit and systematic circuit a. breathing
b) the myocardium circuit and systemic circuit b. external respiration
c) the the atrium circuit and the pulmonary c. gas transport
circuit d. internal respiration
d) the pulmonary circuit and systemic circuit e. all of the above
answer: D answer: e
13. Which one is NOT a main function of the d.Step Four: Morula
nose? e.Step Five: Blastocyast
a. filtration and cleansing answer: A
b. breathing 19.By day 4, successive divisions produce a
c. conditioning the air morula, a solid ball of cells that enter the
d. olfaction uterus.
answer: b a.One: Ovulation
b.Step Two: Fertilization
14. What adjustable passageway produces the c.Step Three: Cleavage
voice? d.Step Four: Morula
a. the larynx e.Step Five: Blastocyast
b. the bronchial tree Answer: D
c. the pharynx
d. the eustachian tubes 20. A single sperm Penetrates the secondary
answer: a oocyte. Eventually, the sperm and egg nicleui
will fuse, resulting in a fertilized egg or zygote.
15. Which part of the lower respiratory system a. Step One: Ovulation
serves as the main airway and consists of a b. Step Two: Fertilization
tube reinforced with c-shaped rings of c. Step Three: Cleavage
cartilage? d. Step Four: Morula
a) Alveoli e. Step Five: Blastocyast
b) Trachea Answer: B
c) Larynx
d) Epiglottis 21. In what part of the male reproductive
e) Bronchi system are sperm stored and mature?
ANSWER: B a. penis
b. urethra
16. Which of the following is the exchange of c. epididymus
oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs d. vas deferans
and the blood? ANSWER C
A. Breathing
B. External respiration 22. What is the most common cancer for
C. Gas transport males, ages 15-35?
D. Internal respiration a. lung cancer
ANSWER: B b. testicular cancer
c. cervical cancer
17. What is the boxlike structure composed of d. prostate cancer
mostly cartilage that functions as a "traffic ANSWER B
director" for materials passing through the
neck? 23. What are the two gamete cells?
A. Pharynx a. androgen and testosterone
B. Epiglottis b. sperm and egg
C. Larynx c. zygotes
D. Glottis d. estrogen and progesterone
E. Bronchial tree ANSWER B
ANSWER: C
24. What are the only three chromosomes that
18.In the very early stages of reproduction, the can be tolerated in excess?
step where a secondary oocyte is released A.21, 13, 18
from the ovary and swept into the oviduct: B.13, 15, 16
a.Step One: Ovulation C.21, 22, 23
b.Step Two: Fertilization D.1, 2, 3
c.Step Three: Cleavage E.2, 4, 6
Answer : A E)None of the above
Answer:A
25. Which one of the following genotype is 31. How many homologous chromosome pairs
homozygous recessive? are there in a cell?
A.AA A. 45
B.Aa B. 23
C.aa C. 28
D.aA D. 22
E.none of the above Answer: B
Answer: C
32. Condition in which there are three
26. The genotype of both parents are Aa, representatives of one chromosome is called:
what’s the chance of the offspring has A. Mitosis
genotype of aa? B. Nondisjunction
A.1/2 C. Trisomy
B.1/4 D. Crossing Over
C.1/6 Answer: C
D.0
E.1 33. How many stages does mitosis have?
Answer: B A. 1
B. 12
27.The human prenatal period is divided into C. 8
three period,except_____ D. 4
A)Pre embryonic period Answer: D
B)Embryonic period
C)Postnatal period 34. In what stage of mitosis does cytokinesis
D)Fetal period take place?
E)Period A. Interphase
Answer:C B. Metaphase
C. Anaphase
28.Usually,how many weeks after fertilization D. Telophase
does birth occurs? Answer: D
A)I have no idea.
B)24 hours after fertilization. 35. Three copies of chromosome 21 causes:
C)40 days after fertilization. A. Turner Syndrome
D)10 weeks after fertilization. B. Klinefelter Syndrome
E)38 weeks after fertilization. C. Down Syndrome
Answer:E D. Tay-Sachs Disease
E. All of the above
29)The early stage in the reproductive process Answer: C
include:
A)Ovulation 36. How many spermatozoas and eggs will be
B)Fertilization produced in the end of spermatogenesis and
C)Cleavage oogenesis?
D)Morula A. 4, 4
E)All of the above B. 1, 4
Answer:E C. 1, 1
D. 4, 1
30)Which is the first stage of labor? E. 3, 1
A)Dilation stage Answer: D
B)Expulsion stage
C)Placental stage
D)Parental stage
 Filtration, Cleansing
Answer B
37. Chromosomes always consist of:
A. DNA 42. What makes up the upper respiratory
B. Proteins system?
C. Nutrients A.sinuses
D. Mutations B.diaphragm
E. A & B C.bronchi and bronchioles
Answer: E D.sinuses, nasal cavity, and pharynx
Answer D
38. The daughter cells produced in meiosis are
genetically: 43. The alveoli of the lungs are
A. Mutated A.surfaces for gas exchange
B. Dissimilar B.covered with capillaries
C. Identical C.cup shaped chambers for gases to go in
D. Similar D.all of the above
E. A & B Answer D
Answer: B
44. Oxygen is carried from the _____
39. The structure of the lung is most like ___. throughout the body by the _____. ____ is a
a) a balloon protein in the red blood cells that binds to
b) a grapelike cluster oxygen in order to carrie it from the lungs to
c) foam rubber the cells.
d) coral A.alveoli, blood, hemoglobin
Correct answer: C B.blood, saliva, hydrogen
C.alveoli, hemoglobin, plasma
2. Pneumonia can be caused by: D.brain, alveoli, hemoglobin
a) radiation, chemicals, or allergies Answer A
b) fungi or protozoans
c) bacteria or viruses 45. Which of the following is not a function of
d) all of the above the Nephrons (units of the kidneys responsible
e) none of the above for urine production)
Correct answer: D A. Glomerular filtration
B. Tubular reabsorption
40. During normal breathing, which is a factor C. Tubular secretion
in exhalation? D. Glomerular homeostasis
a) contraction of intercostal muscles Answer: D
b) contraction of the diaphragm
c) abdominal contraction 46. Which of the following are part of the
d) relaxation of the diaphragm urinary system?
e)none of the above A) Bladder
Correct answer: D B) Kidneys
C)Ureter
41. What are the four processes that play a D)Urethra
part in respiration? E) They are all components of the urinary
A.Breathing, Diffusion, Submission, Gas system
Transport Answer: E
B.Breathing, External respiration, Gas
transport, Internal Respiration 47. Which of the following is not a region of the
C.Breathing, Filtration, Cleansing, Gas kidney?
transport A) Renal cortex
D.External respiration, Cleansing, Carbon B) Renal medulla
Exchange, Filtration C) Renal vein
E. Chemical Reaction, Oxygen Transport, D) Renal pelvis
Answer: C D)Morula
E)All of the above
Answer:E

54)Which is the first stage of labor?

48. What is the most common cancer in men A)Dilation stage
between ages 15 and 35? B)Expulsion stage
A. Colon Cancer C)Placental stage
B. Testicular Cancer D)Parental stage
C. Lung Cancer E)None of the above
D. Breast Cancer Answer: A.
E. All of the above
Answer: B 55. What is the correct order of the early
stages of the reproductive process?
49. What part of the male reproductive system A. cleavage, fertilization, ovulation,
stores the sperm for maturation? implantation
a) testes B. ovulation, fertilization, implantation,
b) urethra cleavage
C. fertilization, ovulation, cleavage,
c) epididymis
implantation
d) prostate gland D. ovulation, fertilization,
e) seminal vesicles cleavage,implantation
Answer: C Answer: D

50. Which female reproductive part is located 56. What are the three parts of the prenatal
externally? period?
A. Pre-Pregnant, Pregnant, Post-Pregnant
a)Labia Majora
B. Fertilization, Pregnant, Labor
b)Uterus C. Pre-Embryonic Period, Embryonic Period,
c)Cervix Fetal Period
d)Overies D. Cleavage period, Implantation period,
e)None of the above Extraembryonic period
Answer: A Answer: C

51.The human prenatal period is divided into 57. This term describes the union of a sperm
three period,except_____ and an egg.
A)Pre embryonic period A. ovulation
B)Embryonic period B. fertilization
C)Postnatal period C. embryonization
D)Fetal period D. mitosis
E)Period Answer: B
Answer:C
58. This is the fertilized ovum containing
genetic material from both the mother and
father with a total of 46 chromosomes
52.Usually,how many weeks after fertilization
A. embryo
does birth occurs?
B. blastocyst
A)I have no idea.
C. zygote
B)24 hours after fertilization.
D. morula
C)40 days after fertilization.
Answer: C.
D)10 weeks after fertilization.
E)38 weeks after fertilization.
59.How many homologous chromosome pairs
Answer:E
are there in a cell?
A. 45
B. 23
53)The early stage in the reproductive process
C. 28
include:
D. 22
A)Ovulation
Answer: B
B)Fertilization
C)Cleavage
60.Condition in which there are three D.) Cytokinesis
representatives of one chromosome is called: ANSWER: B
A. Mitosis
B. Nondisjunction
C. Trisomy 67.Three copies of chromosome 21 causes:
D. Crossing Over A. Turner Syndrome
Answer: C B. Klinefelter Syndrome
C. Down Syndrome
D. Tay-Sachs Disease
61.What is a stem cell? E. All of the above
A. the end of a cell Answer: C
B. unspecialized cells that divide continually
C. specialized cells
68.How many spermatozoas and eggs will be
D. unspecialized cells that dont divide ever
E. none of the above produced in the end of spermatogenesis and
answer:B oogenesis?
A. 4, 4
B. 1, 4
62.In what stage of mitosis does cytokinesis C. 1, 1
take place? D. 4, 1
A. Interphase E. 3, 1
B. Metaphase Answer: D
C. Anaphase
D. Telophase
69.Chromosomes always consist of:
Answer: D
A. DNA
63.What is the type of cell division that B. Proteins
produces haploid gametes? C. Nutrients
A. Interphase D. Mutations
B. Mitosis E. A & B
C. Meiosis Answer: E
D. Cytokinesis
Answer: C
70.The daughter cells produced in meiosis are
64.Interphase is? genetically:
A. Specific segment of DNA that controls A. Mutated
protein synthesis. B. Dissimilar
B. Stage of mitosis in which chromosomes C. Identical
attach to mitotic spindle. D. Similar
C. A time when changes occur both in the
E. A & B
nucleus and cytoplasm.
D. Period of growth and preparation for cell Answer: B
division.
Answer: D 71.Which one of the following structures does
not constitute the lower respiratory system?
65.What is the first stage in cell division? A. Epiglottis
A) Prophase B. Larynx
B) Interphase C. Pharynx
C) Metaphase D. Trachea
D) Anaphase E. Alveoli
E) None of the above Answer: C.
Answer: B
72.What structure of the lower respiratory
66.What is the cell divison cycle in which one system is considered the source of the voice?
nucleus divides into two daughter nucei A. Trachea
containing the same number and kinds of B. Bronchi
chromosomes? C. Larynx
A.) Interphase D. Bronchioles
B.) Mitosis E. Lungs
C.) Meiosis Answer: C.
 from the heart
73.Tidal Volume is...? c. Veins transport blood to the heart
A.The amount of air inhaled or exhaled during d. Both A and C
an ordinary breath. e. Arteries and veins both transport blood to
B.The amount of air that can be inhaled in the heart
addition to a normal breath. Answer: D
C.The amount of air that can be exhaled in
addition to a normal breath. 79.) What are the 3 regions of a kidney in
D.The amount of air remaining in the lungs order?
after maximum exhalation. a. renal pelvis,renal medulla, renal cortex
E.The amount of air that can be inhaled or b.renal medulla, renal pelvis, renal cortex
exhaled in a single breath. c. renal cortex, renal medulla, renal pelvis
Answer: A. d. None of these are in the correct order
ANSWER: C
74.What is the function of the pharanyx?
A. The main airway
B. Conduct air from trachea to each lung 80.) Metabolic wastes include which of the
C. Common passageway for air, food, and drink following substances?
D. Adjustable entryway that produces the voice A. Carbon Dioxide
E. Provide internal surface area for gas ...B. Water
exchange C. Salts
Answer:C. D. All of the above
Answer: D

75. Where does the pulmonary circuit transport 81.) Which of the following is a function of
blood to: Nephrons?
a) Lungs A. Glomerular filtration
b) Arms B. Tubular reabsorption
c) Legs C. The rest of the answers are correct (A,B,D)
d) Brain D. Tubular secretion
e) All the Above Answer: C
Answer: A
82.What muscular tubes transport blood away
from the heart?
76. Which artery is responsible for delivering a. Capillaries
blood to the head and the brain? b. Arteries
a) Pulmonary Artery c. Venules
b) Coronary Artery d. Veins
c) Carotid Artery e. Arterioles
d) Renal Artery ANSWER: B
e) Aorta
Answer: C 83.Which of the following are microscopic
blood vessels that connect arterioles and
77. The correct order that oxygen- rich blood venules?
flows through in the body is: a. Capillaries
a) Heart - vein - artery - capillary - arteriole - b. Arteries
venule c. Venules
b) Heart - artery - capillary - arteriole - venule - d. Veins
vein e. Arterioles
c) Heart - artery - arteriole - capillary - venule - ANSWER: A
vein
d) Lungs - heart - capillariy - muscles - vein - 84.What muscular tubes transport blood to the
venule heart?
e) Heart - arteries - arteriole - capillary - vein – a. Capillaries
venule b. Arteries
Answer: C c. Venules
d. Veins
78. Which is correct in the relation to blood e. Arterioles
transportation? ANSWER: D
a. Arteries transport blood away from the heart
b. Arteries and veins both transport blood away 85.Which of the following are the controllers of
blood pressure and the "gate-keeper" of
capillary networks? A) A selective entrance to the lower respiratory
a. Capillaries system
b. Arteries B) Production of voice
c. Venules ...C) Housing of the auditory tubes
d. Veins D) Both A and B
e. Arterioles Correct Answer: D
ANSWER: E
93.What causes emphysema?
86.What are the nephrons responsible for?
A) The reduction in the number of alveioli
a. conserving water
B) Production of voice
b. forming urine
C) Housing of the auditory tubes
c. transforming vitamin D into calctirio...l
D) Both A and B
d. maintaining homeostasis
Correct Answer: A
ANSWER: B
94.Which of the following is NOT true about
lung cancer?
A) 85-90% of all cases of lung cancer are
87.The hypothalamus reponds to changes in caused by smoking
the concentration of water in the blood by: B) Lung cancer usually has no symptoms until
a. increasing secretion of ADH it was quite advanced
b. decreasing secretion of ADH C) The progression to lung cancer begins with
c. increasing ducts of nephrons chronic inflammation
d. both A & B D) Lung Cancer is usually detected in time for a
E. none of the above cure
ANSWER: D Correct Answer: D
88.In what age are the neural connections to 95.What are the types of chromosome
the external urethral sphincter fully developed, alterations?
which allows conscious control over urination? a. inversion
a)10 b. translocation
b)4 c. duplication
c) 6 d. all of the above
d)35 answer: D
Answer: D
96.When is an allele described as dominant?
89.Which hormone is released by the adrenal a. when the effects of an allele cannot be
cortex? detected, regardless of whether an alternative
A. Atrial natriuretic allele is also present
B. Adolestrone b. when the effects of an allele can be
C. ADH det...ected, regardless of whether an
D. Nephons alternative allele is also present
Answer: B c. only when an allele is the only one present
d. none of the above
90.What is the site where substances are answer: B
removed... from and added to the filtrate?
a. distal convoluted tubule 97.What is a carrier?
b. collecting duct a. someone who displays the recessive
c. renal tubule phenotype but is heterozygous for a trait and
d. proximal convoluted tubule can pass on the dominant allele to
e. glomerular capsule descendants
Answer: C b. a small canine with a rather high pitched
bark
91.The Lower Respiratory System, responsible c. someone who displays the dominant
for exchanging gases is made up of the phenotype but is heterozygous for a trait and
following, EXCEPT: can pass on the rece...ssive allele to
A) Lungs descendants
B) Trachea d. someone who displays the dominant
C) Sinuses phenotype but is homozygous for a trait and
D) Bronchi can pass on the recessive allele to descendants
E) Bronchioles answer: C
Correct Answer: C
98. individuals with two copies of the same
92.What is the main function(s) of the larynx? allele of a gene:
a. genotype C. Metaphase
b. heterozygous D. Telophase
c. phenotype E. Prophase
d. homozygous Answer:D
answer: D.
105.What is not true of mitosis?
A. it prodcues two diploid cells
99.If a couple's genotypes are all FfGg,so what B. its daughter cells are genetically dissimiliar
is the posibilityfor their child has the FFGg and C.... Chromosomes are exchanged in crossover
FFgg? D. Occurs in somatic cells
A.1/16;1/4 E. One cell division
B.1/16;1/16 Answer: C
C.1/8;1/16
D.1/16;1/8
ANS:C

100.About Sex-Linked G...enes, which one of

following is NOT ture?
A. The Y chromosome is important in
determining gender.
B. An embryo without Y chromosome will
develop as a female.
C. A son can inherit an X-linked recessive allele
only from his mother.
D. A daughter's X-linked recessive allele must
be inherited by her mother.
Answer: D.
101.The condition in which there are three
representatives of one chromosome is called
A. Monosomy
B. Trisomy
C. Nondisjunction
D. Autosomy
Answer: B

102.A combination of a DNA molecule and

specialized proteins called histones is a
A. Chromosome
B. Diploid
C. Gene
D. Centromere
Answer: A

103.Meiosis keeps the chromosome number

____ ...over generations and _____ genetic
variability in the population.
A. Constant, decreases
B. Constant, increases
C. Changing, increases
D. Changing, decreases
E. None of the above
Answer: B
104.During this process, a nuclear envelope
forms around each group of chromosomes at
each pole, and the mitotic spindle
disassembles.
A. Anaphase
B. Interphase