Exam 1: Introduction to Physiology

The Internet database for molecular, cellular, and physiological information is called the ________ Project.

You are designing a study to assess the effects of a new drug treatment for hypertension.In your study of this drug's efficacy in treating hypertension, your subjects are white males, ages 40 to 60 years.Is your study applicable to all people? Explain.

A study in which a participant acts as an experimental subject in part of the experiment and a control in another part of the experiment is called a ________ study.

"Glucose is transported from blood into cells by transporters in response to insulin." This type of explanation is

Which of the following is a buffer zone between the outside world and most of the cells of the body?

What is a hypothesis? What are the steps involved in following the scientific method? How does one distinguish the dependent variable from the independent variable in an experiment? How are each of these represented on a graph?

Table 1.1 Figure 1.1 Use the table and graph below to answer the following questions. -Referring to Table 1.2, what general trend in systolic blood pressures is seen as both men and women increase in age?

Place these terms in the typical sequence in which they appear in the process of scientific inquiry: experimental data, theory, model, observation, hypothesis, replication.

Explain why animals are used in research.Are there any limitations to the application of animal data to human physiology? Could these limitations be addressed using cell or tissue culture, or computer simulations?