Exam 1: Major Themes of Anatomy and Physiology

All functions of the body can be interpreted as the effects of cellular activity.

Which of the following is most likely to cause disease?

Stereoscopic vision provides __________.

Positive feedback helps to restore normal function when one of the body's physiological variables gets out of balance.

______________ is a process that submits a scientist's ideas to the critical judgment of other specialists in the field before the research is funded or published.

Which of the following is not an example of a physiological gradient?

The terms development and evolution have the same meaning in physiology.

Who was a physician to the Roman gladiators,learned by dissection of animals,and saw science as a method of discovery?

Negative feedback is a self-amplifying chain of events that tends to produce rapid change in the body.

_________________ are the simplest body structures considered alive.

The fact that most of us have five lumbar vertebrae,but some people have six and some have four,is an example of ____________ variation among organisms.

What type of gradient cause the movement of ions due to both charge and concentration differences?

Chemicals in a solution can move down a concentration gradient.This means the chemical will move from the area of __________ concentration to the area of _________ concentration.

_____________ is the view that not everything about an organism can be understood or predicted from the knowledge of its components;that is,the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Which of the following lists examples of body structures from the simplest to the most complex?

Feeling for swollen lymph nodes is an example of auscultation.

Precise spelling is important in anatomy because __________.

All of the following are organs except __________.

A change in the genetic composition of a population over time is called __________.

A molecule of water is more complex than a mitochondrion (organelle).