MULTIPLECHOICE.Place the letter of the choice that best answers the question
on the line to the left. Three Points Each.
NOTE: "e" answers are never the correct answer.
_______ 1. An antibody is a type of protein
a. Found only on disease organisms
b. Foreign to the body
c. Produced in B cells
d. Commonly used as a drug
e. That just begs for an uncle joke.
_______ 2. A glomerulus is involved in
a. Blood-level immunity
b. Surface immunity
c. Temperature control
d. Excretion
e. Something icky, from the sound of it
_______ 3. Which is most likely to be a cuticle?
a. Spider exoskeleton
b. Fish gill
c. Blood clot
d. Lizard bone
e. None of these look very cute at all...
_______ 4. A rib cage is a feature of
a. An exoskeleton
b. The appendicular skeleton
c. The axial skeleton
d. The respiratory skeleton
e. Good Memphis Barbeque
_______5. Of the various subtypes of muscle,
a. Two are striated and one is not
b. Three are striated and one is not
c. Two are striated and two are not
d. One is striated and two are not
e. It would help if I knew what "striated" meant...
_______6. Red blood cells are the primary carriers of
a. Oxygen only
b. Oxygen and carbon dioxide
c. Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and sodium
d. Histamines
e. Red stuff
_______7. Which involve filters?
a. Antennal glands and kidneys
b. Protonephridia and malpighian tubules
c. Diffusion and kidneys
d. Metanephridia and protonephridia
e. Making coffee and screening phone calls
_______8. Serial homology is a concept related to which statement?
a. Animals on the same evolutionary branch share many features
b. Metabolic processes follow orderly pathways
c. In insects, both mouthparts and legs have the same number of joints
d. From the main pumps, circulatory systems can form "mirror images" of
vessels
e. I have Fruit Loops in my kitchen cabinet
_______9. Histology is the study of
a. Immunity function
b. Temperature regulation
c. Excretory function
d. Tissues
e. Knowing the word "history" isn't gonna help here, is it-?
_______10. Cartilage should be easily found
a. Integrated into bone
b. Integrated into integument
c. In muscles
d. In joints
e. At a cartilage store
_______11. Which can serve to storemovement (mechanical) energy?
a. Tendons
b. ATP
c. Fat
d. Shells
e. Videotape
_______12. The term hydrostatic refers to
a. Osmotic regulation
b. A skeleton type
c. Overall metabolic stability
d. A circulation pump
e. What you say when you see Drostatic in the hall
SHORT ANSWER. Pick TEN Questions to answer in the spaces provided. NOTE: if you answer MORE than ten, only the first ten will be corrected.
Four Points each. Partial credit is possible.
1. Briefly give the steps by which a nerve impulse "jumps across" a synapse.
2. What are the two main functions of a lymphatic system?
3. Virtually all excretory structures take in potential waste solutions and then do what two
steps with them?
4. Briefly explain (or diagram) a heat-exchange countercurrent system.
5. What are two different classes of external secretions that animals can produce?
6. Name two different metabolic processes that generally cause land animals to lose water.
7. Why exactly does an extended pseudopod need to adhere itself to a surface?
8. What are two disadvantages to being endothermic?
9. What are two types of cells found in the dermis?
10. Place the following organizational levels, presented alphabetically, in order from "simplest"
to "most complex:" cellular, individual, organ, organ system, protoplasmic, tissue.
1
2
3
4
5
6
11. What are the two main functions of a skeletal system?
12. What are two adaptations made by endotherms in cold environments that are pretty
much behavioral?
13. Briefly define osmotic conformer andsuggest an ecosystem where they should be
common.
14. What are the two main functions performed by a notochord?
15. Which subtype of muscle tissue is only found in invertebrates, and what is it used for?
16. Ciliary movement can be used for what two different groups of processes?
LONG ANSWER. Select and answer completely any four of the following questions.
NOTE: if you answer more than four, only the first four will be corrected.
Six Points Each. Partial credit is possible.
1. What are six broad classes (so don't get too specific) of materials that can be found
dissolved in vertebrate blood?
2. For three basic types of animal tissues (not subtypes), name the tissue and give those
features or functions that make each distinctive from the others.
3. What are three clear advantages that an endoskeleton has, compared to an exoskeleton?
4. For the three major types of animal excretory products, name the product and give a clear
benefit that an animal making it would gain.
5. Describe the relevant steps, including the tissue involved, of oxygen debt. The number of
steps can vary depending on how you describe them - the lines below are not meant to suggest
how many steps there are.
6. What are six different types of functions that can be performed by integument?
7. For the three types of blood vessels, give the name and twofeatures of each.
BONUS QUESTIONS. Answer as many or as few as you wish. You can't lose points on the
rest of the exam by getting these wrong. Partial credit is possible.
What type of tissue is blood usually considered (2 Points), and why? (3 Points)
Why is it that invertebrates have an epidermis but no dermis? Three Points.
Human skin color is the result of an adaptation "balancing" which two effects? Three Points
each.
What is it, exactly, about evaporation that make it a cooling process? Three Points.
What set of circumstances led to the FMCC field mouse invasion a couple of years ago? Four
Points.
An inflammation commonly leads to a
warm, reddish swollen area. For Two
Points each, what is happening exactly to
produce each of those features?
What is it, exactly, in pork that causes
trichinosis? Three Points.
What western practice may be directly
linked to the recent rise in allergies (Two
Points), and why might the link exist (Three
Points)?