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Summary Bio 210 1st Semester Exam Study Guide
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- BIO 210
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- Greenville Technical College
This is a comprehensive and detailed detailed Study Guide for Semester I Anatomy Physiology Exam
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Study Guide for Semester I Anatomy/Physiology Exam 2019-2020There are 100 multiple choice and matching questions on the exam. The questions have been
taken from your unit tests that you’ve taken this year. Some of the items below may involve
more than one question on the exam. That’s why there’s only 72 questions on the study guide
but 100 on the exam.
Introduction to A&P
1. What is the difference between anatomy and physiology?
Anatomy studies the structure of the body parts and their relations to one another and
physiology studies how body parts work and carry out life-sustaining activities.
2. What is the difference between a response and a stimulus?
A stilimus incites a reaction or response.
3. What is metabolism?
the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
4. What is homeostasis?
The body’s ability to maintain a relatively stable internal environment even
though the outside world (external environment) changes continuously.
5. List the basic units of organization in the body from smallest to largest.
atom -> molecuke or compund -> organelle -> cell -> tissue -> organ -> organ system -> organism
6. What is the difference between negative and positive feedback loops?
Negative feedback control systems are inhibitory. They oppose a change by creating a response
that is opposite in direction to the initial disturbance that activated the system.
7. Give three examples of each type of feedback loop.
8. How many sections are found in the abdominopelvic region of the human body?
9 regions and 4 quadrants
9. Identify the terms: buccal, cephalic, and inguinal.
10. Name and describe the four main planes of the human body.
11. What is bilateral symmetry?
12. Differentiate between the ventral and dorsal cavity.
13. Differentiate between the terms visceral and parietal.
14. Define the terms pleural, peritoneal, and pericardial.
15. What does the term lateral mean?
Histology
16. List examples of connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous tissue.
17. What is the difference between endocrine and exocrine glands of the body?
18. What is meant by stratified, simple, and pseudostratified epithelial tissue?
19. What is meant by squamous, cuboidal, and columnar tissue?
20. Differentiate between mucous and serous membranes.
21. Name the three types of muscle tissue and describe each.
22. What are tumors and neoplasms?
23. What is the difference between a benign and malignant tumor? (carcinoma vs. sarcoma)
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