Test Bank to accompany Neuroscience, Sixth Edition Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System Multiple Choice 1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA? a. Exon b. Intron c. Promoter d. Non-coding DNA...
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Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System ko ko ko ko ko
Multiple Choice ko
1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
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a. Exon
b. Intron
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Answer: a
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TextbookReference: Genetics and Genomics
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
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2. Genomics is the analysis of ko ko ko ko
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
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b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
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c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
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d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
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e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species. A
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nswer: e ko
TextbookReference: Genetics and Genomics
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Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to make
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observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
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a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine ko ko ko ko
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus ko ko ko ko ko ko ko
c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
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e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko k o
Answer: c ko
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
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4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
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a. Camillo Golgi. ko
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal. ko ko ko
c. Charles Sherrington. ko
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. ko ko ko ko ko ko k o
Answer: d ko
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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5. Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
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a. Transmits action potentials ko ko
b. Supports electrical signals ko ko
c. Repairs the nervous system ko ko ko
d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system ko ko ko ko ko
e. Producesmyelin o
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Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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6. In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
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a. Postsynapticterminal ko
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c. Axon
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e. Dendrite
Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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7. Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosis u
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nderlying synaptic communication? o
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a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmicreticulum o
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c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgiapparatus ko
e. Nucleus
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c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding ko ko ko
8. Most neurons have ko ko
a. one axon hillock (initial segment).
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b. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments). ko ko ko ko
c. onedendrite. ko
d. one axon hillock (initial segment) and one dendrite.
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e. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments) and one dendrite.
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Answer: a ko
Textbook Reference: Neurons ko ko
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9. Which statement best describes the function of a neuron with multiple, highly b
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ranched dendrites and one axon? ko ko ko ko
a. It passes information directly to multiple neurons.
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b. It cannot integrate information from multiple neurons.
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c. It receives information from only one other neuron.
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d. It integrates information from many neurons.
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e. The information it receives will not be relayed.
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Answer: d ko
Textbook Reference: Neurons ko ko
Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying ko ko ko
10. Which statement best describes most neurons? ko ko ko ko ko
a. They receive information via axons.
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b. They transmit information to other cells via dendrites.
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c. They are polarized. ko ko
d. Theyconduct signals bidirectionally.
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e. They transmit electrical signals via cytoplasmic continuity.
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Answer: c ko
Textbook Reference: Neurons ko ko
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11. Compared with projection neurons, axons of local circuit neurons (interneurons) ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko
a. are longer.ko
b. areshorter. ko
c. have more synapses. ko ko
d. have more branches. ko ko
e. reach more postsynaptic neurons. ko ko ko k o
Answer: b ko
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding ko ko ko
12. An action potential is a(n)
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change in the electrical potential across the nerve cell membrane.
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a. single
b. all-or-nothing
c. permanent
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Answer: b
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13. The part of a synapse to which the contents of synaptic vesicles bind is called the
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a. presynapticterminal. o
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b. synaptic ending. o
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