APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
What is the difference between anatomy and physiology? -
Correct Answer ✅Anatomy is the study of the structure of
body parts, whereas physiology is the study of the function of
body parts
What are the levels of organization? - Correct Answer
✅subatomic particles, atom, molecule, macromolecule,
organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
What are the requirements of life? - Correct Answer
✅Water, food, oxygen, heat, pressure
What are the characteristics of life? - Correct Answer
✅Movement (internal or gross); Responsiveness (reaction to
internal or external change); Growth (increase in size without
change in shape); Reproduction (new organisms or new
cells); Respiration (use of oxygen; removal of CO2); Digestion
(breakdown of food); Absorption (movement of substances
through membranes and into fluids); Circulation (movement
within body fluids); Assimilation (changing nutrients into
chemically different forms); Excretion (removal of metabolic
wastes)
,APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Define homeostasis - Correct Answer ✅Body's maintenance
of a stable environment
What is a homeostatic mechanism? - Correct Answer ✅the
body maintains homeostasis through a number of self-
regulating control systems; examples are regulating body
temperature and pressure sensitive receptors to regulate
body pressure
Define matter - Correct Answer ✅Anything that takes up
space and has mass (weight). It is composed of elements.
Define element - Correct Answer ✅fundamental substance
composed of chemically identical atoms
Define atoms - Correct Answer ✅smallest particle of an
element; basic unit of matter
,APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
What is the structure of an atom? - Correct Answer ✅An
atom consists of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons,
with electrons in
Proton - Correct Answer ✅subatomic particle that has a
positive charge
Neutron - Correct Answer ✅subatomic particle that has no
charge
Electron - Correct Answer ✅subatomic particle that has a
negative charge
Atomic number - Correct Answer ✅number or protons in
nucleus
, APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Atomic mass - Correct Answer ✅number of protons plus
number of neutrons
What are covalent bonds? - Correct Answer ✅Covalent
bonds are formed when atoms share electrons to become
stable with filled
outer shells
What are ionic bonds? - Correct Answer ✅2 oppositely
charged atoms form this bond when electrons are transferred
from one atom to another atom
What are hydrogen bonds? - Correct Answer ✅Weak
attraction between positive end of one polar molecule and
negative end of another polar molecule; formed between
water molecules
Define ion - Correct Answer ✅When atoms gain or lose
electrons, they become ions.
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