HESI A2 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY EXAM
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
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1. What is histology?
Answer: The study of tissues
2. What is a tissue?
Answer: A group of cells that act together to perform a specific function.
3. What are the fundamental tissues?
Answer: Epithelial Connective
Muscle
Nerve
(Elephants Can Make News)
4. What is the function of epithelial cells?
Answer: Cover, line, and protect the body and the internal organs.
5. What is the function of connective tissue?
Answer: Framework of the body. Provides support and structure to organs.
,6. What is neuroglia?
Answer: The neurons and connective tissue cells that compose nerve tissue.
7. What ability does muscle tissue have?
Answer: Ability to contract and shorten.
8. What is muscle tissue classified as?
Answer: Voluntary(skeletal muscles) and involuntary(smooth & cardiac)
9. What is meiosis?
Answer: The cell division that takes place in the gonads, i.e. the ovaries and testes.
10. What two layers compose the skin?
Answer: Epidermis and dermis.
11. What is the epidermis?
Answer: The outermost protective layer of dead keratinized epithelial cells.
12. What is the dermis?
Answer: The underlying layer of connective tissue with blood vessels, nerve endings, and the associated
skin tissues.
13. What are the layers of the epidermis?
Answer: Corneum Lucidum
Granulosum
Germivatum ( basale & spinosum) Mnemonic
,Answer: Candy Lions Growl Great.
14. What does the protein pigment melanin protect against?
Answer: Radiation from the Sun
15. What is the dermis composed of?
Answer: Fibrous connective tissue with nerve endings, blood vessels, sensory nerve endings, hair
follicles, and glands.
16. What are the 2 types of sweat glands?
Answer: ecrine & apocrine
17. What do ecrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
18. What do apocrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm from cells, attracting bacteria that produces body odor.
19. What do sebaceous glands secrete?
Answer: They secrete sebum through the hair follicles, which lubricates the skin and prevents
drying.
, 20. What secretion produces oil?
Answer: Holocrine secretion.
21. What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence?
Answer: Becoming clogged and attracting bacteria.
22. What protein composes the hair and skin?
Answer: Keratin
23. What makes the body's framework?
Answer: Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
24. What are the functions of the skeletal system?
Answer: Support, movement, blood cell formation, protection of internal organs, detoxification, muscle
attachment, mineral storage. *A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
25. How are bones classified?
Answer: By shape. Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. What is histology?
Answer: The study of tissues
2. What is a tissue?
Answer: A group of cells that act together to perform a specific function.
3. What are the fundamental tissues?
Answer: Epithelial Connective
Muscle
Nerve
(Elephants Can Make News)
4. What is the function of epithelial cells?
Answer: Cover, line, and protect the body and the internal organs.
5. What is the function of connective tissue?
Answer: Framework of the body. Provides support and structure to organs.
,6. What is neuroglia?
Answer: The neurons and connective tissue cells that compose nerve tissue.
7. What ability does muscle tissue have?
Answer: Ability to contract and shorten.
8. What is muscle tissue classified as?
Answer: Voluntary(skeletal muscles) and involuntary(smooth & cardiac)
9. What is meiosis?
Answer: The cell division that takes place in the gonads, i.e. the ovaries and testes.
10. What two layers compose the skin?
Answer: Epidermis and dermis.
11. What is the epidermis?
Answer: The outermost protective layer of dead keratinized epithelial cells.
12. What is the dermis?
Answer: The underlying layer of connective tissue with blood vessels, nerve endings, and the associated
skin tissues.
13. What are the layers of the epidermis?
Answer: Corneum Lucidum
Granulosum
Germivatum ( basale & spinosum) Mnemonic
,Answer: Candy Lions Growl Great.
14. What does the protein pigment melanin protect against?
Answer: Radiation from the Sun
15. What is the dermis composed of?
Answer: Fibrous connective tissue with nerve endings, blood vessels, sensory nerve endings, hair
follicles, and glands.
16. What are the 2 types of sweat glands?
Answer: ecrine & apocrine
17. What do ecrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
18. What do apocrine sweat glands produce?
Answer: Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm from cells, attracting bacteria that produces body odor.
19. What do sebaceous glands secrete?
Answer: They secrete sebum through the hair follicles, which lubricates the skin and prevents
drying.
, 20. What secretion produces oil?
Answer: Holocrine secretion.
21. What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence?
Answer: Becoming clogged and attracting bacteria.
22. What protein composes the hair and skin?
Answer: Keratin
23. What makes the body's framework?
Answer: Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
24. What are the functions of the skeletal system?
Answer: Support, movement, blood cell formation, protection of internal organs, detoxification, muscle
attachment, mineral storage. *A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
25. How are bones classified?
Answer: By shape. Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
*LEMURS SING SALSA FOR INDIANS*
