CON PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

CON PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

◍ What is the function of some nonsteroid hormones?.
Answer: Serve as protein hormones.
◍ Where are nutrients absorbed?.
Answer: Through the walls of the small intestine.
◍ Which gland is considered the "master gland"?.
Answer: The pituitary gland
◍ What structures produce saliva?.
Answer: Three pairs of salivary glands
◍ What bones make up the lower extremities?.
Answer: femurtibiafibulatarsals (ankle bones)metatarsals (foot
bones)phalanges (toe bones)
◍ What occurs in muscle fibers during contraction?.
Answer: Myosin & actin filaments slide together.
◍ What is the effect of steroid hormones?.
Answer: Enter the cell and have a direct effect on the DNA of the nucleus.
◍ What is the function of the respiratory system?.
Answer: Supply O2 and eliminate CO2
◍ What are the two major groups of hormones?.
Answer: Steroid and nonsteroid
◍ What is chyme?.
Answer: Soupy substance resulting from the stomach churning and mixing
the bolus.
◍ What two systems make up the nervous system?.

, Answer: CNS-Central nervous systemPNS-Peripheral nervous system
◍ What is the STH or GH hormone?.
Answer: Growth Hormone
◍ What is the function of adductors?.
Answer: Return the limb back toward the body.
◍ How is the structure of the walls of arteries?.
Answer: Thick and elastic in order to carry blood under high pressure
◍ What protein composes the hair and skin?.
Answer: Keratin
◍ What are causes vasoconstriction and vasodilation?.
Answer: The contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle in the arterial
walls.
◍ What hormones control testicular activity?.
Answer: FSH-regulates sperm productionLH (Intersitial cell stimulating
hormone)-stimulates testosterone production.
◍ Where are sperm stored once mature?.
Answer: In the epididymis of each testis.
◍ What is the difference between reproductive activity between men and
women?.
Answer: Reproductive activity is cyclic in women, but continuous in men.
◍ What is a cardiac cycle?.
Answer: The period from the end of the next ventricular contraction to the
end of the next ventricular contraction.
◍ What is the function of the heart?.
Answer: Sends blood to lungs for oxygenation through the pulmonary
circuit & to the remainder of the body through the systemic circuit.
◍ How many bones make up the axial skeleton?.
Answer: 28 bones of the skull. 14-facial, 14-cranium.

, ◍ What are the four main layers of the digestive system?.
Answer: From innermost to outer:Mucous membraneSubmucous
layerMuscular layerSerous layer
◍ What is the epidermis?.
Answer: The outermost protective layer of dead keratinized epithelial cells.
◍ What is the function of the prime mover?.
Answer: The muscle that executes a given movement.
◍ What is the FSH hormone?.
Answer: Follicle-stimulating hormone
◍ What are hormones?.
Answer: Chemical messengers controlling growth, differentiation &
metabolism of cells.
◍ What bones make the os coxae?.
Answer: fused iliumischiumpubis
◍ What do apocrine sweat glands produce?.
Answer: Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm from cells, attracting bacteria
that produces body odor.
◍ What is the function of LH?.
Answer: Stimulate ovulation and the conversion of the corpus to the corpus
luteum.
◍ What is muscle tissue classified as?.
Answer: Voluntary(skeletal muscles) and involuntary(smooth & cardiac)
◍ What makes up the PNS?.
Answer: All the nerves that transmit information to and from the CNS.
◍ What is the final product produced by the nephrons?.
Answer: Urine
◍ What is the enzyme in saliva that starts complex carb digestion?.
Answer: Amylase