Animal Physiology. Fourth Edition
By Richard Hill
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PART I: Fundamentals of Physiology
1 — Animals and Environments
2 — Molecules and Cells
3 — Genomics and Proteomics
4 — Development and Epigenetics
5 — Transport of Solutes and Water
PART II: Food, Energy, and Temperature
6 — Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
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7 — Energy Metabolism
8 — Aerobic and Anaerobic Metabolism
9 — Energetics of Aerobic Activity
10 — Thermal Relations
11 — Mammals in Cold Environments (Case Study)
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PART III: Integrating Systems
12 — Neurons
13 — Synapses
14 — Sensory Processes
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15 — Nervous System Organization & Biological Clocks
16 — Endocrine Physiology
17 — Reproduction
18 — Animal Navigation (Case Study)
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PART IV: Movement and Muscle
19 — Control of Movement
20 — Muscle
21 — Muscle Plasticity (Case Study)
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PART V: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Transport
22 — Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Basics
23 — Breathing (External Respiration)
24 — Gas Transport in Blood
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25 — Circulation
26 — Diving Physiology (Case Study)
PART VI: Water, Salts, and Excretion
27 — Water and Salt Physiology (Basics)
28 — Water and Salt in Environments
29 — Kidneys and Excretion
30 — Desert Mammals (Case Study)
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Test Bank
to accompany
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition
Hill • Wyse • Anderson
Chapter 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
TEST BANK QUESTIONS
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Multiple Choice
1. Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
b. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
c. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
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d. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists
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would study its
a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. ecology.
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d. cell physiology.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
3. The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
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a. Evolution
b. Cell physiology
c. Morphology
d. Ecology
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
4. In the study of physiology, the term “ ” refers to the components of living
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animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as
they do.
a. feedback
b. regulation
c. natural selection
d. mechanism
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Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
5. How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
a. Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
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b. Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
c. ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
d. Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.
Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
6. Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the
firefly?
a. Oxygen
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b. ATP
c. Light
d. Luciferin
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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7. In the firefly, light is emitted when
a. ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
b. released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
c. the electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
d. luciferase is activated by oxygen.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions
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