ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY AN
INTEGRATIVE APPROACH STUDY GUIDE
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS TESTED PREP MATERIAL
●● Identify the structural components included in the CNS and those in
the PNS.
Answer: Central Nervous System (CNS): includes both the brain and
spinal cord.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS): includes nerves (bundles of neuron
axons) and ganglia (clusters of neuron cell bodies along nerves).
●● central nervous system
Answer:
●● peripheral nervous system
Answer:
●● List the functional organization of the nervous system.
Answer: Sensory nervous system
Somatic sensory
,visceral sensory
Motor Neurons
somatic motor
autonomic motor
●● Sensory nervous system
Answer: responsible for receiving sensory information from receptors
that detect stimuli and transmitting this information to CNS.
●● somatic sensory
Answer: detect stimuli that we can consciously perceive (5 senses)
●● visceral or autonomic sensory
Answer: detect stimuli that we typically do not consciously perceive
(blood vessels and internal organs)
●● Motor Nervous System
Answer: responsible for initiating and transmitting motor output from
CNS to effectors.
●● somatic motor
, Answer: initiates and transmits motor output from the CNS to skeletal
muscle
●● autonomic motor
Answer: innervates and regulates cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and
glands without our conscious control.
●● Describe five distinguishing features common to all neurons.
Answer: excitability: the stimulus causes a local change in the resting
membrane potential in the excitable cell.
conductivity: involves an electrical change that is quickly propagated
along the plasma membrane as voltage gated channels open sequentially
during an action potential.
secretion: neurons release neurotransmitters in response to conductive
activity.
extreme longevity: neurons formed as a baby are still functional in the
elderly
Amitotic: during fetal development, mitotic activity is lost in most
neurons except the olfactory epithelium of the nose and parts of the
brain.
INTEGRATIVE APPROACH STUDY GUIDE
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS TESTED PREP MATERIAL
●● Identify the structural components included in the CNS and those in
the PNS.
Answer: Central Nervous System (CNS): includes both the brain and
spinal cord.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS): includes nerves (bundles of neuron
axons) and ganglia (clusters of neuron cell bodies along nerves).
●● central nervous system
Answer:
●● peripheral nervous system
Answer:
●● List the functional organization of the nervous system.
Answer: Sensory nervous system
Somatic sensory
,visceral sensory
Motor Neurons
somatic motor
autonomic motor
●● Sensory nervous system
Answer: responsible for receiving sensory information from receptors
that detect stimuli and transmitting this information to CNS.
●● somatic sensory
Answer: detect stimuli that we can consciously perceive (5 senses)
●● visceral or autonomic sensory
Answer: detect stimuli that we typically do not consciously perceive
(blood vessels and internal organs)
●● Motor Nervous System
Answer: responsible for initiating and transmitting motor output from
CNS to effectors.
●● somatic motor
, Answer: initiates and transmits motor output from the CNS to skeletal
muscle
●● autonomic motor
Answer: innervates and regulates cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and
glands without our conscious control.
●● Describe five distinguishing features common to all neurons.
Answer: excitability: the stimulus causes a local change in the resting
membrane potential in the excitable cell.
conductivity: involves an electrical change that is quickly propagated
along the plasma membrane as voltage gated channels open sequentially
during an action potential.
secretion: neurons release neurotransmitters in response to conductive
activity.
extreme longevity: neurons formed as a baby are still functional in the
elderly
Amitotic: during fetal development, mitotic activity is lost in most
neurons except the olfactory epithelium of the nose and parts of the
brain.
