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Neuroscience,hSixthhEdition
Purvesh•hAugustineh•hFitzpatrickh•hHallh•hLaMantiah•hMooneyh•hPlatth•hWhite
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
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MultiplehChoice
1. WhichhparthofhDNAhishtranscribedhintohmessengerhRNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-codinghDNA
e. RegulatoryhDNA
hAnswer:ha
TextbookhReference:hGeneticshandhGenomicshBloom’
shLevel:h2.hUnderstanding
2. Genomicshishthehanalysishof
a. codinghDNAhsequenceshforhahspecies.
b. regulatoryhDNAhsequenceshforhanhindividualhorganismhandhahspecies.
c. codinghandhregulatoryhDNAhsequenceshforhahspecies.
d. codinghandhregulatoryhDNAhsequenceshforhanhindividualh organism.
e. codinghandhregulatoryhDNAhofhanhindividualhorganismhorhahspecies.h
Answer:he
TextbookhReference:hGeneticshandhGenomicshBloom’
shLevel:h1.hRemembering
3. WhichhofhCamillohGolgi’shcontributionshenabledhSantiagohRamónhyhCajalhtohmakeh
observationshthathsuggestedhthathnervehcellsharehdiscretehentities?
a. Articulationhofhthehneuronhdoctrine
b. IdentifyinghthehorganellehlaterhcalledhthehGolgihapparatus
c. Developmenthofhahstaininghmethodhbasedhonhimpregnationhwithhsilverhsalts
d. Improvinghthehunderstandinghofhthehpathophysiologyhofhmalaria
e. Articulationhofhthehreticularhtheoryhofhnervehcellhcommunicationh
Answer:hc
TextbookhReference:hCellularhComponentshofhthehNervoushSystemhB
loom’shLevel:h2.hUnderstanding
4. Thehmajorhproponent(s)hofhthehneuronhdoctrinehwas(were)
a. CamillohGolgi.
b. SantiagohRamónh yhCajal.
c. CharleshSherrington.
d. SantiagohRamónh yhCajalhandhCharleshSherrington.
,e. CamillohGolgihandhSantiagohRamónhyhCajal.h
Answer:hd
TextbookhReference:hCellularhComponentshofhthehNervoushSystemhB
loom’shLevel:h1.hRemembering
5. Whichhfunctionhishahcharacteristichprimarilyhofhneuronshonly,handhnothglia?
a. Transmitshactionhpotentials
b. Supportshelectricalhsignals
c. Repairshthehnervoushsystem
d. Preventshregenerationhofhthehnervoushsystem
e. Produceshmyelin
hAnswer:ha
TextbookhReference:hCellularhComponentshofhthehNervoushSystemhB
loom’shLevel:h1.hRemembering
6. Inhwhichhparthofhahneuronhwouldhmosthofhthehendoplasmichreticulumhbehconcentrated?
a. Postsynaptichterminal
b. Presynaptichterminal
c. Axon
d. Cellhbody
e. Dendrite
hAnswer:hd
TextbookhReference:hCellularhComponentshofhthehNervoushSystemhB
loom’shLevel:h1.hRemembering
7. Whichhintracellularhcomponenthfacilitateshthehprocesseshofhendocytosishandhexocytosish
underlyinghsynaptichcommunication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmichreticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgihapparatus
e. Nucleus
hAnswer:hc
TextbookhReference:hCellularhComponentshofhthehNervoushSystemhB
loom’shLevel:h2.hUnderstanding
8. Mosthneuronshhave
a. onehaxonhhillockh(initialhsegment).
b. multiplehaxonhhillocksh(initialhsegments).
c. onehdendrite.
d. onehaxonhhillockh(initialhsegment)handhonehdendrite.
e. multiplehaxonhhillocksh(initialhsegments)handhonehdendrite.h
Answer:ha
TextbookhReference:hNeuronshBloom’
shLevel:h1.hRemembering
, 9. Whichhstatementhbesthdescribeshthehfunctionhofhahneuronhwithhmultiple,hhighlyh
branchedhdendriteshandhonehaxon?
a. Ithpasseshinformationhdirectlyhtohmultiplehneurons.
b. Ithcannothintegratehinformationhfromhmultiplehneurons.
c. Ithreceiveshinformationhfromhonlyhonehotherhneuron.
d. Ithintegrateshinformationhfromhmanyhneurons.
e. Thehinformationhithreceiveshwillhnothbehrelayed.h
Answer:hd
TextbookhReference:hNeuronshBloom’
shLevel:h3.hApplying
10. Whichhstatementhbesthdescribeshmosthneurons?
a. Theyhreceivehinformationhviahaxons.
b. Theyhtransmithinformationhtohotherhcellshviahdendrites.
c. Theyharehpolarized.
d. Theyhconducthsignalshbidirectionally.
e. Theyhtransmithelectricalhsignalshviahcytoplasmichcontinuity.h
Answer:hc
TextbookhReference:hNeuronshBloom’
shLevel:h3.hApplying
11. Comparedhwithhprojectionhneurons,haxonshofhlocalhcircuithneuronsh(interneurons)
a. arehlonger.
b. arehshorter.
c. havehmorehsynapses.
d. havehmorehbranches.
e. reachhmorehpostsynaptichneurons.h
Answer:hb
TextbookhReference:hNeurons
Bloom’shLevel:h2.hUnderstanding
12. Anhactionhpotentialhisha(n)h
changehinhthehelectricalhpotentialhacrosshthehnervehcellhmembrane.
a. single
b. all-or-nothing
c. permanent
d. random
e. unidirectional
hAnswer:hb
TextbookhReference:hNeuronshBloom’
shLevel:h1.hRemembering
13. Thehparthofhahsynapsehtohwhichhthehcontentshofhsynaptichvesicleshbindhishcalledhthe
a. presynaptichterminal.
b. synaptichending.
c. axonhterminal.