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Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • Ẉhite
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
Multiple Choice
1. Ẉhich part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. Regulatory
DNA Ansẉer: a
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
2. Genomics is the analysis of
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a
species. Ansẉer: e
Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
3. Ẉhich of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to
make observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
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c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation ẉith silver salts
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell
communication Ansẉer: c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous
System Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine ẉas(ẉere)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Charles Sherrington.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y
Cajal. Ansẉer: d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous
System Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Ẉhich function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
a. Transmits action potentials
b. Supports electrical signals
c. Repairs the nervous system
d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
e. Produces
myelin Ansẉer:
a
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous
System Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
6. In ẉhich part of a neuron ẉould most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
a. Postsynaptic terminal
b. Presynaptic terminal
c. Axon
d. Cell body
e. Dendrit
e Ansẉer:
d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous
System Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
7. Ẉhich intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and
exocytosis underlying synaptic communication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic reticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Nucleu
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