1. Metabolic acidosis can occur from ingesting too many basic substances or from chronic vomiting stomach
contents?
B) False
2. Edema is the accumulation of fluid in the interstitial fluid, not the intracellular fluid?
A) True
3. The vagina’s acidic pH is helpful for sperm to produce energy and be motile?
B) False
4. Both hypernatremia and hyponatremia will lead to cardiac arrhythmias?
B) False
5. This is the smallest region of the small intestine and receives the chyme, bile, and pancreatic juices?
D) Duodenum
6. What is NOT a change in a female’s body during pregnancy?
D) The stomach enlarges allowing for more digestion to occur
7. Luteinizing hormone within the female reproductive system directly influences what process?
C) Ovulation of the oocyte
8. What is NOT true of the dilation phase of delivery?
A) It is when the mom actively pushes the baby out
9. Atrial natriuretic peptide ultimately decreases blood pressure by increasing the excretion of sodium ions
within the kidneys?
A) True
10. What statement is NOT true of the testes?
D) There is only one spermatic cord for both testes
11. What is NOT true of the large intestine?
A) It will absorb remaining water from indigestible food
C) It contains circular folds to assist with increasing the surface area of the large intestine
, 12. The majority of chemical digestion occurs in which region of the digestion system?
A) Small intestine
13. Only hypokalemia can lead to cardiac arrthmias?
B) False
14. What is NOT an anatomical feature to the small intestine to allow for increased surface area?
A) Small pits and glands within the mucosa
15. Capacitation must occur first for the acrosomal reaction to occur?
A) True
16. What is NOT a function of lipids in our body?
C) Used as the body’s primary source of energy
17. In healthy kidneys, what is not a common substance filtered out of the glomerulus?
D) Proteins
18. A vasectomy is a medical procedure where the epididymis is cut and the ends are cauterized to prevent
the passage of sperm within the male reproductive system?
B) False
19. The gallbladder’s role within the digestive system is to:
C) Store and concentrate bile
20. The uterine cycle is regulated directly by follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone?
B) False
21. The mouth allows for the processes of chemical and mechanical digestion?
A) True
22. Embryonic development consists of the three germ layers forming and ultimately developing into all of
the organs of the body.
A) True
23. The acrosome of a sperm:
C) Contains enzymes that allow the sperm to penetrate the egg