6TH Edition Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick
Test Bank for Neuroscience, 34 Chapters
, Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience,Sixth Edition
Purves• Augustine• Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia• Mooney• Platt •
White
Chapter1: StudyingtheNervousSystem
MultipleChoice
1. Which partof DNA is transcribedinto messengerRNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. RegulatoryDNA
Answer:a
TextbookReference:Geneticsand Genomics
Bloom’sLevel:2. Understanding
2. Genomicsis theanalysisof
a. coding DNA sequences for species.
a
b. regulatoryDNA sequencesfor an individual organismand a species.
c. coding and regulatoryDNA sequencesfor aspecies.
d. coding and regulatoryDNA sequencesfor anindividual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a
species.
Answer:e
TextbookReference:Geneticsand Genomics
Bloom’s Level:1. Remembering
3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributionsenabled SantiagoRamón y Cajal to make
observations thatsuggestedthatnervecells are discrete entities?
a. Articulationof theneurondoctrine
b. IdentifyingtheorganellelatercalledtheGolgi apparatus
c. Developmentof a stainingmethodbasedon impregnationwithsilver salts
d. Improving theunderstanding ofthepathophysiologyof malaria
e. Articulationof the reticulartheoryof nervecell
communication
Answer:c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
,4. The major proponent(s)of theneurondoctrinewas(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. SantiagoRamón y Cajal.
c. CharlesSherrington.
d. SantiagoRamón y Cajal and CharlesSherrington.
, e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramóny Cajal.
Answer:d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Which function isa characteristic primarilyof neuronsonly, and not glia?
a. Transmitsactionpotentials
b. Supportselectricalsignals
c. Repairsthenervoussystem
d. Prevents regenerationof the nervous system
e. Producesmyelin
Answer:a
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
6. In which part of a neuronwouldmostof theendoplasmicreticulum beconcentrated?
a. Postsynapticterminal
b. Presynapticterminal
c. Axon
d. Cell body
e. Dendrite
Answer:d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
7. Which intracellularcomponentfacilitatestheprocessesof endocytosisand exocytosis
underlyingsynapticcommunication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmicreticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Nucleus
Answer:c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
8. Mostneuronshave
a. oneaxon hillock (initial segment).
b. multipleaxon hillocks (initial segments).
c. onedendrite.
d. oneaxon hillock (initial segment)and one dendrite.
e. multipleaxon hillocks (initial segments)and onedendrite.
Answer:a
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’sLevel:1. Remembering
Test Bank for Neuroscience, 34 Chapters
, Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience,Sixth Edition
Purves• Augustine• Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia• Mooney• Platt •
White
Chapter1: StudyingtheNervousSystem
MultipleChoice
1. Which partof DNA is transcribedinto messengerRNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. RegulatoryDNA
Answer:a
TextbookReference:Geneticsand Genomics
Bloom’sLevel:2. Understanding
2. Genomicsis theanalysisof
a. coding DNA sequences for species.
a
b. regulatoryDNA sequencesfor an individual organismand a species.
c. coding and regulatoryDNA sequencesfor aspecies.
d. coding and regulatoryDNA sequencesfor anindividual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a
species.
Answer:e
TextbookReference:Geneticsand Genomics
Bloom’s Level:1. Remembering
3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributionsenabled SantiagoRamón y Cajal to make
observations thatsuggestedthatnervecells are discrete entities?
a. Articulationof theneurondoctrine
b. IdentifyingtheorganellelatercalledtheGolgi apparatus
c. Developmentof a stainingmethodbasedon impregnationwithsilver salts
d. Improving theunderstanding ofthepathophysiologyof malaria
e. Articulationof the reticulartheoryof nervecell
communication
Answer:c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
,4. The major proponent(s)of theneurondoctrinewas(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. SantiagoRamón y Cajal.
c. CharlesSherrington.
d. SantiagoRamón y Cajal and CharlesSherrington.
, e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramóny Cajal.
Answer:d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Which function isa characteristic primarilyof neuronsonly, and not glia?
a. Transmitsactionpotentials
b. Supportselectricalsignals
c. Repairsthenervoussystem
d. Prevents regenerationof the nervous system
e. Producesmyelin
Answer:a
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
6. In which part of a neuronwouldmostof theendoplasmicreticulum beconcentrated?
a. Postsynapticterminal
b. Presynapticterminal
c. Axon
d. Cell body
e. Dendrite
Answer:d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
7. Which intracellularcomponentfacilitatestheprocessesof endocytosisand exocytosis
underlyingsynapticcommunication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmicreticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Nucleus
Answer:c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
8. Mostneuronshave
a. oneaxon hillock (initial segment).
b. multipleaxon hillocks (initial segments).
c. onedendrite.
d. oneaxon hillock (initial segment)and one dendrite.
e. multipleaxon hillocks (initial segments)and onedendrite.
Answer:a
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’sLevel:1. Remembering
