Anatomy and Physiology Quiz 1

1. A miracle of modern science is the heart transplant. Doctors, using the still viable heart from a deceased person, can replace the heart of someone who has a bad or damaged heart. The doctors simply put the patient on life support, remove their heart, put the new one in and shock it back into rhythm. Why does electricity reactivate the heart?

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2. Which condition is marked by a low TSH?

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3. Which of these statements about the CNS is NOT true?

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4. If your spinal cord is damaged, why might you lose the ability to move your limbs?

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5. Which of these is an inflammatory condition?

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6. How will darkness affect melatonin secretion? Choose the best answer.

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7. When scientists compared the pineal glands of two birds, one nocturnal and the other diurnal, they noticed that the pineal gland of the nocturnal bird was smaller and less connected. Which hypothesis below supports this finding?

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