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WorksheetsAP FoP C1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 32mins
Which statement about the discipline of physiology is false?
It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals.
To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists would study its ______.
Biomechanics
Evolution
Ecology
Cell physiology
The data in the graph below would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
Evolution
Cell physiology
Morphology
Ecology
In the study of physiology, the term “_______” refers to the components of living animals and the interactions among those components that enable animals to perform as they do.
Feedback
Regulation
Natural selection
Mechanism
How is the light reaction in the firefly inhibited?
Mitochondria prevent oxygen from reacting with luciferyl-AMP.
Nitric oxide combines with oxygen to prevent reaction with luciferyl-AMP.
ATP is prevented from combining with luciferin.
Luciferase is prevented from catalyzing the reaction.
Which of the following is not needed in the mechanism of light production in the firefly?
Oxygen
ATP
Photons
Luciferin
In the firefly, light is emitted when
ATP combines with luciferin, forming luciferyl-AMP.
Released nitric oxide blocks the mitochondria’s use of oxygen.
The electron-excited product of O2 and luciferyl-AMP returns to its ground state.
Luciferase is activated by oxygen
Which of the following is considered the “on” switch for the light-emitting reaction of the firefly?
Oxygen
Luciferase
Nitric oxide
ATP
A physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution and is advantageous is called ______?
Adaptation
Natural selection
Adaptive significance
Evolution.
What is the adaptive significance of light emission in the firefly?
Female fireflies emit light in such a way that distinguishes their species
All fireflies emit light to lure prey
Male fireflies emit light to attract mates
Male fireflies emit light to evade predators
Which of the following is a similarity between an octopus and a fish?
The evolutionary adaptation of excellent vision
The mechanism of vision
The processing of visual signals before reaching the optic nerve
The neuroanatomy of the eye
Research in the field of _______ physiology emphasizes synthesis across levels of biological organization.
Evolutionary
Comparative
Environmental
Integrative
Which statement regarding animals is true?
There is no distinction between an animal and its environment.
Once adults, animals are structurally static.
All animals require energy to maintain their organization.
Body size is significant in the lives of only small animals.
Which of the following statements on animal cells is true?
are more exposed to the external environment.
are more exposed to the internal environment.
Fluctuate between exposure to the external environment and the internal environment
Turn over while being exposed to the internal environment
Which figure refers to a physiological trait that is regulated by an organism?
I
II
III
IV
A migrating salmon regulates its internal Cl– concentration, shown in figure _______, while conforming to water temperature, shown in figure _______.
I; II
II; I
II; IV
I; III
Figure _______ shows an animal’s regulation of its body temperature as the external temperature increases. Figure _______ shows no regulation of its body temperature as external temperature increases.
I; II
II; I
II; IV
II; III
Which statement regarding physiological conformity and regulation is true?
All animals will eventually conform
Animals are either regulators or conformers
An animal cannot be both an ion regulator and a temperature conformer
Conforming is more metabolically expensive than regulating
The functioning of regulatory mechanisms that automatically make adjustments to maintain internal constancy is called _________.
Conformity
Feedback
Homeostasis
Regulation
Physiological changes that occur by alteration of gene frequencies over the course of many generations are referred to as _______ changes.
Acute
Chronic
Evolutionary
Developmental
