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HESI A2 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS
Qs and Ans Expert- Explanation
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Question 1: What must be present for a muscle cell to contract?
Answer:
Calcium and ATP
Question 2: What protein composes the hair and skin?
Answer:
Keratin
Question 3: What is the ACTH hormone?
Answer:
Adrenocorticotropic hormone
Question 4: What is a tissue?
Answer:
A group of cells that act together to perform a specific function.
Question 5: What is muscle tissue classified as?
Answer:
Voluntary(skeletal muscles) and involuntary(smooth & cardiac)
Question 6: What is the FSH hormone?
Answer:
Follicle-stimulating hormone
Question 7: Where do the endocrine and nervous system meet?
Answer:
The hypothalamus and pituitary gland
Question 8: What are the two major groups of hormones?
Answer:
Steroid and nonsteroid
Question 9: What is the function of adductors?
Answer:
Return the limb back toward the body.
Question 10: What is the function of flexors?
Answer:
Reduce the angle at the joint.
Question 11: What structures make up muscle cells?
Answer:
Myofibrils made up of sarcomeres.
Question 12: What are the 3 major parts of the brain?
Answer:
Cerebrum Cerebellum Medulla Oblongata
Question 13: What two systems make up the nervous system?
Answer:
CNS-Central nervous system PNS-Peripheral nervous system
Question 14: How many bones make the skeletal column?
Answer:
33 bones
Question 15: What does the hypothalamus govern?
Answer:
The pituitary gland and is controlled by the feedback of hormones in the blood.Question 16: What hormones are released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary?
Answer:
Oxytocin (labor hormone) ADH-Antidiuretic hormone.
Question 17: How many cervical vertebrae in the skeletal column?
Answer:
7
Question 18: What is the epidermis?
Answer:
The outermost protective layer of dead keratinized epithelial cells.
Question 19: Where is the pituitary gland located?
Answer:
Attached to the hypothalamus by a stalk called the infundibulum.
Question 20: Why are the hormones of the adenohypophysis called
tropic hormones ?
Answer:
Because they act mainly on other endocrine glands.
Question 21: What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone?
Answer:
Osteoblasts
Question 22: How many thoracic vertebrae in the skeletal column?
Answer:
12
Question 23: What is the function of the antagonist?
Answer:
The muscles that executes the opposite movement of the prime mover.
Question 24: What makes up the appendicular skeleton?
Answer:
the bones of the girdle and limbs
Question 25: What are the bones of the cranium?
Answer:
single occipital frontal ethmoid sphenoid paired parietal temporal ossicles
Question 26: How do muscles make movement?
Answer:
Contraction in response to nervous stimulation.
Question 27: What are the layers of the epidermis?
Answer:
Corneum Lucidum Granulosum Germivatum ( basale & spinosum)
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