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6. What is parthenogenesis?
during exam. Anyone found cheating in the exam will receive a zero
a. sexual reproduction.
grade.
b. reproduce by egg without fertilization by sperm (virgin birth).
c. reverse in sex during the lifetime of the organism.
1. What is hormone induces ovulation?
d. infertility.
a. follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
e. lesbianism.
b. melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH).
7. What is sequential hermaphroditism?
c. luteinizing hormone (LH).
a. change sex during the lifetime of an animal.
d. estrogen.
b. reproduce by egg without fertilization by sperm (virgin birth).
e. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).
c. asexual reproduction.
2. Which hormone stimulates the maturation of the reproductive
d. sexual reproduction.
follicles?
e. neuter (no sex).
a. follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
8. A male animal that changes sex into female later on in its lifetime
b. thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).
is called
c. melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH).
a. protogyny.
d. anti-diuretic hormone (ADH).
b. protandry.
e. oxytocin.
c. androgyny.
3. What induces menstruation?
d. asexual.
a. decrease in LH level.
e. parthenogenesis.
b. decrease in oxytocin level.
9. What is the permanent birth control procedure that cuts the vas
c. increase in progesterone level.
deferens?
d. decrease in progesterone level.
a. vasectomy.
e. decrease in FSH level.
b. angioplasty.
4. The phase in the ovarian cycle in which the ovarian follicles
c. tubal ligation.
mature is called
d. triple bypass operation.
a. secretory phase.
e. abortion.
b. menstrual flow phase.
10. What is reproduce without fertilization of the ovum by sperm
c. proliferative phase.
(virgin birth) called?
d. follicular phase.
a. cleavage.
e. luteal phase.
b. pathenogenesis.
5. Which of the following is a chemical contraceptive method?
c. hermaphroditism.
a. tubal ligation
d. gastrulation.
b. vasectomy
e. neurulation.
c. condom
d. I.U.D. (intrauterine device)
e. oral contractive

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11. What is resulting sex of the offsprings using pathenogenesis in
16. At six to eight weeks in the embryonic development in human, if a
reproduction?
particular hormone is not released for a genetic male, the gonads
a. All male.
will differentiate into female reproductive organs instead of male
b. All female.
organs. Which hormone is that?
c. Both male and female.
a. estrogen
d. Infertile with no specific sex.
b. progesterone
e. hermaphrodite.
c. testosterone
d. follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
12. A female animal that changes sex into male later on in its lifetime
e. human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
is called
a. protandry.
17. Which is the mode of reproduction in mammals?
b. androgyny.
a. oviparity.
c. asexual.
b. ovoviviparity.
d. protogyny.
c. viviparity.
e. parthenogenesis.
d. asexual reproduction.
e. fission.
13. What are the characteristics during the peak of human
physiological sexual response in both male and female?
18. Reproduction by fragmentation is a form of
a. relaxation.
a. sexual reproduction.
b. myocardiac infarction.
b. asexual reproduction.
c. fibrillation.
c. internal fertilization.
d. vasocongestion and myotonia.
d. external fertilization.
e. continence.
e. cloning.
14. Which mode of reproduction that fertilizes internally, and fetus
developed internally obtaining nourishment from the maternal
blood?
a. ovoviviparity.
b. parthenogenesis.
c. ovoparity.
d. viviparity.
e. hermaproditism.
15. When an earth worm is split into two, the two worms regenerate
and regrow the lost part is a form of
a. sexual reproduction.
b. asexual reproduction.
c. internal fertilization.
d. external fertilization.
e. cloning.

19. What is the stage of vertebrate development in which the zygote

divides into multiple cells without increasing in size?
a. fertilizaton.
b. cleavage.
c. gastrulation.
d. neurulation.
e. organogenesis.
20.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is the stage of development when organs are formed?

cleavage.
gastrulation.
neurulation.
fertilization.
organogenesis.

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21. What is the stage of vertebrate development in which the neural
26. What causes the plateau phase of a cardiac action potential? It is
groove forms into the neural tube?
caused by opening of
a. fertilizaton.
a. Na-channel.
b. cleavage.
b. K-channel.
c. gastrulation.
c. Ca-channel.
d. neurulation.
d. Mg-channel.
e. organogenesis.
e. Cl-Channel.
22. What is the developmental process in which the destiny of the cell
type is not determined until the later?
a. differentiation.
b. determination.
c. fertilization.
d. gastrulation.
e. fusion.
23.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What does contraction of the right ventricle do?

fill the ventricle.
fill the aorta.
pump blood the to systemic system.
pump blood to the pulmonary system.
fill the alveolar sac.

24.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is the function of the elasticity of the aorta?

fill blood to the ventricle.
pump blood to the lungs.
maintain the blood pressure so it does not drop to zero.
return blood from the vena cava.
causes the heart block.

25.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Pulmonary vein usually carries

oxygenated blood.
deoxygenated blood.
ECG.
renal fluid.
cardiac action potentials.

27.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What does the QRS-complex of the ECG correspond to?

atrial depolarization.
ventricular depolarization.
atrial repolarization.
ventricular repolarization.
aorta elasticity.

28.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

The T-wave of the ECG signal corresponds to

depolarization of the atria.
depolarization of the ventricles.
repolarization of the atria.
repolarization of the ventricles.
myocardiac infarction.

29.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is a heart attack?

arrthymia.
fibrillation.
heart block.
stroke.
myocardiac infarction.

30.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Which heart chamber pumps blood to the lungs in human heart?

right atrium
left atrium
right ventricle
left ventricle
aorta

31.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Where is the initialization zone that triggers a heartbeat?

AV (atrioventricular) node
SA (sinoatrial) node
Purkinje fibers at the bundle of His
carotid sinus
foramen ovale

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32. Where is AV node located?
a. right atrium.
b. between the atria and ventricules.
c. right ventricle.
d. left ventricle.
e. aorta.

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37. What does increasing the stroke volume do?
a. It will decrease the stroke volume.
b. It will decrease the heart rate.
c. It will decrease the cardiac output (CO).
d. It will increase the cardiac output (CO).
e. It will decrease the filling time.

33. What are the specialized electrically conducting fibers in the heart
that synchronize individual cardiac muscles contraction?
a. glial cells
b. Schwann cells
c. interneurons
d. motor neurons
e. Purkinje fibers
34.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is the function of the heart valves?

They prevent heart attack.
They prevent arrhythmia.
They contract the heart.
They prevent backflow of blood.
They regulate the heart rate.

35. If the heart beats irregularly (skip a beat), what is the condition
called?
a. heart attack.
b. arrhythmia.
c. stroke.
d. myocardiac infarction.
e. fibrillation.
36. During blood pressure monitoring using the pressure cuff, the
pressure in which the artery opens (which creates turbulence flow
that can be heard by the stethoscope) corresponds to the
a. systolic pressure.
b. diastolic pressure.
c. arrhythmia.
d. fibrillation.
e. myocardiac infarction.

38.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

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If there is a missing P-wave in the ECG, it means the heart is

deoxygenated.
fibrillating.
atrial arrhythmia.
needed a bypass.
not contracting.

39. When each of the cardiac muscle contracts asynchronously on its

own without a synchronized heart beat, what is it called?
a. stroke.
b. heart block.
c. anemia.
d. arrhythmia.
e. fibrillation.
40.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What are the receptor cells that monitor blood pressure?

CO2-receptors.
H+-receptors.
pH-receptors.
baroreceptors.
chemoreceptors.

41. Which of the following is true at the interface between the air and
alveolar sac?
a. Po2 in blood > Pco2 in tissue.
b. Po2 in air > Po2 in blood.
c. Pco2 in air > Pco2 in blood.
d. Po2 in blood < Po2 in tissue.
e. Po2 in air < Po2 in blood.

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42. What is the principle for breathing that sucks air into the lungs
47. What is the principle used to extract oxygen from the water in the
instead of pumping air into the lungs?
gills of fish?
a. positive pressure breathing.
a. positive pressure breathing.
b. negative pressure breathing.
b. negative pressure breathing.
c. counter-current exchange system.
c. counter-current exchange system.
d. concurrent exchange system.
d. concurrent exchange system.
e. active pump.
e. active pump.
43. What is gas exchange between blood in the capillaries and tissue
called?
a. external respiration.
b. internal respiration.
c. partial pressure of oxygen.
d. partial pressure of carbon dioxide.
e. negative pressure breathing.

48. What does shifting the oxygen dissociation curve to the left mean
for the fetal hemoglobin?
a. it can extract oxygen from the maternal hemoglobin.
b. it diminishes oxygen carrying capacity for the fetal hemoglobin.
c. it binds with carbon monoxide.
d. it binds with carbon dioxide.
e. it produces a counter-current exchange system.

44.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Which of the following is true?

The esophagus is located in front of the trachea.
The esophagus is located behind the trachea.
The larynx is located in nose.
The pharynx is located in the gills
The alveolar sac is located in the mouth.

45.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Why is artial fibrillation non-fatal? It is because

Atrium pumps blood to the lungs only.
Artial contraction is not necessary for pumping blood.
It would fatal because it does not pump blood to the body.
It only reduces the filling of the ventricle.
Ventricle is used to fill the artium.

49. How does the oxygen dissociation curve of hemoglobin tell us

about how fetal hemoglobin can increase oxygen carrying capacity
to extract oxygen from maternal blood?
a. It shifts the curve to the left.
b. It shifts the curve to the right.
c. It shifts the curve to the down.
d. It shifts the curve to the up.
e. It shifts the curve from a sigmoidal curve into a straight-line.

46.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is the function of hemoglobin molecule?

It delivers drug in circulatory system.
It is a hormone molecule.
It performs concurrent exchange.
It performs counter-current exchange.
It is oxygen carrier that increases the oxygen carrying capacity.

50. How is oxygen extracted from water by the gills of fish? It uses the
principle of
a. positive pressure breathing.
b. negative pressure breathing.
c. concurrent exchange system.
d. counter-current exchange system.
e. anaerobic metabolism.