1. Which of the following statements about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is one of biology’s most integrative disciplines.
b. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s hist
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1. Which of the following statements about the discipline of physiology is false?
a. It is one of biology’s most integrative disciplines.
b. It is a key discipline for understanding how animals change over Earth’s history.
c. It is a key discipline for understanding the fundamental biology of all animals.
d. It is a key discipline for understanding human health and disease.
e. It is a key discipline for understanding the health and disease of nonhuman animals. Answer: b
Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology, p. 4 Bloom’s Category: 5. Evaluating
2. To understand how a fish propels itself by applying forces to the water, physiologists would study its
a. biomechanics.
b. evolution.
c. chemistry.
d. ecology.
e. cell physiology. Answer: a
Textbook Reference: The Importance of Physiology, p. 5 Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
3. 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.
a. feedback
b. regulation
c. natural selection
d. physiology
e. mechanism Answer: e
Textbook Reference: Mechanism and Origin: Physiology’s Two Central Questions, p. 5 Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
4. The data in the graph would be relevant to which subdiscipline of physiology?
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