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Test 1

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Question 1

Your answer is CORRECT.

The contemporary model for cell membrane structure is called
a)
the double layer.
b)
the butter sandwich.
c)
the fluid mosaic.
d)
the phospholipid mosaic.
e)
the plasmalemma.
Question 2

Your answer is CORRECT.

Which of the following is not a function of the cell membrane?
a)
physical isolation
b)
regulation of exchange with the environment
c)
cellular motility
d)
communication between the cell and its environment
e)
structural support
Question 3

Your answer is CORRECT.

Which of the following terms is not used to define the structure that separates the
contents of a human
cell from its surrounding medium?
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a)
a cell wall
b)
a cell membrane
c)
plasma membrane
d)
plasmalemma
e)
All of the above are used.
Question 4

Your answer is CORRECT.

Integral proteins extend all the way across the cell membrane.
a)
True
b)
False
Question 5

Your answer is INCORRECT.

The law of mass balance states
a)
total amount of substance X in the body = intake + production - output.
b)
if the amount of a substance in the body is to remain equal, any loss must be
offset by an equal
gain.
c)
total amount of substance X in the body = intake - production - output.
d)

Both [a] & [b]

e)
Both [b] & [c]
Question 6

Your answer is INCORRECT.

When body temperature rises, a center in the brain initiates physiological
changes to decrease the body
temperature. This is an example of
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a)
negative feedback.
b)
positive feedback.
c)
homeostatic regulation.
d)
diagnostic regulation.
e)
disease.
Question 7

Your answer is INCORRECT.

Which of the following descriptions of movement of molecules across the plasma
membrane is correct?
a)
If two similar molecules can both combine with the same carrier, the presence of
one of these
molecules decreases the rate of entry of the other.
b)
In simple diffusion, the rate of transport of a molecule is directly proportional to
the molecule's
extracellular concentration.
c)
When a carrier becomes saturated, the maximum rate of transport is reached.

d)
Two of these answers.
e)
All of these answers.
Question 8

Your answer is CORRECT.

Which of the following does not influence membrane permeability?
a)
the size of the diffusing molecule
b)
the thickness of the lipid bilayer
c)
the lipid solubility of the diffusing molecule
d)
the composition of the lipid bilayer
Question 9

Your answer is INCORRECT.

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The passive movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an

area of lower
concentration across a phospholipid membrane can be best described by:
a)
active transport.
b)
passive transport.
c)
simple diffusion.
d)
diffusion.
Question 10

Your answer is INCORRECT.

Facilitated diffusion:

a)
involves a carrier molecule.
b)
requires energy expenditure.
c)
is how glucose enters the cells.
d)
both [a] and [c] above.
e)
all of these answers.
Question 11

Your answer is CORRECT.

With active transport, ATP energy is used in the phosphorylationdephosphorylation cycle of the carrier.
a)
True
b)
False
Question 12

Your answer is INCORRECT.

With secondary active transport, energy is directly required by the carrier to move
a substance uphill
against a concentration gradient.
a)
True
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b)
False
Question 13

Your answer is INCORRECT.

Which of the following defines the term competition?
a)

movement of molecules by the use of vesicles

b)
the energy required to move molecules
c)
a group of carrier proteins operating at their maximum rate
d)
a carrier protein can bind different but chemically similar substrates
e)
carrier transport of a group of closely related molecules
Question 14

Your answer is CORRECT.

The means by which a cell transports large molecules out of the cell is called
a)
phagocytosis.
b)
endocytosis.
c)
exocytosis.
d)
diffusion.
e)
active transport.
Question 15

Your answer is CORRECT.

Osmosis is a type of:
a)
carrier-mediated transport.
b)
diffusion.

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a)
True
b)

False
Question 19

Your answer is INCORRECT.

At the resting membrane potential of a neuron:
a)
the membrane is more permeable to K
+

than to Na

.
b)
the membrane is more permeable to Na
+

than to K

.
c)
Cl
-

is at its equilibrium potential.

d)
both [a] and [c] above.
e)
both (b) and (c) above.
Question 20

Your answer is CORRECT.

Which term below best describes an excitable tissue when a resting membrane
potential is present?
a)
polarized.
b)
depolarized.
c)
hyperpolarized.
d)

repolarized.
e)
nonpolarized.
Question 21

Your answer is CORRECT.

Gap junctions
a)
are protein channels that create cytoplasmic bridges between two adjacent cells.
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b)
During conduction by local current flow, there is a flow of current between the
active and adjacent
inactive area of the cell membrane, thereby decreasing the potential in the
inactive area to threshold.
c)
The action potential jumps from one Schwann cell to the adjacent Schwann cell
in a myelinated
fiber.
d)
Saltatory conduction is faster than conduction by local current flow.
e)
Conduction by local current flow is the method of propagation in unmyelinated
fibers.
Question 42

Your answer is CORRECT.

Myelinated axons conduct impulses much faster because:
a)
The myelin insulates the axon.
b)
Channels only have to open at the nodes.
c)
Voltage is not lost along myelinated areas.
d)

Of saltatory conduction.
e)
All of these answers.
Question 43

Your answer is INCORRECT.

After an action potential has occurred, there is more Na
+

inside the cell than outside the cell (before any

Na
+

-K
+

pump activity has taken place).

a)
True
b)
False
Question 44

Your answer is INCORRECT.

At an excitatory synapse:
a)
There is increased permeability of the subsynaptic membrane to both Na
+

and K

b)
continued EPSP generations.
c)
neuromodulator effects.
d)
increased neurotransmitter production.
e)
none of these answers.