2012 Q2 mca bio practice
  • 1. What diagram shows smallest to largest?
A) Cell-> Tissue -> Organ-> Organ System
B) System-> Organ->Tissue->Cell
C) Cell->Organ ->Tissue->Organ System
D) Organ System->Tissue->Cell->Molecule
  • 2. Which of these pairs gives structural support for a human?
A) Brain and nerves
B) Skin and blood
C) Spine and heart
D) Bones and muscles
  • 3. Which three human body systems work together to cause an arm to move?
A) Digestive, nervous, circulatory
B) respiratory, muscular, skeletal
C) Nervous, muscular, skeletal
D) Skeletal, circulatory, immune
  • 4. As a person exercises, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the blood increase. This causes the nervous system to signal the ________________systems to respond.
A) Immune and respiratory
B) Respiratory and circulatory
C) Digestive and immune
D) Circulatory and endocrine
  • 5. Why do we give a person a vaccine?
A) To introduce chemicals that destroy viruses.
B) To cure a disease.
C) To stimulate and immune response
D) To prevent inflammation.
  • 6. Which of the following best explains how an enzyme functions in a cell?
A) One enzyme can catalyze many reactions
B) Enzymes are moved to substrates by the ribosomes
C) Different enzymes are made in different areas of the cytoplasm.
D) Enzymes bind to substrates for the catalyzed reactinon
  • 7. A cell from heart muscle would probably have an unusually high number of
A) vacuoles
B) Golgi bodies
C) mitochondria
D) lysosomes
  • 8. Eukaryotic cells are different than prockaryotic cells because eukaryotic cells
A) have permeable membranes
B) are much smaller
C) have a nucleus
D) have ribosomes
  • 9. What is the greatest danger to a patient who has had damage to the skin?
A) Infections in uncovered skin
B) Excessive muscle contractions in the damaged area
C) Loss of oils produced by the skin
  • 10. The main advantage of having hair on a creature is to
A) protects skin
B) provide mucus
C) conserve body heat
D) helps muscles
  • 11. What portion of skin changes color when you get a suntan?
A) Dead Dermis
B) Dermis
C) Epidermis
D) Subcuatneous layer
  • 12. Which of the following is not an accessory organ for the digestive system?
A) pancreas
B) gall bladder
C) Small intestine
D) liver
  • 13. Which organ filters blood that has collected wastes from cells throughout the body and maintains the homeostasis of body fluids?
A) Lungs
B) Stomach
C) Kidneys
D) Heart
  • 14. Where in the body does digestion first take place?
A) The stomach
B) the esophagus
C) The mouth
D) The Small Intestine
  • 15. Where in the body are most nutrients absorbed?
A) Small intestine
B) large intestine
C) mouth
D) stomach
  • 16. Gas exchange occurs in the
A) heart
B) capillaries
C) arteries
D) veins
  • 17. Which of the following structures stores urine before being expelled from the body?
A) ureters
B) urethra
C) Kidneys
D) urinary bladder
  • 18. Which of the following is not a skeletal muscle?
A) Biceps
B) Hamstring
C) Heart
D) Deltoid
  • 19. How does the diagphragm, a muscle under the lungs, change in order for a person to inhale?
A) Flattens and goes lower
B) Expands and goes lower
C) Expands and goes higher
D) Flattens and goes up
  • 20. The thyroid gland regulates which of the following
A) All of these
B) Growth
C) Development
D) Metabolism
  • 21. Sensory neurons can..
A) Carry impulses from outside and inside the body to the brain and spinal cord
B) Respond to a signal from the central nervous system
C) Process incoming impulses and pass them on to motor neurons
D) Carry responses away from the brin and spinal cord
  • 22. What part is part of the peripheral nervous system
A) nerves
B) brain
C) spinal chord
D) all of these
  • 23. Why is blood pumped through the lungs?
A) To oxygenate the blood
B) to add Carbon dioxide to the blood
C) to hydrate the blood
D) To get food
  • 24. Which portion of skin is where a pimple forms?
A) touch receptor
B) Hair follicle
C) subcutaneous layer
D) sweat gland
  • 25. Which of the following will food not pass directly through
A) pancreas
B) small intestine
C) stomach
D) esophagus
  • 26. How do nutrients which are absorbed by the small intestine, travel to the individual cells of the body?
A) nerve signals to body cells
B) small intestine to kidneys to dissolved fluids to body cells
C) small intestine to blood to circulatory system to body cells
D) small intestine to liver to lymphatic system to body cells
  • 27. Why is blood pumped through the lungs?
A) To enrich it with carbon dioxide
B) To give it white blood cells
C) To enrich it with oxygen
D) To give it water
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