Vett2 Review Questions #2

1. What is the fluid substance covering the brain and spinal cord?

2. What are the components of the DNA molecule?

3. What structures are derived from the neural crest cells of the embryo?

4. Where are the nerve cell bodies of the somatic afferent nerves

located?

5. What is the name of the large commissure of the brain hemispheres?

6. What are the parts of the telencephalon?

7. What structures are contained in the diencephalon?

8. Which of the pituitary hormones comes from the neurohypophysis?

9. The mesencephalon contains the quadrigeminal bodies and the anterior

colliculus transfer what sensation to the crebral cortex?

10. What is the physiological produce of the choroid plexus?

11. What is the thick fibrous part of the meninges attached to the

cranium?

12. What are the sensory efferent nerves of the spinal cord?

13. What is the common name for crainal nerve X?

14. What nerves make up the autonomic nervous system?

15. What is the postganglionic sympathetic synaptic substance?

16. What location on the spinal cord do the parasympathetic nerves

emerge?

17. What would be the reaction of stimulating the oculomotor nerve

parasympathetic branch to the eye?

18. What does adaptation of a nerve signify?

19. Proprioception would be related to what sensation?

20. What nerve supplies the posterior 1/3 of the tongue?

21. What is the function of the vestibular part of the inner ear?

22. Which structures are associated with the

vascular tunic of the eye?

23. What is mydriasis?

24. What is the eye reflex associated with touching the lids?

25. What are the units to measure the electrolytes of the body?

26. What is the photosensitive reactive substance of the retina?

27. What is the term used to describe the resting potential of the

nerve?

28. Which ion is pumped from the interior of a nerve cell to set up the

charge difference on the membrane?

29. What is the strong stimuli that causes an action potential to

develop?

30. What high energy molecule is necessary for the "sodium pump" action?

31. Olfactory bulbs are associated with which functional sense?

32. Visceral pain is transmitted to the CNS by which nerves?

33. What is the name of the proprioreceptor located in a muscle tendon?

34. The rostal part of the tongue innervated by cranial nerves VII and V

sense which of the following tastes?

35. What cranial nerve is called the olfactory nerve?

36. What bone of the skull has within the wall the petrous part of the

cochlear inner ear?

37. Which three bones are found in the middle ear?

38. What is the name of the physiological transducer found between the

scala tympany and the scala vestibuli responsible for sound

detection?

39. What is the name of the external auditory meatus?

40. What fluid surrounds the inner ear?

41. What duct transports fluid from the brain to the inner ear?

42. What cranial nerve is transmitting impulses from the cochlea to the

brain for sound interpretation?

43. The otolithic membrane of the semicircular canals contain what

mineral compound?

44. What part of the brain is connected with the semicircular canals to

coordinate movement?

45. What other sensory system is involved with balance besides the

semicircular canals of the ear?

46. What organ is derived from integument?

47. The integumentary system is responsible for what functions of the body?

48. What is the body covering of arthropods?

49. Beaks, hooves, horns, claws, nails, and quills are outgrowths of

of what skin layer?

50. What is the largest organ of the vertebrate body?

51. Melanin protects the skin from what energy source?

52. What substance is found in beaks, hooves, horns, claws, and nails?

53. What function of the skin aids in thermal regulation?

54. What area of the skin contains sweat glands?

55. Vitamin D is required for metabolism of what mineral?

56. What area of the epidermis is keratinized?

57. What layer lies beneath the epidermis?

58. What hormone is responsible for darkening the skin color?

59. What layer of the skin is sensitive to light?

60. What part of the skin layer contains the flattened keratin?

61. What layer of the skin is also known as the corium?

62. What cells gives color to the skin?

63. What term describes a horse with reddish coat and black mane and

tail?

64. Which part of the horses foot has a wide band at the top of the

hoof?

65. Which layer of the skin contains the sebaceous glands?

66. The pigmentation of the skin is a result of which cell type?

67. What glands of the skin produce waxy material?

68. Which equine color pattern is typified by a brown horse with black

mane and tail?

69. What is a function of smooth muscle in the skin?

70. The plasma membrane of a muscle cell is most like that of what other

type of cell?

71. What action allows a leg to extend?

72. What is another name for a muscle fiber?

73. Where is the gastrocnemius muscle located in the body?

74. Where on the body is the pectoralis major muscle located ?

75. Which band of the sacromere shortens during contraction?

76. What happens when a sarcomere shortens?

77. What is the consequence of muscle contraction?

78. What actions are occurring during muscle contraction?

79. What is the element specifically associated with muscle contraction?

80. What is the physiological consequence of muscle action?

81. The muscles of the body in rigor mortis lose their ability to do

what action?

82. What is the most immediate, but necessarily limited, source of

energy for reformation of ATP in muscle cells?

83. An active, nonfatiguing muscle would be expected to have what

physiological characteristics?

84. Muscle fatigue is a result of what consequence?

85. What is the normal consequence of muscle ATP action besides

shortening?

86. What substance is released by motor neurons to initiate a muscle

contraction?

87. A motor neuron and all the muscles under its control is called what

kind of unit?

88. What stimulates a muscle to contract?

89. What is the reciprocal innervations of reflexes between antagonistic

muscle pairs?

90. What is the name of the junction between the somatic nerve and the

skeletal muscle fiber?

91. What is the classification of a nerve leaving the CNS?

92. What is the name of the pain receptor nerve?

93. Which nerves are organ sensory nerves?

94. What taste modality cannot be sensed on the tongue?

95. Which cranial nerve is responsible for smell sensation?

96. What bone separates the olfactory bulbs of the brain from the nasal

cavity?

97. The conchal, annular, and tragus cartilage belong to what organ of

the animal body?

98. Which of the auditory ossicles attaches to the tympanic membrane?

99. What fluid surrounds the cochlea of the ear?

100. The utricle and saccule belong to what organ of the body?

101. Which nerve is responsible for balance in the body?

102. What portion of the cochlea is sensitive to sound energy?

103. What area of the cochlea is sensitive to high frequency sound waves?

104. What is the transparent membrane of the eye most anterior in

position?

105. The vascular tunic consists of what three structures?

106. Stimulation of the parasympathetic branch of the oculomotor nerve

will cause what response to the eye?

107. What photoreceptors are sensitive to color light energy?

108. What photochemical substance is reactive in the rods of

the retina?

109. Which ocular muscle will cause rotation of the globe?

110. Where on the orbit of the eye is the location of the nasolacrimal

duct?

111. What cell type is found in the deep layer of the skin known as

stratum basale?

112. What layer of the skin contains the pigment in a dark skinned animal?

113. What molecule is responsible for skin pigmentation?

114. What structures are located in the dermis of the skin?

115. What equine coat color is smokey blue with no white hairs?

116. What holocrine glands are derived from hair follicles?