Power Quiz

Welcome to the HESI A2 Anatomy & Physiology Practice Quiz!

This quiz comprises 30 questions with multiple choice answers. Aim for a score of 80% and above.

Let's see how well you fare, good luck!

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1. What makes up most plasma?

a) Oxygen

b) Protein

c) Water

d) ATP

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2. Two divisions that make up the nervous system?

a) Left ventricle and left atrium

b) Skull and ear

c) PNS & CNS (Peripheral & Central)

d) External auditory Canal & middle Ear

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3. Aerobic respiration takes place in?

a) Takes place in the cell membrane and transports molecules in and out of the cell

b) Energy and uses glucose, but produces less energy and does not require oxygen

c) Occurs in the nucleus and synthesizes proteins using amino acids

d) Mitochondria and requires oxygen and glucose to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy

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4. Ligaments provide which connection?

a) Hyoid bone

b) Bone to muscle

c) Bone to bone

d) Muscle to muscle

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5. What occurs when the sympathetic nervous system is stimulated / increased?

a) Stroke volume

b) Cardiac output

c) Osmosis

d) Haemoglobin

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6. What blood vessels perfuses (goes through) the kidney?

a) Hepatic portal vein

b) Carotid artery

c) Pulmonary artery

d) Renal vein

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7. Which organ is part of both the male reproductive system and urinary system?

a) Urethra

b) Oviduct

c) Kidney

d) Ureter

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8. When water molecules move across the cell membrane from high to low concentration, this procress is called?

a) Difussion

b) Osmosis

c) Manubrium

d) Evaporation

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9. Diffusion is?

a) A process where molecules move randomly in a solution

b) The transfer of heat between two objects at different temperatures

c) Movement of molecules or particles along a concentration gradient, high to low concentration

d) Active transport process

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10. In white blood cells, what contributes to phagocytosis?

a) Parathyroid hormone

b) Lactic acid

c) Macrophages and neutrophils

d) Oxygen

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11. Ribs are attached to the

a) Ureter

b) Manubrium

c) lumbar

d) Sternum

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12. Which hand position describes an anatomical position of a person who is standing erect with feet forward?

a) Sagittal

b) Vastus lateralis

c) Nose pointing anteriorly

d) Palms facing anterior

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13. What bones are formed first during intramembranous ossification?

a) Flat bones of the skull, the mandible, and the clavicles.

b) Sesamoid bones like the patella (kneecap).

c) Irregular bones like vertebrae and hip bones.

d) Long bones of the limbs, such as femur, tibia, and fibula

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14. Anaerobic respiration produces?

a) No energy production and does not involve glucose or oxygen

b) Energy and uses glucose, but produces less energy and does NOT require oxygen

c) Energy without using glucose and produces more energy but requires oxygen

d) Lactic acid

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15. The orthopedic surgeon informs you that you have broken the distal region of the humerus. What are is he describing?

a) Epiphysis

b) Manubrium

c) Red bone marrow

d) Ligament

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16. Types of asexual reproduction?

a) macrophages and neutrophils

b) sexual reproduction

c) estrogen and progesterone

d) binary fission and mitosis

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17. Polypeptides are?

a) Chains of amino acids

b) Synthesize protein

c) Includes estrogen and testosterone

d) Dna and rna

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18. Which statement are true about bone?

a) Chondrocytes (cartilage cells), articular cartilage (smooth covering at joints), medullary cavity (center of bone)

b) Ligaments (connect bone to bone), tendons (connect muscle to bone), synovial fluid (fluid in joints)

c) Osteoblasts (build up of bone), Epiphysial (end of bone), Diaphysis (shaft of bone)

d) Osteoclasts (break down of bone), Metaphysis (middle of bone), Periosteum (covering of bone)

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19. The olfactory nerve is associated in which sense?

a) Smell

b) Taste

c) Sight

d) Ear

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20. Where is the tibialis anterior muscle located?

a) Sternum

b) Foot

c) Shoulder

d) Lower leg

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21. Tissue repair is enhanced by a diet high in?

a) Lipid

b) Carbohydrate

c) Protein

d) Vitamin

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22. What is Meosis?

a) Is to make haploid gametes and production of germ cells.

b) The process of cell differentiation into specialized cell types

c) The process of combining two diploid cells to form a zygote

d) The process of cell division resulting in the formation of identical daughter cells

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23. What are like cells grouped together called?

a) Tissue

b) Cells

c) Plasma membrane

d) Protein

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24. The Rough ER functions in the human cells to?

a) Regulate blood

b) Adhere to cell surfaces

c) Synthesize proteins

d) Xiphloid process

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25. What is the function of golgi apparatus?

a) Blood clotting

b) Regulates balance and thermoregulation

c) Carry oxygen

d) packaging proteins for secretion and transports lipids around the cell

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26. The pulse point located behind the knee is palpated over which artery?

a) Popliteal

b) Lumbar

c) Dorsal

d) Thoracic

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27. Which bone does not articulate with any other bone?

a) Coccyx

b) Sacrum

c) Hyoid Bone

d) Ethmoid

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28. Which structure produces T-lymphocytes?

a) Pancreas

b) Thymus

c) Red bone marrow

d) Thyroid Gland

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29. Anaerobic respiration can lead to a burning sensation cause by which molecule?

a) Oxygen

b) Haemoglobin

c) Water

d) Lactic acid

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30. What is mitosis?

a) The process of cell fusion

b) the process of cell movement within an organism for tissue repair

c) The process of cell division

d) Chemical messengers

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