Nervous System Quiz 153 (20 MCQs)

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1. Combining form that means head

Correct Answer: B) Cephal/o.

2. Muscles that are not under your conscious control. Responsible for activities such as breathing, digesting food and your heart beating.

Correct Answer: A) Involuntary Muscles.

3. Cranial nerve X is .....

Correct Answer: B) Vagus.

4. What do you call the passageway for air and food?

Correct Answer: A) Pharynx.

5. The main control center in an animal body; part of the central nervous system.

Correct Answer: A) Brain.

6. Which of the cerebral lobes is responsible for Auditory perception.

Correct Answer: A) Temporal.

7. Neurotransmitters are released in a synapse and bind to:

Correct Answer: D) Receptors on the postsynaptic neuron.

8. ..... on your tongue help with taste

Correct Answer: A) Chemoreceptors.

9. Which disease is Not an X-linked disease?

Correct Answer: A) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

10. This lobe controls voluntary muscles, emotions, reasoning.

Correct Answer: C) Frontal.

11. Identify parts of the EYE (area)

Correct Answer: D) Blind spot.

12. What division of the nervous system contains your cranial and spinal nerves?

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral Nervous System.

13. The Nervous System is divided into two parts called

Correct Answer: A) The Central Nervous System & The Peripheral Nervous System.

14. Which section of the PNS consists of nerves that go to cardiac and smooth muscles, as well as glands and other tissues in the body?

Correct Answer: A) Autonomic PNS.

15. Supporting cells that use phagocytosis to get rid of cellular debris and bacteria are called

Correct Answer: C) Microglial cells.

16. Tendons attach muscle to bone

Correct Answer: B) True.

17. Defect of the spinal column in which the spinal cord and / or it's covering protrude outside the vertebrae.

Correct Answer: B) Spina Bifida.

18. What is the function of oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) They form the myelin sheath around nerve fibers.

19. The spinal cord is the extension of

Correct Answer: C) Medulla.

20. What are bones made of?

Correct Answer: D) Bone tissue.